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51459And indeed how should they?
51459And what sufficient reason can be given why the same may not be said of the rest of the body?
51459Have not many gothic buildings a great deal of consistent beauty in them?
51459How inelegant would the shapes of all our moveables be without it?
51459How solemn and pleasing are groves of high grown trees, great churches, and palaces?
51459If anyone should ask, what it is that constitutes a fine- proportion''d human figure?
51459If uniform objects were agreeable, why is there such care taken to contrast, and vary all the limbs of a statue?
51459In a landskip, will the water be more transparent, or the sky shine with a greater lustre when embrown''d and darken''d by decay?
51459and do n''t we find by experience what weight, or dimension should be given, or taken away, on this or that account?
51459has not even a single spreading oak, grown to maturity, acquir''d the character of the venerable oak?
51459or when a spring is not sufficient?
26942I suppose you''re a painter and regretting you have n''t brought your sketching materials?
26942--"How will the Discobolus recover when he has let go the quoit?"
26942And if so in what manner?
26942And if so,_ why is it where it is?_ Whence does it come?
26942And if so,_ why is it where it is?_ Whence does it come?
26942And that makes me think: Why not start a joint- stock company to build them?
26942But when we thus_ perceive_ a shape, what is it precisely that we grasp or take in?
26942CHAPTER IX EMPATHY_ THE mountain rises._ What do we mean when we employ this form of words?
26942CHAPTER V PERCEPTION OF RELATIONS WHY should this be the case?
26942Does this shape suggest the thing''s possession of desires and purposes which we can deal with?
26942Even such technical questions as"where and when restored or repainted?"
26942How will it_ feel_ towards us( if it can feel)?
26942Instead therefore of asking: Why is there a preference for what we call Beauty?
26942Is the ceiling to remain a unity, or be broken up into irrelevant compositions?
26942My answer is: When did I say or imply that he was_ aware_ of doing any of it?
26942No one except an art- critic sees a new picture or statue without first asking"What does it represent?
26942Not: What is the use of Art?
26942Or is it such that_ we_ can do thus by it?
26942Or of the sudden, wilful kind we know in animals and men?
26942Or will it change its place only if_ we_ supply the necessary_ locomotion?_ Briefly: is the thing of which we see the shape inert or active?
26942Or will it change its place only if_ we_ supply the necessary_ locomotion?_ Briefly: is the thing of which we see the shape inert or active?
26942To sum all up: What does the presence of this shape lead us to think and do and feel?
26942What becomes therefore of our awareness of raising or lifting or_ rising?_ What can become of it( so long as it continues to be there!)
26942What does this shape tell us of such more formidable locomotion?
26942What is it going to do?
26942What is it_ thinking_ of( if it can think)?
26942What will be its future and what may have been its past?
26942What would it say( if it could speak)?
26942Will it, like a loose stone, fall upon us?
26942like flame, rise towards us?
26942like water, spread over us?
26942of what precise date?
26942to advance or recede from us?
26942we should have to ask: why has perception, feeling, logic, imagination, come to be just what it is?
29510And again, what these are, if they are two?
29510Are you then willing we should assume the contrary part, and consider what in the soul appears deformed?
29510Besides, how, from such an hypothesis can gold be beautiful?
29510But after what manner are the two beautiful?
29510But after what manner in this is commensuration to be found?
29510But how can that which is inherent in body, accord with that which is above body?
29510But where is the ship to be found by which we can accomplish our flight?
29510But you will ask, after what manner is this beauty of a worthy soul to be perceived?
29510Can anything so thoroughly destroy the phantom of false enthusiasm as establishing the real object of the true?
29510In the first place then, what is that, which, by its presence, causes the beauty of bodies?
29510In what respect then, shall we call these beautiful?
29510Lastly, of what kind is the beauty of intellect itself, abstracted from every corporeal concern, and intimately conversing with itself alone?
29510Let us reply by asking how the architect pronounces the building beautiful by accommodating the external structure the fabric of his soul?
29510May we not enquire after what manner they all partake of beauty?
29510Or in what manner can speculations themselves be called mutually commensurate?
29510Or the glittering of night and the glorious spectacle of the stars?
