Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 862
... perfection of form . It is there only that we have clear and deep thought always beautifully embodied . Indeed , truth and beauty govern Greek literature so absolutely that , old as it is , it seems to us ever fresh and eternally young ...
... perfection of form . It is there only that we have clear and deep thought always beautifully embodied . Indeed , truth and beauty govern Greek literature so absolutely that , old as it is , it seems to us ever fresh and eternally young ...
Page 883
... perfection , and whose grandeur and sublimity have been the admiration and theme of all succeeding ages . They might have said to him , that this was the craft - work of a fraternity to whose genius and discoveries , and to whose ...
... perfection , and whose grandeur and sublimity have been the admiration and theme of all succeeding ages . They might have said to him , that this was the craft - work of a fraternity to whose genius and discoveries , and to whose ...
Page 895
... perfection . Men began to look round for some- thing more startlingly new than the slow , gradual change of architecture and the attendant lesser arts could give them . This change they found in the glorious work of the painters , and ...
... perfection . Men began to look round for some- thing more startlingly new than the slow , gradual change of architecture and the attendant lesser arts could give them . This change they found in the glorious work of the painters , and ...
Page 896
... perfection that was the rule in the days of Greece , people began to look for an intricacy of treatment that the Greeks had never dreamed of ; men began to see hopes of reali- zing scenes of history and poetry in a far more complete way ...
... perfection that was the rule in the days of Greece , people began to look for an intricacy of treatment that the Greeks had never dreamed of ; men began to see hopes of reali- zing scenes of history and poetry in a far more complete way ...
Page 911
... perfection , words are forthcoming for our purpose , as , for instance , judgment , taste , and skill ; yet even these belong , for the most part , to powers or habits bearing upon practice or upon art , and not to any perfect condition ...
... perfection , words are forthcoming for our purpose , as , for instance , judgment , taste , and skill ; yet even these belong , for the most part , to powers or habits bearing upon practice or upon art , and not to any perfect condition ...
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