The Essentials of Æsthetics in Music, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture and Architecture

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G. P. Putnam's sons, 1906 - Aesthetics - 404 pages

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Page 110 - communicated, or stated, this fact, he would have written prose; but he represented it, and therefore we call what he wrote poetry, eg : Art is long and time is fleeting. And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral inarches to the grave. The Psalm of
Page 255 - Brutus and Coesar : what should be in that Caesar ? Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name ; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well ; Weigh them, it is as heavy ; conjure with them. " Brutus " will start a spirit as soon as " Caesar.
Page 220 - Get thee behind me, Satan," would require a downward and backward gesture, because the speaker would conceive of Satan as below and behind himself morally ; but the expression— There was a Brutus once that would- have brooked The Eternal Devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king— Julius
Page 28 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore. The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. Essay on Criticism • Pope.
Page 174 - What may this mean That thou, dread corse, again, in complete steel, Revisitest thus the glimpses of the moon. Making night hideous ; and we, fools of nature, So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this
Page 255 - And what is music then ? Then music is Even as the flourish when true subjects bow To a new-crowned monarch ; such it is, As are those dulcet sounds in break of day. That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear. And summon him to marriage. Merchant of Venice, Hi., 2
Page 27 - Still as a slave before his lord, The ocean hath no blast ; His great bright eye most silently Up to the moon is cast. The A ncient Mariner : Coleridge. A similar fact is true in the arts of sight. We sometimes find, as in the pictures of early Christian art, a degree of beauty which cannot be attributed to any
Page 146 - T is midnight. On the mountains brown The cold round moon shines deeply down ; Blue roll the waters, blue the sky Spreads like an ocean hung on high, Bespangled with those isles of light, So wildly, spiritually bright : Who ever gazed upon them shining, And turned to earth without repining ? The Siege of Corinth : Byron.
Page 145 - Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending, they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms, Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream,—by these Three Queens with crowns of gold.
Page 144 - And the night shall be tilled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. 7

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