A LIST OF BOOKS - JScholarship
A LIST OF BOOKS - JScholarship
A LIST OF BOOKS - JScholarship
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10 INTEODUCTOEY ESSAY.<br />
Pushed to an extreme and manifested as a<br />
deformity, they will be seen plainest of all in<br />
the fault of either artist, when subsidiarily to<br />
the human interest of his work his occasional<br />
illustrations from<br />
scenic nature are introduced<br />
as in the earlier works of the originative<br />
painters—men and women filling the<br />
foreground with consummate mastery, while<br />
mountain, grove and rivulet show<br />
like an<br />
anticipatory revenge on that succeeding race<br />
of landscape-painters whose "figures" disturb<br />
the perfection of their earth and sky. It<br />
would be idle to inquire, of these two kinds<br />
of poetic faculty in operation, which is the<br />
higher or even rarer endowment. If the<br />
subjective might<br />
seem to be the ultimate<br />
requirement of every age, the objective, in<br />
the strictest state, must still retain its original<br />
value.<br />
For it is with this world, as starting<br />
point and basis aKke, that we shall always<br />
have to concern ourselves : the world is not to
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