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...Excerpt: There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness o...

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...h the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmi... ...to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportun... ...rt Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I ON SOME TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF STYLE IN LITERATURE* THERE IS NOTHING more disenchanting to man than to be shown the spring... ...the fault of our analysis than from any poverty native to the mind. And perhaps in aesthetics the reason is the same: those disclo- sures which seem f... ...steful business: taking down the picture from the wall and looking on the back; and, like the inquiring child, pulling the musical cart to pieces. 1. ... ...y a suc- cession of groups identical in length. The prose writer, in fact, since he is allowed to be so much less harmonious, is condemned to a perpet... ...d with the delivery of prose. But we can go beyond such answers. The weak side of verse is the regularity of the beat, which in itself is decidedly le... ...trange that the government of Scot- land, having been during many years greatly more corrupt than the government of England, should have fallen with a... ... of man’s life; but it has recently (at least in France) fallen into a merely technical and decorative stage, which it is, perhaps, still too harsh to...

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...osed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to express, in the purest French then spoken in France: ?There is Monsieur returning from hunting.? And that was all....

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...am- parts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any oth... ...h brown complexion and brown hair, splendid, from eyes which sparkled beneath strongly- marked brows, and particularly from her teeth, which seemed to... ... gallop of a horse resounded under the porch of the castle. “What is that?” said Montalais, approaching the window. “A handsome cavalier, by my faith!... ...art; she rose from the table, Monsieur imitated her mechanically, and all the domestics, with a buzzing like that of several bee-hives, surrounded Rao... ...d; the men breathed as if they had been taken out of a coffin, and examined each other complacently. After this examination they turned their eyes tow... ...with him to several reconnoiterings, in such a way as to obtain that which he evidently warmly desired, — a re- habilitation in the mind of D’Artagnan... ... Done, a Country-seat from a Deal Box THE KING’S WORDS regarding the wounded pride of Monk had not inspired D’Artagnan with a small portion of ap- pre... ..., why then we shall share the almonds, raisins and prunes, and we will nibble together the last quarter of Dutch cheese.” D’Artagnan could hold out no... ...you please, and I will draw mine.” “Oh! the lovely sum! Monsieur d’Artagnan, the lovely sum!” “I confess that half an hour ago I regretted that I had ...

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... Thy works are not as those of other men, simply and merely great works of art; but are also like the phenomena of nature, like the sun and the sea, t... ... they meet and criticise as they would a picture, statue, or other work of art. But I need not trouble myself with any attempt to describe the spirit ... ...s; a task which might be easy enough three or four centuries ago, when the art was little understood, and few great models had been exhibited; but in ... ...or Milton in poetry, like Michael Angelo in paint- ing, he has carried his art to a point of colossal sublimity; and, as Mr. Wordsworth observes, has ... ...ted the taste by which he is to be enjoyed.” T o sketch the history of the art, and to examine its principles critically, now re- mains as a duty for ... ... from her labor of triumph. What remained was— to suffer. All this forward movement was her own: excepting one man, the whole council was against her.... ...of successes so giddy? Let her enemies declare. During the progress of her movement, and in the centre of ferocious struggles, she had manifested the ... ...amiliarity that seemed to us suffi- ciently jacobinical. But all at once a movement of the horses announced a desperate intention of leaving us behind... ...self in the maniac light of his eye, might be the last vibration of such a movement; the glory of Salamanca might be the first—but the intervening lin...

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................................. 129 CHAPTER VII OF THE INCONVENIENCE OF GREATNESS ............................................ 150 CHAPTER VIII OF THE ART OF CONFERENCE ................................................................. 156 CHAPTER IX OF VANITY.......................................................................................................... 181 CHAPTE...

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...TNESS ............................................ 150 CHAPTER VIII OF THE ART OF CONFERENCE ............................................................ ...ess, that what I call freedom, simplicity, and plainness in my manners, is art and subtlety, and rather prudence than goodness, industry than nature, ... ...or they are full of mistrust, and ’tis hard to overreach them in their own art: witness the 13 Montaigne sad experience we have lately had.—[Montaign... ...osophy, to the roughest and most violent hu- man actions. Was it nature or art that had intenerated that great courage of his, so full, so obstinate a... ...knowledge? And is it also reason that I should produce to the world, where art and handling have so much credit and authority, crude and simple effect... ...rily do what I do thoroughly and make but one step on’t; I have rarely any movement that hides itself and steals away from my reason, and that does no... ...r marriage delights to learn Ionic dances, and to imitate those lascivious movements. Nay, already from her infancy she meditates criminal amours.”—Ho... ...ot—[Canvas spread along the side of a ship of war, in action to screen the movements of those on board.]—They formed the front of their battle with th... ...sometimes moved by one breath, and sometimes by another; and many of these movements there are that govern themselves without me: my reason has uncert...