29510Or, what beauty is, if perfectly simple, and one?
29510Or, whether the beauty of bodies is of one kind, and the beauty of souls of another?
29510We still, therefore, repeat the question, What is the beauty of bodies?
29510What do you experience on perceiving yourselves lovely within?
29510What is it then, which causes bodies to appear fair to the sight, sounds beautiful to the ear, and science and virtue lovely to the mind?
29510What is it, then, this inward eye beholds?
29510What is the similitude then between the beauties of sense and that beauty which is divine?
29510What measures, then, shall we adopt?
29510What, then, must be the condition of that being, who beholds the beautiful itself?
29510Where the telescope which can see at what point in the universe wisdom first began?
29510Where, says Mr Harris, is the microscope which can discern what is smallest in nature?
29510Whether beauty is one and the same in all?
29510[ 8] But, by what leading stars shall we direct our flight, and by what means avoid the magic power of Circe, and the detaining charms of Calypso?
6366I can understand,he may say,"the value of expression for the sake of communication and influence, but what value can it have of itself?"
6366A king desires, perhaps, to perpetuate his memory; how better than through some enduring likeness in stone or paint?
6366And do we not find the masters of so abstract an art as ornament employing their materials to represent symbolic conceptions?
6366And how does he do it?
6366And if we can explain the reticence of blue through association with the sky, can we thus explain its quietness?
6366And what shall we think of a picture like the"Doctor"of Luke Fildes'', which is so pathetic that one can not bear to look at it?
6366And who is more luxurious than he?
6366And, I ask, why not grant to art its autonomy?
6366Art is not life over again, a mere shadow of life; if it were, what would be its unique value?
6366But can they express anything singly?
6366But did they deserve so hard a fate as theirs?
6366But how can space-- the most abstract thing in the world-- become alive?
6366But how can the good triumph when the hero fails and dies?
6366But just what is expressed through sound, and how?
6366But what shall we say in answer to the mystic who tells us that beauty is indefinable?
6366Can the warmth of fire and the excitement of blood explain quite all the depth of passionate feeling in red?
6366Can we say that certain ideas and images belong properly to the work of art, while others do not?
6366Did not Lear suffer as much for his folly as his daughters for their wickedness?
6366Does it not attach to the representation of the concrete, individual pond?
6366Does the philistine feed the poor and save the sinners?
6366How account for the actual chaos of judgment?
6366How can the representation of this sheer evil become a good?
6366How can this difference be accounted for?
6366How can we be reconciled to things that are admittedly incongruous with our standards?
6366How does it?
6366How is it with verse?
6366How shall we proceed in seeking such an idea of art?
6366How, they say, can one hope to distill into clear and stable ideas such a vaporous and fleeting matter as Aesthetic feeling?
6366If art has a unique purpose, different from that of science or morals, why should we not judge it in terms of that purpose?
6366If the question were raised, which is more fundamental in the aesthetic experience, idea or emotion?
6366If the repetition of the same color or line in painting, the same tone in music, can delight us, why not the repetition of the same word- sound?
6366Is there anything in poetry comparable to the expressiveness of single tones or of colors like red and blue and yellow?
6366Is this principle itself rational, and would art survive in a regime which embodied it?
6366It is a personal expression-- who, when listening to music which he enjoys, does not feel himself poured forth in the tones?
6366It is social and public-- what brings us together under the sway of a common emotion more effectively than concert or opera?
6366Life itself is the great temptation; how can one who can not look with equanimity upon statues and pictures fail to be seduced by live men and women?
6366Or, when Dante describes the_ selva oscura_, who does not see the darkness in the word_ oscura_?
6366PORENA, M. Che cos''e il bello?
6366Reformers and statesmen will enlighten us concerning reconstruction, why not turn to them?
6366TOLSTOY, L. What is Art?
6366The workman plows for him, cooks for him, builds for him, spins for him, but what does he do in return?
6366There is, of course, an observance of the general laws of color and space, but does the beauty of the picture consist in that?
6366This is always true in life, and Shakespeare holds the mirror up to nature-- but is it consistent with the theory of retributive justice?
6366We can get scientific truth from science, why then seek it in art?
6366We can obtain moral wisdom from the philosopher and priest, why require it of the artist?
