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 artist associations attention beauty of form becomes ception character charm colour conceived conception consciousness constitute definite delight direction distinction effect emotion environment essence Esthetic education 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 landscape less material meaning ment merely mind moral ness nomical object objectified observation organ ornament ourselves pain particular passion perceived perception perfection plastic arts plateresque pleasure poet practical present principle reality reason relation retina rience romanticism satisfaction sensation sense of beauty sensuous sexual sion soul specific stellar distances stimulation sublime suggestion symmetry taste tendency terminate object theory thetic things thought tical tion tive transparent things trinsic truth ugly unity utilitarian utility vague virtue words Xenophon
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Pagina 136 - 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 237 - 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 51 - 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 deaths are sweetest odours made: And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.
Pagina 253 - 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 181 - 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 51 - 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 deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth.
Pagina 67 - 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 269 - If perfection is, as it should be, the ultimate justification of being, we may understand the ground of the moral dignity of beauty. Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the prevalence of the good.
Pagina 48 - It is the survival of a tendency originally universal to make every effect of a thing upon us a constituent of its conceived nature.
Pagina 237 - 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 medicinable gum...