The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and ReligionJ. Wiley, 1867 - 452 páginas |
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... to be in some sort typical of the Divine attributes , and which , therefore , I shall for distinction's sake call typical beauty ; and second , the appearance of felicitous fulfilment of functions in many things , BEAUTY . TYPICAL BEAUTY.
... to be in some sort typical of the Divine attributes , and which , therefore , I shall for distinction's sake call typical beauty ; and second , the appearance of felicitous fulfilment of functions in many things , BEAUTY . TYPICAL BEAUTY.
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John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill. appearance of felicitous fulfilment of functions in many things , and this I shall call vital beauty . Let us briefly distinguish those qualities , or types , on whose combination is dependent the ...
John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill. appearance of felicitous fulfilment of functions in many things , and this I shall call vital beauty . Let us briefly distinguish those qualities , or types , on whose combination is dependent the ...
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... appearance of repose , and yet there is no quality whose semblance in mere matter is more difficult to define or illustrate . Nevertheless , I believe that our instinc tive love of it , as well as the cause REPOSE . 13.
... appearance of repose , and yet there is no quality whose semblance in mere matter is more difficult to define or illustrate . Nevertheless , I believe that our instinc tive love of it , as well as the cause REPOSE . 13.
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... the evidences of repose in external signs . I say fearlessly respecting repose , that no work of art can be great without in , and that all art is great in proportion to the appearance of it . It is the most unfailing test of 14 BEAUTY .
... the evidences of repose in external signs . I say fearlessly respecting repose , that no work of art can be great without in , and that all art is great in proportion to the appearance of it . It is the most unfailing test of 14 BEAUTY .
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... appearance in the work , is the majesty of mind to be inferred in the artificer . Without regard to other qua lities , we may look to this for our evidence , and by the search of this alone we may be led to the rejection of all that is ...
... appearance in the work , is the majesty of mind to be inferred in the artificer . Without regard to other qua lities , we may look to this for our evidence , and by the search of this alone we may be led to the rejection of all that is ...
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Página 43 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Página 388 - My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Página 25 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a law.
Página 441 - She riseth also while it is yet night and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Página 377 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, " She is near, she is near ; " And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;" And the lily whispers,
Página 12 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy ! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy ; The Youth, who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Página 115 - In these two princely boys! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head: and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafd, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
Página 415 - LET the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, " There is a man child conceived.
Página 47 - All has passed, unregretted as unseen; or if the apathy be ever shaken off, even for an instant, it is only by what is gross, or what is extraordinary ; and yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, not in the clash of the hail, nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not in the earthquake, nor in the fire ; but in the still, small voice.
Página 146 - Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone ; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, ' ' See, this our fathers did for us.