6366Were it otherwise, who could stand the strain of_ Hamlet_ or_ Othello_?
6366What is there about aesthetic appreciation that makes it seemingly so recalcitrant to law?
6366What man has not rejoiced when the simple and cold judgment,"I suffered then,"has come to supplant a recurring torment?
6366What supreme worth does art possess that it should be valued so disproportionately?
6366What vividness of imagination or sentiment can transmute these dead and hollow masses into a life universally felt?
6366What young man nursed on Shelley''s poetry has not become a lover of freedom and an active force against all oppression?
6366Whence comes it?
6366Who consumes more in his own person of the energies of the toilers?
6366Who does not feel that Philip the Fourth is present on the Velasquez canvas; where else could one find him so alive?
6366Who is commonly more careless of the workers''needs and more cruel to the fallen in his self- righteous probity?
6366Who is he that would be the judge between worldly goods and beauty?
6366Why are we not rather displeased and angry with them?
6366Why is this?
6366Why, for example, does the painting of flowers by a real master afford a richer aesthetic experience than real flowers?
6366Why, if the comical object is always opposed to our demands, should we take pleasure in it?
6366Yet what is the universal truth asserted in one of Monet''s pictures of a lily pond?
6366who would not prefer the substance to the shadow?
6366yet who does not at the same time experience its assuagement?
12896Do you contemplate going to Washington to- morrow?
12896Indeed, to love Molière-- I mean to love him sincerely and with all one''s heart-- it is, do you know? 12896 Again, can it be said of Napoleon that he possessed good sense in a rare degree? 12896 And Job and the Psalms: what should we have done without them in English? 12896 And can we estimate the loss the modern mind would suffer by deprivation of them in translated form? 12896 And who then would say better things of Homer than Milton?
12896And why does Mr. Dayman say,"pious drops,"instead of piteous?
12896Are his Harolds and Giaours, we would ask, real men; we mean, poetically consistent and conceivable men?
12896Are we poetical?
12896Are we strong enough to digest this marrow of lion(_ cette moelle de lion_)?"
12896Are you aware what sort of a ridiculous figure your poor bald Jonathan would have cut?
12896Assent even to an intellectual proposition, does not it too presuppose an ideal in the mind of him who assents?
12896Beauty-- what is it?
12896But do not the presence of"vivacity of feeling with susceptibility to impression"imply the imaginative temperament?
12896But have we not in modern tongues the creations of Homer, and of Plato, who Shelley, on the same page, says is essentially a poet?
12896But is not a campaign of a great captain equally a work of genius?
12896But say: in th''hour of sweetest sighs, By what and how found Love relief And broke thy doubtful longing''s spell?"
12896But tell me, at the time of those sweet sighs, By what and in what manner Love conceded That you should know your dubious desires?''
12896But what is ideal power?
12896But why does he make Francesca address her companion personally, instead of saying,"who shall never part from me?"
12896But why separate them?
12896Can it be that Mr. Longfellow hereby aims to be more close to the form of Dante?
12896Can the_ terza rima_, as used by Dante, be called a stanza?
12896Can there be given to it an approximate answer?
12896Comment exprimer comme je le sens ma gratitude pour tant de soin, d''attention pénétrante, de désir d''être agréable tout en restant juste?
12896Could Columbus have given birth to"Don Quixote?"
12896Could Newton have written the"Fairy Queen?"
12896Could Spenser have discovered the law of gravitation?
12896Does Italy count Juliet among her trophies, or Desdemona?
12896Dr. Johnson found fault with Boswell for using the phrase to_ make_ money:"Do n''t you see the impropriety of it?
12896Has anything been lost in the transit from Italian words to English?
12896Have you then for M. Sainte- Beuve, some reader will be impatient to ask, nothing but praise?
12896He asks:"Have we then got him at last?
12896He might likewise ask, What is moral power?
12896Hence a cardinal question about a poem is, How much of it does the poet draw out of himself?
12896How could they see a Robert Burns?
12896How does the poetic Lorenzo word the other three lines?
12896How has this been accomplished?
12896In the whole"Inferno,"is there a sentence so aglow as this line and a half of"Paradise Lost"?
