Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 290 pages |
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Page 20
... beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expression , " a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of ...
... beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expression , " a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of ...
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... and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Civil and natural history , the nistory of art and of lit- - erature , must be explained from individual history , HISTORY . 21.
... and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Civil and natural history , the nistory of art and of lit- - erature , must be explained from individual history , HISTORY . 21.
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... beauty . In like manner , all public facts are to be individual- ized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender ...
... beauty . In like manner , all public facts are to be individual- ized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender ...
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... beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , of vir- tue , and of life , which we call Spontaneity or Instinct . We denote ...
... beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , of vir- tue , and of life , which we call Spontaneity or Instinct . We denote ...
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... beauty , and lose my sadness . I pack my trunk , embrace my friends , embark on the sea , and at last wake up in Naples , and there beside me is the stern fact , the sad self , unrelenting , identical , that I fled from . I seek the ...
... beauty , and lose my sadness . I pack my trunk , embrace my friends , embark on the sea , and at last wake up in Naples , and there beside me is the stern fact , the sad self , unrelenting , identical , that I fled from . I seek the ...
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