Hermais: A Study in Comparative EstheticsJ.M. Dent & sons limited, 1915 - 429 Seiten |
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absolute music activity affection analogous appear artistic aspect becomes Beethoven conscience consciousness creative deeper discord divine emotion essence essential esthetic estheticism ethical evil evolution existence experience expression expressional external fact gives harmony heart Hegel Hence higher highest human human voice ideal idealisation ideas imagination impulse infinite inner inner sphere inspiration intellect interior intuition J. S. Mill man's manifestation material matter means mediumship melody mental merely mind modes of beauty monism moral feeling moreover motive music expresses musical modes mystical nature non-moral objective ourselves outer outer plane painter painting phenomenal philosophy physical pictorial picture plane plastic arts poet poetic poetry possible principle properly pure realise reality realm reason regarded relation religion sense sentiment soul speak spiritual stands suggestion T. H. Green things thought true true song truth ultimate unity universe vital volition whereas whilst words
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Seite 55 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Seite 70 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Seite 50 - Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
Seite 55 - Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods ; Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature...
Seite 158 - Prose writers have also been inspired by Music to their highest eloquence. " Music," said Plato, " is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form.
Seite 192 - Besides that definite consciousness of which Logic formulates the laws, there is also an indefinite consciousness which cannot be formulated. Besides complete thoughts, and besides the thoughts which though incomplete admit of completion, there are thoughts which it is impossible to complete ; and yet which are still real, in the sense that they are normal affections of the intellect.
Seite 191 - ... ways, arriving late, But ever coming in time to crown The truth, and hurl wrongdoers down. He is the oldest, and best known, More near than aught thou call'st thy own, Yet, greeted in another's eyes, Disconcerts with glad surprise. This is Jove, who, deaf to prayers, Floods with blessings unawares. Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.
Seite 166 - I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
Seite 106 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Seite 402 - I conceive a man as always spoken to from behind, and unable to turn his head and see the speaker.