12896Is it not fullness and richness of feeling?
12896Is not Thomas Carlyle justly chargeable with having committed a high literary misdemeanor?
12896Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?...
12896Is our stomach up to him?
12896Is there a sudden play of light that warms, and, through this warmth, illuminates the object before him?
12896Is this true, is it false?
12896Is"Hamlet"on that score less English than"Lear,"or"Othello"than"Macbeth"?
12896Ma dimmi: al tempo de''dolci sospiri, A che, e come concedette Amore Che conosceste i dubbiosi desiri?
12896Now, the enjoyment of the few appreciators, what is its source?
12896On the fourth day one of Ugolino''s dying sons throws himself at his father''s feet, crying,--"Father, why dost not help me?"
12896Outside of the choice achievements of verse, is there a literary task of breadth and difficulty that has been done so well?
12896Shall we attempt what has been so often attempted and never fully achieved?
12896Shall we not eat oranges, because on being translated from Cuba to our palates they have lost somewhat of their flavor?
12896The better to meet the question,_ What_ is poetry?
12896The first question to ask in regard to a simile found in verse is, Is it poetical?
12896The least of our acts or motions, is it not always preceded by a thought, a volition, a something intangible, invisible?
12896They wept: and my dear Anselm said,"Thou look''st so, father, what hast thou?"
12896Think''st thou the honey with those objects grew?
12896WHAT IS POETRY?
12896WHAT IS POETRY?
12896Was there ever before anything like to that, so encouraging, so consoling, in the teaching and the precepts of the sages?
12896We ask, Were not the translators of the Bible as liable to err in grammar as De Quincey, or Wordsworth, or Shelley?
12896What constitutes the wealth of human life?
12896What has been done with the prose statement?
12896What is a national drama?
12896What is poetic imagination?
12896What is the nature of those feelings thus wrought upon?
12896What more convincing demonstration of the beauty and truth of the entirely historic personage, Jesus, than the Sermon on the Mount?"
12896What so precious treasure has England as Shakespeare?
12896What were the worth of a comment of John Locke on"Paradise Lost,"except to reveal the mental composition of John Locke?
12896What would the"Fairy Queen"be in blank verse?
12896When we had come to the fourth day Gaddo threw him stretched at my feet, Saying,"Father, why dost not help me?"
12896Whence this mysterious cleansing thrill?
12896Where in history is there a picture greater than that of the execution of Louis XVI.?
12896Whether stanzas, strictly speaking, or not, shall we say our mind frankly about the_ terza rima_?
12896Who is the artist?
12896Why did M. Sainte- Beuve make Goethe sovereign in criticism?
12896Why did he think Milton peculiarly qualified to interpret Homer?
12896Why is it that we so prize a fragment of Phidias, a few lines traced by Raphael?
12896a fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother''s grave?"
12896and what can our narrow ideas tell of the Highest Being?
12896do we know what these words mean?
12896obdurate earth, why didst not ope?
12896we begin by putting before it another, and ask,_ Where_ is poetry?
9306But if Poetry be a theoretic fact, in what way is it to be distinguished from science and from historical knowledge?
9306How can you, a professor of philosophy, dare to praise lying and the mixture of truth and falsehood?
9306If every Requiem, every lamenting Adagio, possessed the power to make us sad, who would be able to support existence in such conditions? 9306 Was Virgil a poet or an orator?"
9306What proof givest thou of all this?
9306Where,he exclaims,"is there any beauty that does not come from the feminine figure, the centre of all beauty?
9306Admitting that language is a sign, are we to take that as signifying a spiritual necessity(_ phusis_) or as a psychological convention(_ nomos_)?
9306And composition?
9306And how can such a question be answered, save by giving the history of their art( of their literature, that is to say, of their language in action)?
9306And if so, to what extent?
9306And is not this last truly determined, when one unique function is attributed to it, not spatializing nor temporalizing, but characterizing?
9306And style?
9306And the point of view of the author?
9306And what are the laws of_ words_ which are not at the same time laws of_ style_?
9306And what are the words cruelty, idyll, knighthood, domestic life, and so on, but the expression of those concepts?
9306And what could a( normative) grammar be, but just a technique of linguistic expression, that is to say, of a theoretic fact?
