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... question is so difficult , that in despair of answering it the philosophers have turned sceptics - and the answer of those philosophers who are not sceptical of Beauty are of little value . All that Science can teach us of Beauty ...
... question is so difficult , that in despair of answering it the philosophers have turned sceptics - and the answer of those philosophers who are not sceptical of Beauty are of little value . All that Science can teach us of Beauty ...
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... question of supreme interest in Art relates to Ethics . - On the importance of Art . - How Art endures and flourishes . - The memorial character of Art ; illus- trated in the least important of the Arts . - The art of the potter ...
... question of supreme interest in Art relates to Ethics . - On the importance of Art . - How Art endures and flourishes . - The memorial character of Art ; illus- trated in the least important of the Arts . - The art of the potter ...
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... question of right or wrong depends on the purity of the pleasure , as it does on the modesty of the knowledge . Science may puff up and art may debauch the mind ; but this is not because the one gives knowledge and the other pleasure ...
... question of right or wrong depends on the purity of the pleasure , as it does on the modesty of the knowledge . Science may puff up and art may debauch the mind ; but this is not because the one gives knowledge and the other pleasure ...
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... questions . What is life ? what is electricity ? what is heat ? what is motion ? and what is meant by a science of things which are not to be defined ? An electric spark is an electric spark : we cannot define it , any more than we can ...
... questions . What is life ? what is electricity ? what is heat ? what is motion ? and what is meant by a science of things which are not to be defined ? An electric spark is an electric spark : we cannot define it , any more than we can ...
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... question , not so much what is pleasure ? or what are its laws ? as what is the good of it ? or is it allowable ? These questions , and the discussions they raise , have nothing to do with science . Just as the questions , May I look at ...
... question , not so much what is pleasure ? or what are its laws ? as what is the good of it ? or is it allowable ? These questions , and the discussions they raise , have nothing to do with science . Just as the questions , May I look at ...
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Page 235 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 135 - Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon.
Page 136 - Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere Nor any drop to drink.
Page 9 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with Hope, men favour the deceit, Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day, Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 38 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 122 - My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Page 222 - Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and suchlike passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Page 196 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth: Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot; Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 134 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Page 45 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...