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Page 52
... never weary of assisting the great old Masters ; for although now the scope of Painting is enlarged so as to be more especially the art which imitates bodies upon flat surfaces , yet the wise Greek placed it within much narrower limits ...
... never weary of assisting the great old Masters ; for although now the scope of Painting is enlarged so as to be more especially the art which imitates bodies upon flat surfaces , yet the wise Greek placed it within much narrower limits ...
Page 225
... never before so well expressed ' , they certainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he ...
... never before so well expressed ' , they certainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he ...
Page 238
... never in danger from the pitfalls that waylay the plodding critic ; but they are always falling upward , as it were , into vacuity . They love to lose themselves in an O altitudo . From the most worthless material they will fashion a ...
... never in danger from the pitfalls that waylay the plodding critic ; but they are always falling upward , as it were , into vacuity . They love to lose themselves in an O altitudo . From the most worthless material they will fashion a ...
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A. E. HOUSMAN abstract aesthetic emotion aesthetic sense anapaests appearance appreciation architect architecture artist beauty building century Cézanne classical CLIVE BELL colour combination conscious considered contrapuntal creative derived doth effect element English ERIC GILL essential experience expression eyes feeling flowers function Gothic Gothic architecture Greek hand harmony hear Herbert Read iambic ideas imagination imitation intellectual literal meaning living look medium Messrs metre mind nature never object onomatopoeia painter painting passage pattern picture Piero della Francesca pleasure poem poet poetic poetry prose pure rational realism Renaissance representation rhyme rhythm ROGER FRY Romantic sculpture sequence Shakespeare shape significance sonnet soul sound spondee Sprung Rhythm story style suggest sweet syllables T. S. ELIOT thee thing thou thought three-dimensional tones trochee true ugly unconscious mind verse visual art whole words writing yellow