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...waiting for some one, but he hardly knew why the idea arrested him. There was nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of interest: it was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions....

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...as nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of interest: it was characteristic of her that she al- ways roused... ...r, the crisp upward wave of her hair—was it ever so slightly brightened by art?—and the thick planting of her straight black lashes. Everything about ... ... time—and you won’t meet any bores.” Her colour deepened—she still had the art of blushing at the right time—but she took the suggestion as lightly as... ...midity might serve her purpose better than too much assurance. She had the art of giving self-confi- dence to the embarrassed, but she was not equally... ...nd where he was initiated with becoming reverence into every detail of the art of accumulation. As far as Lily could learn, this had hitherto been Mr.... ...Carry Fisher, with all the energy of eye and gesture with which nature and art had combined to endow her, pressed on him the duty of taking part in th... ... of wheels, and divined that more visitors were approach- ing. There was a movement behind her, a scattering of steps and voices: it was evident that ... ...tell you he’s a chap it pays to be decent to.” Miss Bart made an impatient movement, but suppressed the words which seemed about to accompany it. Afte... ...ession she had produced, she held herself aloof from the audience till the movement of dispersal before supper, and thus had a second opportunity of s...

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...AMS......107 CHAPTER IX - BEGGARS...................................118 CHAPTER X - LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART............................................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRISTMAS SERMON.........140...

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...PTER X - LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLE- MAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART............................................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRIST... ...s of that glaring description which we count too obvious for the purposes of art. The landing at Jersey City was done in a stampede. I had a fixed sen... ...ly this air is to be considered good or bad; but it belongs to that class of art which may be best described as a brutal assault upon the feelings. Pa... ...rs on the bench. The most passive were continually and roughly shaken by the movement of the train; others stirred, turned, or stretched out their arm... ...; “it would be terrible to have a dead body!” And there was a very gen- eral movement to leave the man behind at the next station. This, by good fortu... ... better days, but was besides an exercise of culture, where all they knew of art and letters was united and expressed. And it made a man’s heart sorry... ...a- cious classical contentment are of the very essence of the better kind of art; and these, in that most smiling forest, he has the chance to learn o...

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...Sevres biscuit. I am going to tone that down; I know all the secrets of my art. And where will you allow us to send it to you? Your address?” “My addr... ...y fortune again.” “Perhaps he will help you. And what else?” “He says thou art very clever.” “It is very possible. You believe it yourself, my father?... ...bought the first pic- ture of his life, and now he was already thinking of art- patronage as a fascinating pursuit. His reflections quick- ened his go... ...a. I want the biggest kind of entertainment a man can get. People, places, art, nature, everything! I want to see the tallest mountains, and the blues... ...d not a real genius for the matter, or she would have pursued the charming art for itself. The poor lady was very incomplete. She fell back upon the h... ...ed perfection, the 40 The American proposed ideal, he made an instinctive movement to gather his wits together. Through the slight preoccupation that... ...But even granting that the prize might be great, Newman could not resist a movement of admira- tion for his companion’s intrepidity. She was throwing ... ...last fit of personal embarrassment he was ever to know. He per- formed the movement which was so frequent with him, and which was always a sort of sym... ... then, “In former years,” she said. Her brother had been watching Newman’s movement. “Perhaps you would like to examine the house,” he said. Newman sl...

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...G AWAKE.............................................................................................................................. 62 THE GHOST OF ART.................................................................................................................... 69 OUT OF TOWN .............................................................................................

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................................................. ........... 62 THE GHOST OF ART........................................................................... ...to mingle with the murmuring market in the lower town, and get lost in its movement and bustle. It is very agreeable on an idle sum mer morning to pu... ...e joint Ducasse of the milliners and tailors, a wholesome knowledge of the art of making common and cheap things uncommon and pretty, by good sense an... ...m and water. I embraced the oppor tunity of asking how many divisions the art and mystery of bill sticking comprised? He replied, three—auctioneers’ ... ...ld composed of Paper or of Linen, that impressions of the finer getting up art, practised by the laundress, are to be printed off, all over his soft a... ...me in mind of Benjamin Franklin , and so Benjamin Franklin’s paper on the art of procuring pleasant dreams, which would seem necessarily to include t...

