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... sense of fitness and propriety in the smallest as in the greatest things , yet little suscep- tibility for the beautiful in art . With respect to military genius , he shows that Cæsar united to the fire and rapid- ity of the Macedonian ...
... sense of fitness and propriety in the smallest as in the greatest things , yet little suscep- tibility for the beautiful in art . With respect to military genius , he shows that Cæsar united to the fire and rapid- ity of the Macedonian ...
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... sense and a philosophic discernment that could catch the spirit of antiquity , reanimate her forms , and place them in all their living freshness before our eyes . In the first chapter of the " History of Greek Poetry , " Schlegel ...
... sense and a philosophic discernment that could catch the spirit of antiquity , reanimate her forms , and place them in all their living freshness before our eyes . In the first chapter of the " History of Greek Poetry , " Schlegel ...
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... sense : Music explores and gives utterance to the deepest feelings of the human soul : but it is reserved for the most spiritual of the arts - Painting , to express all the mysteries of in- telligence - all the divine symbolism in ...
... sense : Music explores and gives utterance to the deepest feelings of the human soul : but it is reserved for the most spiritual of the arts - Painting , to express all the mysteries of in- telligence - all the divine symbolism in ...
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... sense of the beautiful , that vigorous , flexible and excursive fancy which made the genius of Herder at home in every region of art , and in every clime of poesy . The intellectual productions of every age and FREDERICK VON SCHLEGEL . 27.
... sense of the beautiful , that vigorous , flexible and excursive fancy which made the genius of Herder at home in every region of art , and in every clime of poesy . The intellectual productions of every age and FREDERICK VON SCHLEGEL . 27.
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... sense of the word - the genius of the author is ever soar- ing above his subject - ever springing from the lower world of art , to those high and aerial regions of philoso- phy still more native to his spirit . To him the beautiful was ...
... sense of the word - the genius of the author is ever soar- ing above his subject - ever springing from the lower world of art , to those high and aerial regions of philoso- phy still more native to his spirit . To him the beautiful was ...
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