A LIST OF BOOKS - JScholarship
A LIST OF BOOKS - JScholarship
A LIST OF BOOKS - JScholarship
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TO J. H. GRAHAM, ESQ. 135<br />
towers like a giant tree above the thousand<br />
Httle flowers, the thousand smaller shrubs,<br />
that unseen flourish in his shade.<br />
But his<br />
roots sink into the common mother; from<br />
her ascends the vital sap that circulates even<br />
to its leafy branches.<br />
Painting expresses<br />
something of the life of aU, of the faith of aU,<br />
of the presentiment of all. Itself a dumb<br />
Poetry, it seeks in a certain order of matter<br />
the symbols of the same feeling; it aspires<br />
to the same Ideal.<br />
More limited in the choice<br />
of materials, more definite in its process, it<br />
ranks on the scale of Art below Poetry, as<br />
the latter below Music.<br />
Yet it aids its two<br />
older sisters in their fflght towards the<br />
Infinite. It may be said, that whUst it<br />
accomplishes its share in the common labour<br />
of sympathetic expression of universal Hfe, it<br />
has the special task of refining, of transfiguring<br />
the form that imprisons it, of rendering<br />
pliant, palpitating, and luminous that
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