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...Contents: I. Landfalls and Departures IV. Emblems of Hope VII. The Fine Art X. Cobwebs and Gossamer XIII. The Weight of the Burden XVI. Overdue and Missing XX. The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West...

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...ad Contents: I. Landfalls and Departures IV. Emblems of Hope VII. The Fine Art X. Cobwebs and Gossamer XIII. The Weight of the Burden XVI. Overdue and... ... almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art—which is art. As men of scrupulous honour set up a high stan- dard of p... ... dead-level of an honest community, so men of that skill which passes into art by ceaseless striving raise the dead- level of correct practice in the ... ... of haste; it takes count of passing days, of men who pass away, of a fine art matured slowly in the course of years and doomed in a short time to pas... ...- vice being given on other grounds than that of util- ity. The bondage of art is very exacting. And, as the writer of the article which started this ... ...it with incredulous and fascinated awe, as one watches the confused, swift movements of some deed of violence done in the dark. As if at a given signa... ...sely- clasped hands hanging between his knees, he uttered no word, made no movement till the shadow of our ship’s sails fell on the boat, when, at the...

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...o a power, of which, hitherto, they had never enjoyed a fraction. It was a movement per saltum, beyond all that history has recorded. At cock-crow the... ...w developing her strength, no longer the safe and docile arena for popular movements which once she was, with a people that were scattered and habits ... ...it become more important to hang weights and retarding forces upon popular movements amongst the laboring classes. This being so, we have never been a... ...nal openly anticipates an- other and more diffusive result from this great movement; viz. the general disruption of church establishments. We trust th... ...ladies of distinction—especially those of Palestine, and it was a trial of art to throw these into the greatest possible varieties of convolution, and... ...ally so, ample scope would, in that case, have been obtained for inventive art: variations without end might then have been devised on the fashion or ... ... such are still to be seen upon the monuments of Egyptian and Persepolitan art, was fastened round the head by a ribbon or 60 Theological Essays and ... ...pose, and from the richness of the setting—to say nothing of the exquisite art which the ancient lapidaries displayed in cutting them. The stones chie... ...stimulation to vanity in the love of change from an inventive condition of art and manufacturing skill, and where the system and interests of the gove...

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...e soul of great artists when, in the flush of youth and of their ardor for art, they approach a man of genius or a masterpiece. In all human sentiment... ... The Hidden Masterpiece not beaten loudly as he approached a master of his art? If there be, that man will forever lack some heart-string, some touch,... ... indefinable modesty which men born to glory lose in the practice of their art, as a pretty woman loses hers among the artifices of coquetry, then thi... ...the first time an atelier filled with the materials and instruments of his art. Daylight came from a casement in the roof and fell, focussed as it wer... ...es- ervation of the divine afflatus through the dark days when the life of art was in jeopardy. This noble picture represents the Mary of Egypt as she... ...he chisel of a man who, without ser- vilely copying that hand, can give it movement and life. It is our mission to seize the mind, soul, countenance o... ... will of their owner. The unnatural brightness of his eyes, the convulsive movements which seemed the result of some mental resistance, gave to this f... ...model called the Beautiful Nut-girl; he will see it rise and fall with the movement of her breathing. Yet—I wish I could be sure—” “Go to Asia, then,”...

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...sity. 3 H. G . Wells Ann Veronica A Modern Love Story by H. G. Wells “The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so c... ...ER F O HER F O HER FA A A A ATHER THER THER THER THER P P P P Par ar ar ar art 1 t 1 t 1 t 1 t 1 ONE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON in late September, Ann V eron... ...ed, “dammit!” with great bitter- ness as he faced it. P P P P Par ar ar ar art 2 t 2 t 2 t 2 t 2 ANN VERONICA STANLEY was twenty-one and a half years ... ...ities began to come back into her mind, thinly disguised as literature and art. She read voraciously, and presently, because of her aunt’s censorship,... ...ch Ann Veronica had become very friendly. Mr. Widgett was a journalist and art critic, addicted to a greenish-gray tweed suit and “art” brown ties; he... ...ith her, vaguely disliking her physical insufficiency and her con- vulsive movements, and the fine eyebrows were knit with a faint perplexity. Essenti... ...husband should be. But there was, it insisted, no mobility in his face, no movement, nothing 48 Ann Veronica about him that warmed. If Ann Veronica c... ...to be all armed with nets and prepared to throw them over her directly her movements became in any manner truly free. She had a feeling as though some... ...r mask of serene contentment. That delightful sense of free, unembarrassed movement was gone. As she neared the bottom of the dip in Piccadilly she sa...

