The Place of Oratory in the Field of Fine ArtUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1926 - 184 páginas |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Abercrombie accepted fine arts aesthetic attitude aesthetic experience aims architecture Aristotle art impulse Art in Theory art of speaking art of words artist attraction by pleasing Bascom Cairns chapter Charles Eliot Norton composition conception consider Curry Cyclopedia of Education Daniel Webster definition of art definition of oratory Demosthenes discourse discussion distinction effect elements Encyclopedia Brittanica essential quality faculty Friedrich Hebbel gives hearers Hegel Henry Ward Beecher higher art History of Criticism human Ibid idea imitation theory John Galsworthy judgment language Lectures on Art Longinus means mind Monroe moral object objectification of Emotion orator painting permanent persuasion pleasure poetry principles produce Province of Expression public speaking Quintilian realize relation revelation rhetoric Saintsbury sake Santayana Science of Beauty sculpture Sense of Beauty sion skill soul sublime technique term Theory of Art thetic thing thought and feeling tion true truth unity utility voice Woodberry
Passagens conhecidas
Página 13 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Página 12 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Página 12 - Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it.
Página 12 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities.
Página 81 - The art, or general productive and formative energy, of any country, is an exact exponent...
Página 29 - And what — I thought — do I mean by that? Surely I mean: That is not Art, which, while I am contemplating it, inspires me with any active or directive impulse; that is Art, when, for however brief a moment, it replaces within me interest in myself by interest in itself. For, let me suppose myself in the presence of a carved marble bath. If my thoughts be: "What could I buy that for?" Impulse of acquisition; or: "From what quarry did it come?" Impulse of inquiry; or: "Which would be the right...
Página 26 - I say that the art is greatest, which conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatsoever, the greatest number of the greatest ideas, and I call an idea great in proportion as it is received by a higher faculty of the mind, and as it more fully occupies, and in occupying, exercises and exalts, the faculty by which it is received.
Página 56 - ... harmony between part and part, and part and whole, which gives what Is called life; that exact proportion, the mystery of which is best grasped in observing how life leaves an animate creature when the essential relation of part to whole has been sufficiently disturbed. And I agree that this rhythmic relation of part to part, and part to whole— in short, vitality— Is the one quality inseparable from a work of Art For nothing which does not seem to a man possessed of this rhythmic vitality...
Página 29 - Which would be the right end for my head?" Mixed impulse of inquiry and acquisition— I am at that moment insensible to it as a work of Art. But, if I stand before it vibrating at sight of its...
Página 26 - He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.