 The production of a work of art throws a light upon the mystery of humanity A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different,...  Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures - Page 27by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1896 - 536 pages
...art is an abstract or epitome of the world. For, although the works of Nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all...analogous impression on the mind. What is common to them all—that perfectness and harmony—is beauty. The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...result or expression of nature, in miniature. For although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all...on the mind. What is common to them all, — that perf ectness and harmony, is beauty. The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 524 pages
...result or expression of nature, in miniature. For although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all...; which the Italians expressed by defining beauty " 51 piu nell' uno." Nothing is quite beautiful alone ; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 530 pages
...result or expression of nature, in miniature. For although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all...all, — that perfectness and harmony, is beauty. 1 The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms, — the totality of nature ; which... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 532 pages
...result or expression of nature, in miniature. For although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all...to them all, — that perfectness and harmony, is beauty.1 The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms, — the totality of nature... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pages
...result or expression of nature, in miniature. For although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all...to them all, — that perfectness and harmony, is beauty.1 The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms, — the totality of nature... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 574 pages
...for "The Poet," in Essays, Second Series. c • Page 8p, note j>. " Nature is a sea of forms. . . . What is common to them all, — that perfectness and harmony, . — is Beauty." — Nature, Addresses and Lectures, p. 23. 1 Letters from Ralph Waldo Emerson to a Friend. Edited by... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1854 - 598 pages
...motto for "The Poet," in Essays, Second Series. Page 89, note 3. " Nature is a sea of forms. . . . What is common to them all, — that perfectness and harmony, — is Beauty." — Nature, Addresses and Lectures, p. 23. Mr. Emerson quotes Proclus as saying that Beauty swims on... | |
 | Richard Dacre Archer-Hind - 1905 - 260 pages
...e<j>wTO<ypa<f>'r]fíévai y av crafpécrTepov 10—2 ~VT ATURE is a sea of forms radically alike and even unique. -*- ' What is common to them all — that perfectness and...which the Italians expressed by defining beauty ' il più nell' uno.' Nothing is quite beautiful alone : nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 464 pages
...result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all...totality of nature ; which the Italians expressed by denning beauty " il pih nelT uno." Nothing is quite beautiful alone : nothing but is beautiful in the... | |
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