9306Are we to call the sounds content?
9306Art does not imitate nature, for what is nature, but that vast confusion of perceptions and representations that were referred to above?
9306As they are excluded from Aesthetic, in what other part of Philosophy will they be received?
9306But how can we pardon mediocre expression in pure artists?
9306But is not the loftiness of the search the reason why no satisfactory result has hitherto been obtained?
9306But the_ unconscious_ element In poetry?
9306But what could such a spatial function be, that should control even time?
9306But why?
9306Do they remain equal?
9306Do we ever, indeed, feel complete satisfaction before even the best of photographs?
9306Do we not obtain more powerful effects by uniting several?
9306Does it mean a qualitative, a formal difference?
9306Does not morality presuppose logical distinctions?
9306Does the aesthetic fact consist of content alone, or of form alone, or of both together?
9306Does the hypothesis correspond to reality?
9306Don Quixote is a type; but of whom is he a type, if not of all Don Quixotes?
9306Even though she were not also darkened by time, would not the impression be altogether different?
9306Expressive activity?
9306Externally?
9306From the same theory come the prejudices, owing to which at one time( and is it really passed?)
9306Granted different arts, distinct and limited, the questions were asked: Which is the most powerful?
9306Historical laws and historical concepts?
9306How can we find the historical genesis of that which is a category, by means of which every historical genesis and fact are understood?
9306How can we really will, if we do not know the world which surrounds us, and the manner of changing things by acting upon them?
9306How could a proposition be clearly thought and confusedly written out?
9306How could he will the_ rational_, unless he willed it also_ as his particular end_?
9306How could humanity appreciate works of genius, he asks, were it without some common measure?
9306How could that which is produced by a given activity be judged by a different activity?
9306How could these be known, otherwise than by expressions and words, that is to say, in imaginative form?
9306How could we judge what remained extraneous to us?
9306How far has the author succeeded in doing what he intended?
9306How obtain the same effect, when the conditions are no longer the same?
9306How often do we strive to understand clearly what is passing within us?
9306How should these contents be_ represented_?
9306How was he to emerge from this uncertainty, this contradiction?
9306How, indeed, could it be otherwise, if logical activity come after and contain in itself aesthetic activity?
9306How, then, can a comparison be made, where there is no comparative term?
9306If a landscape, why not a topographical sketch?
9306If a story; why not the occasional note of the journalist?
9306If an epigram be art, why not a single word?
9306If art be intuition, would it therefore be any intuition that one might have of a_ physical_ object, appertaining to_ external nature_?
9306If it be not deception, then what is the place of tragedy in philosophy and in the righteous life?
9306If it be spiritual, what is its true nature, and in what way does it differ from art and science?
9306If not, what becomes of the intuitive character, of which we have affirmed the equal necessity and also its identity with the former?
9306If so, what becomes of the lyrical character, of which we have asserted the necessity?
9306If utility were egoism, how could it be the duty of the altruist to behave like an egoist?
9306In what did the general decadence of Italian literature at the end of the sixteenth century consist?
9306In what other way could science be born, which, if aesthetic expressions be assumed in it, yet has for function to go beyond them?
9306In what way?
9306Inductive?
9306Internally?
9306Is art rational or irrational?
9306Is it spiritual or animal?
9306Is it their fitness which makes things seem beautiful?
9306Is poetry a rational or an irrational thing?
9306Is the beautiful that which seems ugly to no man?
9306Is the beautiful the helpful, that which leads to the good?
9306Is the beautiful to be found in ornament?
9306Is there anything more beautiful than Iago?
9306Let us assume that they limit themselves to the white race, and let us continue:"What sub- species of the white race?"
9306May it not be a residuum of criticisms and of negations from which arises merely the necessity to posit a generic intuitive activity?
9306Maybe they are visual?
9306No one before him, in antiquity, in the Middle Age, or in modern times, had seriously asked: What is the value of the distinctions between the arts?
9306Now why give oneself this trouble?
9306Now without staying to consider these two remarkable instances, let us ask, what is this essential characteristic of Taine?
9306Of what is it a mixture?
9306Of what kind must be these laws, these universals?
9306Of what use are they?
