 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 448 pages
...philosophers not to attempt a definition of Beauty. I will rather enumerate a few of its qualities. We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has...related to all things ; which is the mean of many extremes.1 It is the most enduring quality, and the most ascending quality. We say love is blind, and... | |
 | Ernest Allen Batchelder - 1904 - 246 pages
...unique, regardless of good design. Let us hope that it proceeded from the former cause. 1 CHAPTER III. " We ascribe Beauty to that which is simple; which has...superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which is related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. Things may be pretty, rich, graceful,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 468 pages
...is the argument for the immortality. One more text from the mythologists is to the same purpose, — Beauty rides on a lion. Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.1 The cell of the bee is built at that angle which gives the most strength with the least wax... | |
 | Clarence Lathbury - 1905 - 272 pages
...wedlock of beauty, repose and energy. Buonarroti speaks of "the expurgation of superfluities," Emerson of "that which is simple, which has no superfluous parts, which exactly answers its end, which is the mean of all extremes — and stands perfectly related to all things." Real health means that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 326 pages
...philosophers not to attempt a definition of Beauty. I will rather enumerate a few of its qualities. We ascribe beauty to that which is simple ; which...to all things ; which is the mean of many extremes. It is the most enduring quality, and the most ascending quality. We say love is blind, and the figure... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...philosophers not to attempt a definition of Beauty. I will rather enumerate a few of its qualities. We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has...to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. It is the most enduring quality, and the most ascending quality. We say, love is blind, and the figure... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 pages
...rather enumerate a few of its qualities, i We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has ho superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end;...to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. It is the most enduring quality, and the most ascending quality. We say, love is blind, and the figure... | |
 | George Dillistone - 1920 - 188 pages
...REMARKS ON THE AIMS AND OBJECTS OF GARDEN DESIGNOBJECTS OF THE "LITTLE GARDEN PLANNING COMPETITION" ' ' WE ascribe beauty to that which is simple ; which...all things ; which is the mean of many extremes." So wrote Emerson, with perhaps no dream of gardens in his philosophy. Nevertheless, in these words... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1922 - 324 pages
...and characterize it he ran the same risk. " We ascribe beauty to that which is simple," he said; " which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers...to all things; which is the mean of many extremes." Is a boot-jack beautiful? Is a crow-bar? Yet these are simple, they have no superfluous parts, they... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2003 - 596 pages
...philosophers, not to attempt a definition of Beauty. I will rather enumerate a few of its qualities. We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has...to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. It is the most enduring quality, and the most ascending quality. We say, love is blind, and the figure... | |
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple ; which has no superfluous parts ; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. 
