What is important, then…– Walter Pater
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms,
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world,
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’
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