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The Gospel of Joy. E-book. Formato PDF Stopford A. Brooke - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
There are those who know they are doing wrong, who will not let loose their sin, yet whose intellect, imagination and easy fervour run to meet a higher view of life and of religion. The downright truth about them is that unless they banish the dark thing, root it out and cast it from them, they may see the light but will not keep it; may touch it and yet turn it into corruption. We must give up what we know to be sin. Then, when the kingdom of God opens before us, we can not only enter into it, but abide it] it. When that is done, the next step is possible, the putting on of the armour of light. The inspiration has come to us new thought, and aims, and emotions; new views of God, new views of man.
The Gallery of Famous Painters: A History of Art in All Counties and Ages. E-book. Formato PDF Stothert - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
What is Art? We owe, what we consider the best definition, to one who never meddled with paints, or marble, yet who helped on the cause of art in his day with an energy of practice and a blaze of enthusiasm which has rarely been equalled before or since. This was Benvenuto Cellini, the immortal jeweller of the sixteenth century, and he says in effect that the aim of art is "to produce a representation of a beautiful human figure, with correctness of design and in a graceful altitude." If we approve this definition, and keep it in mind, it will greatly simplify our estimate of the men and works we shall ltavc to discuss in the present work—The History of Art,But, "What is the history of painting to me?" maybe the remark of a worthy citizen whose eye lights on the title-page of our history: "I leave all that to artists, to picture-dealers and their customers, and perhaps to a few young ladies who arc learning to sketch." Softly, my good sir; with your leave, it may be possible to show that a great many more people than you think for arc gifted by nature with a capacity for deriving enjoyment from Art; and that their indifference, it maybe, to it is due quite as much to want of opportunity, as to inaptitude. Who can have failed to notice the intense delight children take in harmonious combinations of colors? How catching is a broad grin reflected from a Teniers, or a Van der Meer, to the eye of a holiday gazer!
The Poetry of Robert Browning. E-book. Formato PDF Stopford Augustus Brooke - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Bells of poetry's music, hung side by Side with the golden Pomegranates of thought, made the fringe of the robe of this high priest of song. Rarely have imagination and intellect, ideal faith and the sense which handles daily life, passion and quietude, the impulse and self-mastery of an artist, the joy of nature and the fates of men, grave tragedy and noble grotesque, been mingled together more fully — bells for the pleasure and fruit for the food of man.