Civilization: An Appreciation of the Victories of Scholarship, Science and Art, Том 4I. Squire, 1917 |
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Сторінка 157 - ... among which she sits ; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her as the sound of lyres and flutes...
Сторінка 157 - All the thoughts and experience of the world have etched and moulded there, in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form, the animalism of Greece, the lust of Rome, the mysticism of the middle age with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias.
Сторінка 61 - After writing this sonnet, it was given unto me to behold a very wonderful vision : wherein I saw things which determined me that I would say nothing further of this most blessed one, until such time as I could discourse more worthily concerning her. And to this end I labour all I can; as she well knoweth.
Сторінка 15 - For he is appointed to protect his subjects in their lives, properties, and laws ; for this very end and purpose he has the delegation of power from the people, and he has no just claim to any other power but this.
Сторінка 61 - Wherefore if it be His pleasure through whom is the life of all things, that my life continue with me a few years, it is my hope that I shall yet write concerning her what hath not before been written of any woman.
Сторінка 41 - Galileo taught that the sun and not the earth was the center of our...
Сторінка 151 - Then I can execute sculpture, whether in marble, bronze, or terra-cotta ; also in painting I can do as much as any other, be he who he may.
Сторінка 235 - In general, we can say that around forty-five years of age a change takes place in that the "needs," which come from the biological nature of man, become less important, and the duties directed by our ideals...
Сторінка 183 - To Correggio belongs the great praise of having attained the highest point of perfection in coloring, whether his works were executed in oil or in fresco.
Сторінка 176 - Living, great Nature feared he might outvie Her works; and dying, fears herself may die.