Horae Subsecivae Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1882 Excerpt: ... NOTES ON ART. 'The use of this feigned history' the Ideal Arts of Poesy, Painting, Music, &c.) 'hath been to give SOME SHADOW OP SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DENY IT, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof, there is, agreeable to the Spirit of man, A MORE AMPLE GREATNESS, A MORE EXACT GOODNESS, AND A MORE ABSOLUTE VARIETY, than can be found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that Poesy' (and the others') 'serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of dhiineness because IT DOTH RAISE AND ERECT THE MIND, BY SUBMITTING THE SHEWS OF THINGS TO THE DESIRES OF THE Mind; whereas reason' science, philosophy) 'doth buckle and bow the mind to the nature of things.'--Of THE Proficience And Advancement Of Learning. 'To look on noble forms Makes noble through the sensuous organism That which is higher.'--The Princess. The statue' of the Duke Lorenzo by Michael Angelo 'is larger than life, but not so large as to shock belief. It is the most real and unreal thing that ever came from the chisel.'--Note in Rogers's 'italy.' These two words, 'real and unreal? comprehend the philosophy of art; which proposes to itself the idealising of the real, and the realizing of the ideal. NOTES ON ART. /NE evening in the spring of 1846, as my wife and I were sitting at tea, Pafvula in bed, and the Sputchard reposing, as was her wont, with her rugged little brown forepaws over the edge of the fender, her eyes shut, toasting, and all but roasting herself at the fire, --a note was brought in, which, from its fat, soft look, by a hopeful and not unskilled palpitation I diagnosed as that form of lucre which in Scotland m...