 ... tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured o.ne, the wise man and the one of...  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 226geredigeerd door - 1898Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1906 - 1232 pagina’s
...and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see ; and Nature, who, for once, has sung in tune,...that he loves her, her master in that he knows her." The first impression of London is, in truth, compounded of so many elements and is at once so much... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1888 - 42 pagina’s
...and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see, and ' Nature, who, for once, has sung in tune,...her lessons have become gradually clear. He looks at her flower, not with the enlarging lens, that he may gather facts for the botanist, but with the light... | |
 | Gerard Baldwin Brown - 1891 - 352 pagina’s
...and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see, and Nature, who, for once, has sung in tune,...exquisite song to the artist alone, her son and her master .' : Only in the North and only since the seventeenth century could this have been felt or uttered... | |
 | John Charles Van Dyke - 1893 - 324 pagina’s
...prove himself the one to whom nature reveals her finer phases. For, as Mr. Whistler has said, " He is her son and her master, her son in that he loves her, her master in that he knows her." Her lover ever, he sees beauty in her countless forms and faces, in her myriad hues and colors, in... | |
 | John Miller Gray - 1895 - 188 pagina’s
...and the cultured one, the wise man, and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see, and nature, who for once has sung in tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone.' The description here is ' done to the quick ; ' it is a verbal analogue of many a ' Nocturne ' from... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1896 - 40 pagina’s
...and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see, and Nature, who, for once, has sung in tune,...that he loves her, her master in that he knows her. He does not confine himself to purposeless copying, without thought, each blade of grass, as commended... | |
 | John Charles Van Dyke - 1898 - 322 pagina’s
...prove himself the one to whom nature reveals her finer phases. For, as Mr. Whistler has said, " He ia her son and her master, her son in that he loves her, her master in that he knows her." Her lover ever, he sees beauty in her countless forms and faces, in her myriad huea and colors, in... | |
 | N. D'Anvers - 1899 - 334 pagina’s
...his notes and forms chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony." " Nature," he adds, " sings her exquisite song to the artist alone, her...unfolded, to him her lessons have become gradually clear." As is well known, Whistler's original mode of interpreting the secrets revealed to him by nature at... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1902 - 360 pagina’s
...and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see, and Nature, who for once, has sung in tune,...that he loves her, her master in that he knows her. C.To him her secrets are unfolded, to him her lessons have become gradually clear. He looks at the... | |
 | Arthur Jerome Eddy - 1903 - 362 pagina’s
...and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure cease to understand, as they have ceased to see ; and Nature, who, for once, has sung in tune,...in that he loves her, her master in that he knows her."1 And it was his habit to paint when the studio was filled with gloom and lengthening shadows... | |
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