The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic TheoryC. Scribner's Sons, 1896 - 275 pagine |
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The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana Visualizzazione completa - 1896 |
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana Visualizzazione completa - 1896 |
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana Visualizzazione completa - 1896 |
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abstract aesthetic æsthetic value appeal apperception appreciation Aristotle artist asso associations attained attention becomes cation character charm colour comic conceive consciousness constitute definite delight distinction effect elements emotion ence essence evil existence experience expression external fact faculties fancy feel function GEORGE SANTAYANA give habit happiness human nature idea ideal imagination impressions indeterminate individual infinite instinct interest intrinsic kind King Lear less material meaning ment mind moral ness never nomical object objectified observed organ Othello ourselves pain passion perceived perception perfection perhaps plastic arts pleased pleasure poet possible practical present principle reality reason relation retina rience romanticism satisfaction sensation sense of beauty sensuous sexual sexual selection sion soul spontaneous stimulation sublime suggestion Sybaris symbol symmetry taste tendency theory thetic things thought tical tion tive trinsic truth ugly unity utilitarian utility vague virtue vision words
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Pagina 235 - No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Pagina 235 - Perplex'd in the extreme ; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe ; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum.
Pagina 251 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep ! He hath awakened from the dream of life. 'Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings. We decay Like corpses in a charnel ; fear and grief Convulse us and consume us day by day, And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
Pagina 49 - LIV. O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye, As the perfumed tincture of the roses ; Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses ; But, for their virtue* only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet...
Pagina 179 - And in the midst of this wide quietness A rosy sanctuary will I dress With the wreath'd trellis of a working brain, With buds, and bells, and stars without a name, With all the gardener Fancy e'er could feign, Who breeding flowers, will never breed the same: And there shall be for thee all soft delight That shadowy thought can win, A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in ! FANCY.
Pagina 134 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, •To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean— roll!
Pagina 65 - While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd; With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrups, tinct with cinnamon; Manna and dates, in argosy transferred From Fez ; and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedared Lebanon.
Pagina 66 - Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an...
Pagina 18 - We may therefore at once assert this axiom, important for all moral philosophy and fatal to certain stubborn incoherences of thought, that there is no value apart from some appreciation of it, and no good apart from some preference of it before its absence or its opposite.
Pagina 41 - Nothing has less to do with the real merit of a work of imagination than the capacity of all men to appreciate it; the true test is the degree and kind of satisfaction it can give to him who appreciates it most.