Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the distinction between the fine and the useful arts be forgotten. If history were truly told, if life were nobly spent, it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other. In nature... Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle - Page 345by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1841Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...the useful arts, and the distinction between the fine and the useful arts be forgotten. If historv were truly told, if life were nobly spent, it would be no lonerer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other. In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful.... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...drink; to serve the ideal in eating and drinking, in drawing the breath, and in the functions of life 1 Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the...distinguish the one from the other. In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1853 - 292 pages
...power which the work evinced in the artist, and its highest effect is to make men artists.—Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the distinction between the fine and the useful arts be forgotten.—In nature all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive,... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...its secondary and bad senses. Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the distinctionbetween the fine and the useful arts be forgotten. If history...distinguish the one from the other. In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 354 pages
...distinction between the fine and the useful arts be forgotten. If history were truly told, if life weie nobly spent, it would be no longer easy or possible...distinguish the one from the other. In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. Tt is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive ; it... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 574 pages
...to serve the ideal in eating and drinking, in?' drawing the breath, and in the functions of life 1 Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the...distinguish the one from the other. In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. Jtjstherefor ^ between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with... | |
| John Burley Waring - 1873 - 378 pages
...civilized state; and here, let us take to heart the words of an eloquent American philosopher, Emerson—" Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the distinction between the fine and useful arts be forgotten. If history were truly told, if life were nobly spent, it would be no longer... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 344 pages
...first series of essays. It is translatable into his view of Art also, so that he is able to say, " Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the...between the fine and the useful arts be forgotten." Thus he anticipated the new utilitarian who denies that a structure fulfils the laws of use completely... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 568 pages
...drink; to serve the ideal in eating and drinking, in drawing the breath, and in the functions of lifet Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the distinction between the fine and the useful arts bo forgotten. If history were truly told, if life were nobly spent, it would be no longer easy or possible... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 368 pages
...Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the distinction between the fine and the useful arts bo forgotten. If history were truly told, if life were...distinguish the one from the other. In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful.' CHAPTER XIV. AESTHETICS OF EXPRESSION —THE SUBLIME. The soul is naturally... | |
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