Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 290 pages |
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... sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expression , " a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though ...
... sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expression , " a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though ...
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Par- thenon , and the remains ... sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Civil and natural history , the nistory of art and of lit- - erature , must ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Par- thenon , and the remains ... sculpture , or of pictures , addresses . Civil and natural history , the nistory of art and of lit- - erature , must ...
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... sculpture in the memory is not without pre - established harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray . We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed of that divine idea which ...
... sculpture in the memory is not without pre - established harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray . We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed of that divine idea which ...
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... sculpture is all melted away , as if it had been statues of ice ; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remain- ing , as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts , in June and July . For the genius ...
... sculpture is all melted away , as if it had been statues of ice ; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remain- ing , as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts , in June and July . For the genius ...
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... sculpture , creation is driven into a corner . I cannot hide from myself that there is a certain appearance of paltriness , as of toys , and the trumpery of a theatre , in sculpture . Nature transcends all our moods of thought , and its ...
... sculpture , creation is driven into a corner . I cannot hide from myself that there is a certain appearance of paltriness , as of toys , and the trumpery of a theatre , in sculpture . Nature transcends all our moods of thought , and its ...
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