Art and Archaeology, Opseg 12

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Archaeological Institute of America, 1921
 

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Stranica 81 - Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! this our fathers did for us.
Stranica 121 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Stranica 228 - Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.
Stranica 255 - Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime ; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.
Stranica 55 - The European Tour," analysing the character of the art of Belgium, remarks: "These Flemish belfries are in themselves very interesting relics, because they were the first symbols of corporate existence and municipal power which every town wished to erect in the Middle Ages. The use of the bell was to summon the citizens to arms in defence of their rights, or to counsel for their common liberties. Every Teutonic burgher community desired to wring the right of erecting such a belfry from its feudal...
Stranica 73 - Son tablier d'argent plein de notes magiques, Réveillant sans pitié les dormeurs ennuyeux, Sautant à petits pas comme un oiseau joyeux, Vibrant, ainsi qu'un dard qui tremble dans la cible ; Par un frêle escalier de cristal invisible, Effarée et dansante, elle descend des cieux ; Et l'esprit, ce veilleur fait d'oreilles et d'yeux ', Tandis qu'elle va, vient, monte et descend encore, Entend de marche en marche errer son pied sonore ! Malines-Louvain, 19 août 1837.
Stranica 48 - Art is long. The artist must buckle himself with infinite patience. His ears must be deaf to the clamor of his insistent friends who would quicken his pace. His eyes must see naught but the vision beyond. He must await the season of fruitage without haste, without worldly ambitions, without vexation of spirit.
Stranica 73 - Que l'œil croit voir, vêtue en danseuse espagnole, Apparaître soudain par le trou vif et clair Que ferait en s'ouvrant une porte de l'air.
Stranica 34 - So saying, he took his stand on a rock of Parnassus, and drew from his quiver two arrows of different workmanship, one to excite love, the other to repel it. The former was of gold and sharp pointed, the latter blunt and tipped with lead. With the...
Stranica 122 - ... self-control, the conscientiousness of the philosopher, who reflected well before he spoke; of the moralist, who realized to the full the responsibilities of utterance. The dignity of the man and his simplicity; his strength, his inflexibility and his tenderness; his goodness and his courage; his intellectual confidence and his humility of soul; the poetic cast of his thought; the homely rigor of his manner; and the underlying sadness of his spirit,— all these may be read in the wonderfully...

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