9306Or does it mean greater complexity and complication, a quantitative, material difference?
9306Or, better, when this is conceived as itself a category or function, which gives knowledge of things in their concretion and individuality?
9306Or, if it be practical, how can it be theoretic?
9306Perhaps it was all a pastime for him, like playing at patience, or collecting postage- stamps?
9306Perhaps such epithets as"lower"and"lowest"are irreconcilable with the dignity and with the splendid beauty of art?
9306Perhaps, as is generally said, because the correct word is in certain cases not so_ expressive_ as the so- called incorrect word or metaphor?
9306Should a free course be allowed to its pleasures?
9306Should it be submitted to a dialectic, by means of which it must be surpassed and dissolved into a more lofty point of view?
9306Sounds again?
9306The reader will probably ask here: But what, then, becomes of morality?
9306These are,_ firstly_, what is its_ peculiarity_, in what way is it singular, how is it differentiated from other works?
9306This, translated into scientific language, is tantamount to asking: What is the connexion between Acoustic and aesthetic expression?
9306To what the ugly?
9306To what unions of tones, colours, sizes, mathematically determinable?
9306To what use should it be put?
9306What are ever feelings that become apparent or manifest, but feelings objectified, intensified, expressed?
9306What are the limits between the figurative and the auditional arts, between painting and sculpture, poetry and music?
9306What are we to call form?
9306What can be represented with colours, and what with sounds?
9306What does Raphael mean by the"certain idea,"which he follows in his painting?
9306What does he call this new science?
9306What does secondary order mean here?
9306What have we done in both cases?
9306What is Aesthetic for Baumgarten?
9306What is art for Schiller?
9306What is it, then?
9306What is knowledge by concepts?
9306What is still lacking to him, that he may attain to speech?
9306What is syllogistic?
9306What is the aesthetic form of domestic life, of knighthood, of the idyll, of cruelty, and so forth?
9306What is the art of a given people but the complex of all its artistic products?
9306What is the beautiful?
9306What is the character of an art( say, Hellenic art or Provençal literature), but the complex physiognomy of those products?
9306What is the difference between their representation or image, and our intuitive knowledge?
9306What is the reason for poetry being obliged to seek verisimilitude?
9306What is this disinterested pleasure that we experience before pure colours, pure sounds, and flowers?
9306What is this new operation?
9306What is to be done if good taste and the real fact, put into formulas, sometimes assume the air of paradoxes?
9306What was Kant''s idea of art?
9306What weight did he attach to Schopenhauer''s much- vaunted writings on art?
9306What were the ideas developed by Vico in his_ Scienza nuova_( 1725)?
9306What will be their lot?
9306What with notes, and what with metres and rhymes?
9306What with simple monochromatic lines, and what with touches of various colours?
9306What would a picture be for a hypothetical man, deprived of all or many of his senses, who should in an instant acquire the sole organ of sight?
9306What would these Gods become without their limitations?
9306What, it says, is intuitive knowledge without the light of intellective knowledge?
9306What, then, is interesting?
9306What, then, is the possible, the something more, and the particular of poetry?
9306Whence does It come?
9306Which is the lesser evil?--great erudition and defective taste, or natural good taste and great ignorance?
9306Which of them comes first?
9306Which second?
9306Who among aestheticians has criticized this principle?
9306Who can deny the necessity and the utility of these groupings?
9306Who can help admiring their strength of will, although their activity is only economic, and is opposed to what we hold moral?
9306Who does not recall the great part played in literary history by the criticism of the verisimilar?
9306Who, without a similar act of interruptive reflexion, is conscious of temporal sequence while listening to a story or a piece of music?
9306Why take the worse and longer road when you know the shorter and better road?
9306Why, they asked with Aristotle, at the Renaissance, does poetry deal with the universal, history with the particular?
9306Would not an artist vary and touch up much or little, remove or add something to any of them?
9306Would one not attain to a work of art in this way, or at any rate to an artistic motive?
9306[ Sidenote]_ Examples: definitions of the sublime, the comic, and the humoristic._ What is the sublime?
9306and is the man at rest or at work, or is he occupied as is Paul Potter''s cow, or the Ganymede of Rembrandt?"