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...beauty, based upon comparisons, flatters the most sensitive self-esteem. A movement of their eyebrows, the slightest play of the eye, the curling of t... ...to rise, to sit down. Each one of them kept a close watch on his slightest movements. It seemed as if he were some en- chanted person upon whom the ha... ...to sit down beside the young lady he needed a folding-chair. His slightest movements were marked by the inert heaviness, the stupid hesitancy, which c... ...arked by the inert heaviness, the stupid hesitancy, which characterize the movements of a paralytic. He sat slowly down upon his chair with great caut... ...ory. If the old man turned his eyes toward the company, it seemed that the movements of those globes, no longer capable of reflecting a gleam, were ac... ...nificently framed painting. We stood for a moment gazing at that marvel of art, which seemed the work of some supernatural brush. The picture represen... ...the Marquis de Marigny, Madame de Pompadour’s brother, who did so much for art. Diderot praised Bouchardon’s pupil’s statue as a masterpiece. Not with... ...Sarrasine was Bouchardon’s guest for six years. Fanatically devoted to his art, as Canova was at a later day, he rose at dawn and went to the studio, ... ...divided his time between his studio work and ex- amination of the works of art which abound in Rome. He had already passed a fortnight in the ecstatic...

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..., as relative to all. In human works, tho’ labour’d on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God’s, one single can its end produ... ... one disposing pow’r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; Al... ...shew an ape. Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his mind? Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend, Exp... ...nd; Alas what wonder! man’s superior part Uncheck’d may rise, and climb from art to art; But when his own great work is but begun, What reason weaves,... ...’s smiling train, Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain, These mixt with art, and to due bounds confin’d, Make and maintain the balance of the min... ...As the mind opens, and its functions spread, Imagination plies her dang’rous art, And pours it all upon the peccant part. Nature its mother, habit is ... ...y , the hero’s pride, All, all alike, find reason on their side. Th’ eternal art educing good from ill, Grafts on this passion our best principle: ’ T...

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... in it. In other days, when the Salon presented only the choicest works of art, it conferred the highest honor on the creations there exhibited. Among... ... astonishment of the public, they filled the whole space. Historical, high-art, genre paintings, easel pictures, landscapes, flowers, animals, and wat... ...t selection by the Acad- emy there will be no Salon, and without the Salon art may perish. 5 Balzac Ever since the catalogue has grown into a book, m... ... he has never recognized within himself sufficient faculty to attempt high-art, and he therefore clings to easel painting. At the beginning of the mon... ...Yes—they want their portraits taken. These bourgeois— they are crazy about art—have never dared to enter a studio. The girl has a ‘dot’ of a hundred t... ...twitching of the hairs of his beard, the irony of his mous- tache, and the movement of his shoulders which betrayed the satisfaction of Walter Scott’s... ... three occupied a great position and were, in fact, at the head of the art movement, were filled with pity for the perseverance and the poverty of the...

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...urried footsteps and anxious faces succeeded. The novice in the mili- tary art flew from point to point, retarding his own prepara- tions by the exces... ... rendered his swarthy linea- ments still more savage and repulsive than if art had attempted an effect which had been thus produced by chance. His eye... ...way along the military road in her front. Though this sudden and startling movement of the Indian produced no sound from the other, in the surprise he... ...uest as saddle horses, on account of their hardiness and the ease of their movements. As they were also sure of foot, the Narragansetts were greatly s... ... a horse, was unable, with his utmost ingenuity, to decide by what sort of movement his pursuer worked his sinuous way on his footsteps with such pers... ...ous way on his footsteps with such persevering hardihood. The industry and movements of the rider were not less re- markable than those of the ridden.... ...fice. I lay claim to no higher gift than a small insight into the glorious art of petitioning and thanksgiving, as prac- ticed in psalmody.” “The man ... ...one, ignorant as I, to hear the opinions and experience of a master in the art.” “It is refreshing both to the spirits and to the body to indulge in p... ...mellow tenor than the bass you heard.” “Is he, then, much practiced in the art of psalmody?” de- manded her simple companion. Alice felt disposed to l...

