The International Studio, Volume 66Offices of the International Studio, 1919 |
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Page ciii - IN the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said: — Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
Page 72 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Page xxii - When I, who knew him in mean circumstances, have been in his splendid palace, he would himself be in admiration how he arrived at it ; nor was it his value or inclination for splendid furniture and the curiosities of the age, but his elegant lady could endure nothing mean, or that was not magnificent. He was very negligent himself, and rather so of his person, and of a philosophic temper. "What a to-do is here!" would he say, " I can lie in straw with as much satisfaction.
Page xlii - A man who is not German knows nothing of Germany. We are morally and intellectually superior to all, without peers. ... In a world of wickedness we represent love, and God is with us.
Page xv - ... composed; and here we touch the controlling basis of all art: — organisation. Organisation is the use put to form for the production of rhythm. The first step in this process is the construction of line, line being the direction taken by one or more forms. In purely decorative rhythm the lines flow harmoniously from side to side and from top to bottom on a given surface. In the greatest art the lines are bent forward and backward as well as laterally so that, by their orientation in depth,...
Page xv - Last, form reveals itself, not as an objective thing, but as an abstract phenomenon capable of giving the sensation of palpability. All great art falls under this final interpretation. But form, to express itself aesthetically, must be composed; and here we touch the controlling basis of all art: — organisation. Organisation is the use put to form for the production of rhythm. The first step in this process is the construction of line, line being the direction taken by one or more forms. In purely...
Page xci - And only the Master shall blame ; No one shall work for money, And no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, And each in his separate star Shall paint the thing as he sees it, For the God of things as they are.
Page xiv - I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth I was made an intellectual creature : and intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days.
Page xlii - York, the exhibition will be broken up into units and shown throughout the country, under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts.
Page 96 - P°em. of Childhood By ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE With a preface by Edmund Gosse. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.