 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 pages
...more refining. Beauty is inflexible : it appears to us a dream, when we contemplate the works of the great artists ; it is a hovering, floating, and glittering...outline eludes the grasp of definition. Mendelssohn, the philosopher, grandfather of the composer, and others, tried to catch Beauty as a butterfly, and... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 422 pages
...more refining. Beanty is inflexible : it appears to ns a dream, when we contemplate the works of the great artists ; it is a hovering, floating, and glittering...shadow, whose outline eludes the grasp of definition. Mendelsshon, the philosopher, grandfather of the composer, and others, tried to catch Beanty ns a butterfly,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 pages
...more refining. Beauty is inflexible : it appears to us a dream, when we contemplate the works of the' great artists ; it is a hovering, floating, and glittering...shadow, whose outline eludes the grasp of definition. Mendelsshon, the philosopher, grandfather of the composer, and others, tried to catch Beauty as a butterfly,... | |
 | Samuel Byron Brittan - 1864 - 606 pages
...subject : " Beauty is inexplicable. It appears to us a dream, when we contemplate the -works of the great artists. It is a hovering, floating, and glittering...the grasp of definition. Mendelssohn, and others, trirtl to catch beauty as a butterfly, and pin it down for inspection. They have succeeded in the same... | |
 | Samuel Byron Brittan - 1864 - 598 pages
...appears to us a dream, when we contemplate the works of the great artists. It is a hovering, Hooting, and glittering shadow, whose outline eludes the grasp of definition. Mendelssohn, and others, trifid to catch beauty as a butterfly, and pin it down for inspection. They have succeeded in the same... | |
 | William Mathews - 1878 - 476 pages
...the living flower. The life escapes his grasp.* Who, again, can explain the * Beauty, says Goethe, " Is inexplicable ; it appears to us as a dream, when...a hovering, floating, and glittering shadow, whose o others tried to catch I They have succeeded i butterfly. The poor an tlinc elude? the grasp of definition.... | |
 | William Mathews - 1891 - 468 pages
...the living, flower. The life escapes his grasp.* Who, again, can explain the * Beauty, says Goethe, " is inexplicable; it appears to us as a dream, when...contemplate the works of great artists; it is a hovering. Unaling, and glittering shadow, whose ontline eludes the grasp of definition. Mendelssohn and others... | |
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Goethe, u is inexplicable; it appears to us as a dream, when we contemplate the works of great artists; it is a hovering, floating, and glittering shadow, whose outline eludes the grasp of definition. 