Belcaro: Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical QuestionsT. Fisher Unwin, 1887 - 285 pagina's |
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Pagina 22
... Mozart and Wagner and Offenbach , saturated with every kind of critically distilled æsthetic essence , till there is not a flavour and not a scent , good or bad . sweet or foul , which may not be perceived in this strange soul of ours ...
... Mozart and Wagner and Offenbach , saturated with every kind of critically distilled æsthetic essence , till there is not a flavour and not a scent , good or bad . sweet or foul , which may not be perceived in this strange soul of ours ...
Pagina 27
... Mozart's ; the first it had ever heard save much more modern music ; and those bars of symphony were intelligible words , conveyed to the child a secret . And the secret was : " we are the brethern , the sounding ones of the statues ...
... Mozart's ; the first it had ever heard save much more modern music ; and those bars of symphony were intelligible words , conveyed to the child a secret . And the secret was : " we are the brethern , the sounding ones of the statues ...
Pagina 48
... Mozart's , when they said : " we also , the sound- ing ones , are the brethren of the statues ; and all we who are brethren , whether in stone , or sound or colour , shall to thee speak in such a way that thou recognize us , and ...
... Mozart's , when they said : " we also , the sound- ing ones , are the brethren of the statues ; and all we who are brethren , whether in stone , or sound or colour , shall to thee speak in such a way that thou recognize us , and ...
Pagina 69
... Mozart's Tamino . It would thus be the highest reward for self - scrutinising æsthetic humility , for honest appreciation of each art for itself , for brave sacrifice of our own artistic whimsies and vanities , to enable us to bring up ...
... Mozart's Tamino . It would thus be the highest reward for self - scrutinising æsthetic humility , for honest appreciation of each art for itself , for brave sacrifice of our own artistic whimsies and vanities , to enable us to bring up ...
Pagina 108
... Mozart's melodies , no Barabbas in Bach's fugues , there is nothing but beautiful forms made out of sounds . The old prosaic masters of the past , who worked at , a picture or a statue or an opera as a cobbler works at a pair of shoes ...
... Mozart's melodies , no Barabbas in Bach's fugues , there is nothing but beautiful forms made out of sounds . The old prosaic masters of the past , who worked at , a picture or a statue or an opera as a cobbler works at a pair of shoes ...
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æsthetic Amphion and Zethus answered Antiope antique artistic Author Baldwin bas-relief Beaumarchais beauty become Belcaro century Chapelmaster character Charles Whitehead Cherubino child cloth extra colour conceive creature Crown 8vo Cyril delicate Demy 8vo divinities edition emotion enjoyment evil exist eyes fancy Faustus Fcap feel figures give Goethe green half Helen holy human ideas Illustrated imagination immorality impressions instinct intellectual John Ruskin Kreisler light lives logical look Marlowe means mediæval ment mental merely mind modern mood moral Mozart musician nature nerves never Niobe Niobides noble Orpheus and Eurydice ourselves painter painting passion perceive perfect Perugia Perugino physical picture piece pleasure poet poetry pure qualities question reality round Ruskin saints sculptor seems sense shape sight sort soul sounds statues story strange supernatural things thought tion Umbria vague VERNON LEE Villa Albani whole words
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Pagina 101 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul ! See, where it flies ! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for Heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
Pagina 99 - And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Pagina 103 - Her wide sleeves green, and bordered with a grove, Where Venus in her naked glory strove To please the careless and disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis, that before her lies; Her kirtle blue, whereon was many a stain, Made with the blood of wretched lovers slain.
Pagina 100 - Curst be the parents that engendered me : No, Faustus ; curse thyself, curse Lucifer, That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven. [The clock strikes twelve. It strikes, it strikes ! Now, body, turn to air, Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell. 0 soul, be changed into small water-drops And fall into the ocean ; ne'er be found.
Pagina 101 - Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in, the beauty of a thousand stars; Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter When he appeared to hapless Semele: More lovely than the monarch of the sky In wanton Arethusa's azured arms:" And none but thou shalt be my paramour!
Pagina 99 - Gentlemen, farewell: if I live till morning, I'll visit you ; if not, Faustus is gone to hell.
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Pagina 101 - I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars...
Pagina 22 - He has imported into his deeper verse the beauty of a halfregretful subtlety and the interest of a real penetration. He can think with fineness and record his thoughts with point.