Page images
PDF
EPUB
[blocks in formation]

e.

ISAAC DISRAELI-Literary Character.

Ch. XI. The conscious utterance of thought by speech or action, to any end, is art. j.

EMERSON-Society and Solitude. Art.

The power depends on the depth of the artist's insight of that object he contemplates.

J. EMERSON-Essay on Art.

The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.

[blocks in formation]

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

i. ANNA KATHARINE GREEN-The Sword of Damocles. Bk. I. Ch. V.

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

j. HOLLAND-Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. Art and Life.

[blocks in formation]

Art is Nature made by Man To Man the interpreter of God.

8. OWEN MEREDITH-The Artist. St. 26. The perfection of art is to conceal art. t. QUINTILIAN.

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline. RUSKIN--True and Beautiful. Architecture, The Lamp of Beauty.

น.

[blocks in formation]
[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]
[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

B.

Who doth not feel, until his failing sight
Faints into dimness with its own delight,
His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess,
The might the majesty of Loveliness?
p.
BYRON- The Bride of Abydos. Canto I.
St. 6.

We do love beauty at first sight; and we do cease to love it, if it is not accompanied by amiable qualities.

q. LYDIA MARIA CHILD-Leauty.

A delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
7. LORD DENMAN O'Connell. The Queen.
Clark and Finnelly.

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet,
Which once inflam'd my soul, and still
inspires my wit.

S.

DRYDEN-Cymon and Iphigenia.

Line 1.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

t. EMERSON Essay. On the Poet. In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow. u. GAY-Fable. The Peacock, Turkey and Goose. Line 1.

"Tis impious pleasure to delight in harm,
And beauty should be kind as well as charm.
V. GEO. GRANVILLE (Lord Lansdowne)--
To Myra. Line 21.

Beauty was lent to nature as the type
Of heaven's unspeakable and holy joy,
Where all perfection makes the sum of bliss.
w. S. J. HALE-Beauty. In Dict. of Poetical
Quotations.

Cheeks like the mountain-pink that grows
Among white-headed majesties.

St. 42.

x. JEAN INGELOW-Reflections. Pt. II

[blocks in formation]

To weave a garland for the rose,
And think thus crown'd 'twould lovelier be,
Were far less vain than to suppose
That silks and gems add grace to thee.
k. MOORE-Songs from the Greek
Anthology. To Weave a Garland.

"Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all.

1. POPE-Essay. On Criticism. Pt. II. Line 45.

For when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a point divine. PRIOR TO the Countess of Oxford.

m.

[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

BEAUTY.

Of Nature's gifts thou may'st with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose.

a. King John. Act III. Sc. 1.

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night,
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear:
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
b. Romeo and Juliet. Act I. Sc. 5.
Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear
As morning roses newly wash'd with dew.

C. Taming of the Shrew. Act II. Sc. 1. See where she comes, apparell'd like the Spring.

d. Pericles. Act. I. Sc. 1.

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with't.
e. Tempest. Act I. Sc. 2.

Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white, Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. ƒ. Twelfth Night. Act 1. Sc. 5.

I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]
[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]
[blocks in formation]

Henry VI. Pt. III. Act I. Sc. 4. Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say, there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be, To say,--there is no vice but beggary. King John. Act II. Sc. 2.

y.

[blocks in formation]

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry,

And born in bed, in bed we die;

The near approach a bed may show

Of human bliss to human woe.

p. ISAAC DE BENSERADE-Translated by

Dr. Johnson.

You will and you won't;

You'll be damn'd if you do,

You'll be damn'd if you don't.

bb. LORENZO DOW-Chain (Definition of

Calvinism).

« PreviousContinue »