For, don't you mark ? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses... Essays on Books - Page 15by William Lyon Phelps - 1914 - 319 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1896 - 616 pages
...strange mental process, makes us take greater pleasure in the object painted than in the thing itself. ' We're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things wo have passed Perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see.' We need only compare Cimabue's Madonna,... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1856 - 800 pages
...complete : Suppose you reproduce her — (which you can't) There's no advantage! you must beat her, then.' For, don't you mark, we're made so that we love First...have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see ; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same tiling. Art was given for that... | |
| Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...— (which you can't) There 's no advantage ! you must beat her, then." For, don't you mark, we 're made so that we love First when we see them painted,...have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see ; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that... | |
| American essays - 1916 - 986 pages
...nature,' and thus focusing our attention. Browning expresses this in 'Fra Lippo Lippi,' where he says, — For, don't you mark, we're made so that we love First...have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see. But the highest office of art is not so much to attract our attention to beautiful objects as to make... | |
| Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...: Suppose you reproduce her — (which you can't) There's no advantage ! you must beat her, then." For, don't you mark, we're made so that we love First...have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see ; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that... | |
| Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...sentation of nature, the more delightful are her curves and lines, lights and shadows, form and color. "For don't you mark? We're made so that we love First...passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see." And so they are better painted — better to UB. "Which IB the same thing. Art was given for that—... | |
| sir David Wilkie - 1868 - 182 pages
...engraving by JOHN SURNET. The Photographs by Messrs. Cundall and Fleming. MEMOIR OF SIR DAVID WILKIE. " For, don't you mark, we're made so that we love First...have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see ; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that... | |
| Richard St. John Tyrwhitt - Painting - 1868 - 520 pages
...fast acquiring information from books is rather to under1 Comp. Browning, ' Fra Lippo Lippi :'— ' For, don't you mark, we're made so, that we love First...passed Perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see,' <fec., &e. value than to admire what he does not find in his books. Book-knowledge is rapidly gained,... | |
| John Richard Vernon - 1869 - 384 pages
...in the homely scene. For many a connoisseur of man's pictures passes most of God's quite unheeded. " For don't you mark, we're made so that we love First...have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see ? And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Have you noticed now Your... | |
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