The Domain of ArtJ. Murray, 1901 - 170 pagine |
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Pagina 162 - Fortunatus had a wishing Hat, which when he put on, and ' wished himself Anywhere, behold he was There. By this means ' had Fortunatus triumphed over Space, he had annihilated Space ; ' for him there was no Where, but all was Here.
Pagina 14 - We must have still spent some time in town-seeing, for it was drawing towards sunset, when we got up to some sort of garden promenade — west of the town, I believe; and high above the Rhine, so as to command the open country across it to the south and west. At which open country of low undulation, far into blue, — gazing as at one of our own distances from...
Pagina 14 - There was no thought in any of us for' a moment of their being clouds. They were clear as crystal, sharp on the pure horizon sky, and already tinged with rose by the sinking sun. Infinitely beyond all that we had ever thought or dreamed, — the seen walls of lost Eden could not have been more beautiful to us ; not more awful, round heaven, the walls of sacred Death.
Pagina 121 - A perfectly poetic appreciation of nature contains two elements, — a knowledge of facts, and a sensibility to charms. Everybody who may have to speak to some naturalists will be well aware how widely the two may be separated. He will have seen that a man may study butterflies and forget that they are beautiful, or be perfect in the ' Lunar theory ' without knowing what most people mean by the moon.
Pagina 53 - I must take leave to tell them, that they wholly mistake the nature of criticism, who think its business is principally to find fault. Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant a standard of judging well, the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which should delight a reasonable reader.
Pagina 26 - Heaven! Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Pagina 150 - So ist denn alles, was ihr Siinde, Zerstorung, kurz das Bose nennt, mein eigentliches Element.
Pagina 36 - ... commoner oldfashioned soap being made out of rapeseed. When it is borne in mind that, before the beginning of the English whalefishery on the Spitsbergen coasts about 1610, there was practically no whale-oil brought into England, the relative dearth of good soap in Tudor days may be deduced. Improved laundry work followed the whale-fishery.
Pagina 35 - ... definitely. Sir Martin Conway, whose many-sidedness qualifies him for establishing such unsuspected concatenations among phenomena, points out that the discovery of Spitsbergen had a marked effect upon the style of dress in seventeenth-century England. 1 cannot do better than give his own words : ' An interesting example of the reaction of invention or discovery upon one of the arts of life came recently under my observation, and is perhaps worth a brief digression to record. In the process of...
Pagina 30 - Savelli, which had been the residence of the family all through the Middle Ages and down to the beginning of the...