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...f poetry as Aristotle, and nearly as eloquent an expounder of the rules of art and the glories of genius as Longinus. In the same year, Pope printed “... ...his fine epistle to Jervas, the painter. Pope was passionately fond of the art of painting, and practised it a good deal under Jervas’s instructions, ... ... more complete pieces. They constantly applied themselves not only to that art, but to that single branch of an art, to which their talent was most po... ...t we ought to judge of pastorals. And since the instructions given for any art are to be deliv- ered as that art is in perfection, they must of necess... ...lexander Pope – V olume One The hills and rocks attend my doleful lay; Why art thou prouder and more hard than they? The bleating sheep with my compla... ... relative to all. In human works, though labour’d on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God’s, one single can its end produce... ...ow an ape. Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his mind? Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend, Expla... ...ition— Could He, who taught each planet where to roll, Describe or fix one movement of the soul? Who mark’d their points to rise or to descend, Explai... ... Earl of Peterborough, a man distinguished by the rapidity of his military movements—a petty Napoleon. 217 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V o...

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...ry book that moves us human. Some seem written with knowledge of the black art, set our base passions aflame, disclose mo- tives at which we shudder—t... ...alities. We shall need a new Renaissance, ushered in by a new “humanistic” movement, in which we shall add our present minute, introspective study of ... ...efore we can become with steady confidence our own masters and pilots. The art of being humans begins with the practice of being genuine, and followin... ...preme heat and mastery which is without splutter or noise of any kind. The art of power in this sort is no doubt learned in hours of reflection, by th... ...rms of government, more righteous ways of labor, more elevat- ing forms of art, and which makes the greater among us states- men, reformers, philanthr... ...s your own. Gossips are only sociologists upon a mean and petty scale. The art of being human lifts to be a better level than that of gossip; it leave...

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...les, Parma, and Rome. To this day, when I am reduced to make a trade of my art, I more often than not give way to my ruling passion. I give these poor... ...orary effect; they do not persistently contribute to the whole mass of the movement by their steady and regular progress. Beethoven assigns its part t... ...y from the first. Like the various companies which, by their disci- plined movements, contribute to winning a battle, the or- chestral parts of a symp... ...of vocalization. “The Italian school has lost sight of the high mission of art. Instead of elevating the crowd, it has condescended to the crowd; it h... ...l-nature, “must have given much time to the study of these high matters of art; you could not otherwise explain them so clearly.” This word made many ... ...he cook more crazy than Gambara. This serious and pious way of speaking of art interested the Milanese extremely. Seated between these two distracted ... ...en have been condemned whose brains were busy with innovations, whether in art, science, or politics. Fate, or the instincts of their mind which canno... ...melody. It was needful to express the wonderful energy of this great human movement which created an architecture, a music, a poetry of its own, a cos...

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... closer cal- culations. His line was once the hat; but his talents and the art with which he snared the wariest provincial had brought him such commer... ...suasive eloquence, the knack of loosening the tightest purse- strings, the art of rousing desire in the souls of husbands, wives, children, and servan... ...bers. The proprietors of the “Globe,” an organ of Saint-Simonism, and the “Movement,” a republican journal, each invited the illustrious Gaudissart to... ...,’ just as I say when I get ten subscrip- tions to a newspaper called the ‘Movement,’ ‘I’ve got ten Movements.’ Now don’t you see?” “That’s all right.... ... goose! Listen, Jenny. See here, I am going to undertake the ‘Globe,’ the ‘Movement,’ the ‘Children,’ the insurance business, and some of my old artic... ... being, I must give myself wholly to the capitalists; to the ‘Globe,’ the ‘Movement,’ the ‘Chil- dren,’ and my article Paris.” “You will be brought up... ... and joviality of manners, smother before long the sentiment 19 Balzac of art, narrow the widest heart, and enervate the strongest will. T ransplant ... ...intolerable solely because they have reached the perfection of the mocking art. Right or wrong, the T ourangians are fond of inheriting from their par... ...that event, or you will receive them in the long run through your works of art, your writings, or your fortunate speculations during your lifetime. Bu...