 | Arthur Cary Fleshman - 1908 - 336 páginas
...Arnold—To see things in their beauty is to see things in their truth. Emerson expresses the same fact: "Truth and goodness and beauty are but different faces of the same All." Goethe writes: " Beauty is inexplicable, it is a hovering and glittering shadow, whose outline eludes... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - 1909 - 360 páginas
...at all things, * Compare the chapter on " Beauty," in Emerson's " Nature." " This element (Beauty) I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or...profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. . . . The ancient Greeks called the world Beauty." To bind them all about with tiny rings. Linger awhile... | |
 | John Smith Harrison - 1910 - 323 páginas
...which each is but a phase of the divine presence. Thus he sums up his account of beauty with the words: "Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is...God is the all-fair. Truth and goodness, and beauty, 1 Complete Works, I., 20-21. are but different faces of the same All." l Such identification is characteristic... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 669 páginas
...Nature, chap. iii: "The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in itk largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the allfair. Truth and... | |
 | Henry David Gray - 1917 - 110 páginas
...329), it follows that the principles of art are to be deduced from the nature of beauty. It is because "Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe" (I, 30) that "Art should . . . throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1918
...obtained it for publication in his Western Messenger in 1839. Pig* 3S, note I. "This element [Beauty] I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or...the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profbundest sense, is one expression for the universe." — Nature, Addresses and Lectures, p. 24.... | |
 | John Louis Haney - 1923 - 399 páginas
...Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. . . . The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. . . . Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. . . . But beauty in nature is not ultimate. ... It must stand as a part and not as yet the last or... | |
 | Irving Babbitt, Van Wyck Brooks, William Crary Brownell, Ernest Augustus Boyd, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Henry Louis Mencken, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Joel Elias Spingarn, George Edward Woodberry - 1924 - 330 páginas
...EMERSON (Journals, 1838). "Beauty is its own excuse for being." — EMERSON. "This element [Beauty] I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or...beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, 1 See page 288. 321 is one expression for the universe. . . . Like Truth, it is an ultimate aim of... | |
 | Irving Babbitt, Van Wyck Brooks, William Crary Brownell, Ernest Augustus Boyd, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Henry Louis Mencken, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Joel Elias Spingarn, George Edward Woodberry - 1924 - 330 páginas
...EMERSON (Journals, 1838). "Beauty is its own excuse for being." — EMERSON. "This element [Beauty] I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or...beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, 1 See page 288. is one expression for the universe. . . . Like Truth, it is an ultimate aim of the... | |
 | René Wellek - 1977 - 363 páginas
...incarnation of a thought, and turns to a thought again.« »The world is mind precipitated.« 12. W, i, 24: »God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.« Seite 23 — 24: ». . .the standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms, — the totality... | |
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I call an ultimate end. No reason can' be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the... 
