The Philosophy of Art in America, a Dissertation Upon Vital Topics of the Day: Perhaps of All Time

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W. R. Jenkins, 1885 - 136 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 70 - Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
الصفحة 52 - There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them ; not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, (as a musician that...
الصفحة 9 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
الصفحة 25 - A failure on the part of the management to carry out the original intent in regard to the exposition might reflect upon the honor of the United States Government, since twenty-one foreign nations and fortysix States and Territories have joined in the enterprise through faith in the sanction of the Government.
الصفحة 135 - Haroun Alraschid, in the days He went about his vagrant ways, And prowled at eve for good or bad In lanes and alleys of Bagdad, Once found, at edge of the bazaar, E'en where the poorest workers are, A carver. Fair his work and fine, With mysteries of inlaced design, And shapes of shut significance To aught but an anointed glance, The dreams and visions that grow plain In darkened chambers of the brain.
الصفحة 34 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
الصفحة 52 - I think a painter may make a better face than ever was, but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music), and not by rule. A man shall see faces that, if you examine them part by part, you shall find never a good, and yet 30 all togetherdo wel1.
الصفحة 112 - Art ! sweet Art ! new radiance broke Where her light foot flew o'er the ground, And thus, with seraph voice, she spoke : " The curse a blessing shall be found...
الصفحة 136 - twas truth the Caliph said. From that day forth his work was planned So that the world might understand. He carved it deeper, and more plain ; He carved it thrice as large again ; He sold it, too, for thrice the cost ; — Ah, but the Artist that was lost...
الصفحة 58 - OUR intercourse with the dead is better than our intercourse with the living. There are only three pleasures in life, pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things — books, pictures, and the face of nature.

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