Essays: First seriesH. Altemus, 1895 - 322 pages |
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Page 17
... expression of one moral thing : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble Centaur , the Peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Yet do these varied external expressions proceed from one ...
... expression of one moral thing : and to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble Centaur , the Peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Yet do these varied external expressions proceed from one ...
Page 73
... expression of his countenance , that he goes the missionary of wis- dom and virtue , and visits cities and men like a sovereign , and not like an interloper or a valet . I have no churlish objection to the circumnavi- gation of the ...
... expression of his countenance , that he goes the missionary of wis- dom and virtue , and visits cities and men like a sovereign , and not like an interloper or a valet . I have no churlish objection to the circumnavi- gation of the ...
Page 307
... expression of nature , and not nature itself , and so exalt in his copy , the features that please him . He will give the gloom of gloom , and the sunshine of sunshine . In a por- trait , he must inscribe the character , and not the ...
... expression of nature , and not nature itself , and so exalt in his copy , the features that please him . He will give the gloom of gloom , and the sunshine of sunshine . In a por- trait , he must inscribe the character , and not the ...
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