Art in Education and Life: A Plea for the More Systematic Culture of the Sense of Beauty

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R. G. Adams, 1914 - 334 páginas
 

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Página 132 - thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Página 136 - Even so, this happy creature of herself Is all-sufficient; solitude to her Is blithe society — who fills the air With gladness and involuntary songs. Light are her sallies as the tripping fawn's Forth-startled from the fern where she lay couched; Unthought of, unexpected, as the stir Of the soft breeze ruffling the
Página 158 - the boundless store Of charms which nature to her votary yields: The warbling woodlands, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, the garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountains' sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven; Oh! how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven!
Página 32 - Nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. There is
Página 33 - over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. There is an art Which doth mend nature — change it rather, but
Página 136 - society — who fills the air With gladness and involuntary songs. Light are her sallies as the tripping fawn's Forth-startled from the fern where she lay couched; Unthought of, unexpected, as the stir Of the soft breeze ruffling the meadow-flowers; Or from before it chasing wantonly The many-colored images imprest Upon the bosom of a placid lake.
Página 16 - that the purpose of education is "to give to the body and the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable,
Página 16 - includes whatever we do for ourselves and whatever is done for us by others for the express purpose of bringing us nearer to the perfection of our nature
Página 321 - things outward. ... At length the vision will be revealed to him of a single science which is the science of Beauty everywhere ... a thing of wondrous beauty, which is everlasting,
Página 271 - This Western Giant, coarse, Scorning refinements which he lacks himself, Loves not nor heeds the ancestral hierarchies, Each rank dependent on the next above In orderly gradation fixed as fate. King by mere manhood, nor allowing aught Of holier unction than the sweat of toil; In his own strength sufficient; called to solve on the rough

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