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J. Wiley & sons, 1879

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Of Symmetry or the Type of Divine Justice
72
General Inferences respecting Typical Beauty
86
The inconsistency among the effects of the mental virtues
116
signs of its immediate activity
118
Ideal form is only to be obtained by portraiture
119
Evil results of opposite practice in modern times
120
The right use of the model
121
Practical principles deducible
122
Portraiture ancient and modern
123
How connected with impurity of color
124
Or by severity of drawing
125
And modern art
126
Holy fear how distinct from human terror
127
30 Such expressions how sought by painters powerless and
129
It is never to be for itself exhibitedat least on the face
130
Recapitulation
131
General Conclusions respecting the Theo retic Faculty 1 There are no sources of the emotion of beauty more than those found in things visible
133
What imperfection exists in visible things How in a sort by imagination removable
134
What objections may be made to this conclusion
135
How interrupted by false feeling
136
Greatness and truth are sometimes by the Deity sustained and spoken in and through evil men
137
The second objection arising from the coldness of Christian men to external beauty
138
Evidence of higher rank in pleasures of sight and hearing 15
139
Evil consequences of such coldness
140
Of Imagination Associative
146
How manifested in treatment of uncertain relations Its
154
And Turner
160
Miltons and Dantes description of flame
163
The imagination seizes always by the innermost point
164
It acts intuitively and without reasoning
165
Absence of imagination how shown
166
Fancy how involved with imagination
168
Fancy is never serious
169
Imagination is quiet fancy restless
170
And suggestive of the imagination
171
This suggestiveness how opposed to vacancy
172
Imagination addresses itself to imagination
173
The imagination how manifested in sculpture
184
Michael Angelo
185
Recapitulation The perfect function of the imagination is the intuitive perception of ultimate truth
188
Imagination how vulgarly understood
190
On independence of mind
191
Of Imagination Contemplative 1 Imagination contemplative is not part of the essence but only a habit or mode of the faculty
192
Is not in itself capable of adding to the charm of fair things
193
But gives to the imagination its regardant power over them
194
The third office of fancy distinguished from imagination con templative
195
Various instances
197
Morbid or nervous fancy
200
The action of contemplative imagination is not to be expressed by art
201
Of color without form
202
Abstraction or typical representation of animal form
203
Either when it is symbolically used
204
Or in architectural decoration
205
Exception in delicate and superimposed ornament
206
Abstractions of things capable of varied accident are not
207
Exaggeration Its laws and limits First in scale of repre sentation
208
Secondly of things capable of variety of scale
209
Thirdly necessary in expression of characteristic features on diminished scale
210
Recapitulation
211
Of the Superhuman Ideal 1 The subject is not to be here treated in detail
212
And these are in or through creature forms familiar to us
213
1st Of the expression of inspiration
214
No representation of that which is more than creature is pos sible
215
Supernatural character expressed by modification of acces sories
216
Landscape of the religious painters Its character is emi nently symmetrical
217
Landscape of Perugino and Raffaelle
218
Color and Decoration Their use in representations of the Supernatural
219
Decoration so used must be generic
220
Ideal form of the body itself of what variety susceptible
221
Symmetry How valuable
222
Its scope how limited
223
Conclusion
224
ADDENDA
225

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Página 137 - And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said...
Página 91 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Página 39 - From God who is our home. Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 197 - In heaven above thee! Yet like a star, with glittering crest, Self-poised in air thou seems't to rest; — May peace come never to his nest, Who shall reprove thee! Sweet Flower! for by that name at last, When all my reveries are past, I call thee, and to that cleave fast, Sweet silent Creature ! That breath 'st with me in sun and air, Do thou, as thou art wont, repair My heart with gladness, and a share Of thy meek nature!
Página 92 - It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold : This neither is its courage nor its choice, But its necessity in being old. " The sunshine may not cheer it, nor the dew ; It cannot help itself in its decay ; Stiff in its members, withered, changed of hue.
Página 167 - Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Página 168 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Página 132 - On every corse there stood. This seraph-band, each waved his hand: It was a heavenly sight! They stood as signals to the land, Each one a lovely light; This seraph-band, each waved his hand, No voice did they impart No voice; but oh!
Página 198 - Inaudible as dreams ! the thin blue flame Lies on my low-burnt fire, and quivers not ; Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing. Methinks its motion in this hush of Nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who live, Making it a companionable form, Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling Spirit By its own moods interprets, everywhere Echo or mirror seeking of itself, And makes a toy of Thought.
Página 5 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

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