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accents according æsthetic appear applied architecture art-composition artistic arts of sight arts of sound association beauty blue cause Chapter character characteristic Charles Blanc chords complementary colours conception condition connection conscious considered contrast corresponding curves degree developed effects emphasise expression expressional external fact figures FINGER GESTURE give Greek green harmony hues human human voice illustration imagination imitation Imitative Music indicated influence instance Laocoön latter light and shade lines MAISON CARRÉE manifest meaning measurements melody Mentioned on pages ments merely methods mind motive movements musical scale nature notice objects orange outlines painter painting perceived photograph picture pitch poetic poetry Pollice Verso principle produced proportion reason recognise reference repre representation result rhythm sculpture seems sense side sounds subconscious suggested supposed syllables termed thought or feeling thoughts and emotions tints and shades tion Titian true unity vibrations WALTER CRANE waves whole words yellow
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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