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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... 1847 ART AND SCIENCE 211 CHAPTER XIII 1847-1849 Return1ng to Edinburgh early in August 1847, Miss Rigby takes up her Journal again: -- Aug. 6.--Art is like instinct, incommunicable: one age may bequeath statues and pictures to another, but it cannot bequeath knowledge. Science can be bequeathed; one fact after another is laid up. Faraday may take up where Davy left off, for science lies without the man, but art is partly within, partly without. Art is destined to rise and fall, to bud, blossom, and decay, leaving fruits from which much may be gathered and seed sown afresh, but not the line of Raphael or Rubens be perpetuated. Each one is true and interesting for opposite reasons: Art, because it partakes of the mind, is coloured, influenced by it; Science, because it repudiates all individuality, stands free from opinion, taste, or prejudice, uses the human mind to elaborate it, but shakes off all contact with it and is free. Art was cast upon the world, after its extinction in Greece, in the most mechanical form--providentially so, for thus only could a people begin again. Mosaics, frescoes, Byzantine paintings, had reduced hand and mind to the mere mechanism of the art. The early part of engraving began thus: goldsmiths drew men and women, as they drew any other pattern, for a decoration; the process seems to show this: hard decided outlines, dark grounds done--it mattered not much how--and a little artificial shading. Aug. 10.--I was sitting alone writing, when Andersen, the Danish poet, was ushered in: a long, thin, fleshless, boneless man, wriggling and bending like a lizard with a lantern-jawed, cadaverous visage. Simple and childlike, and simpletonish in his manner. We had a great deal of talk, and after so recently reading his...
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Excerpt from Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, Vol. 1 of 2 The principle I have endeavoured to adhere to, with such wealth of material at my command, has been to keep myself in the background - to say as little, and to allow her to say as much, as possible. Perhaps Southey's dictum - that a man's character could more surely be judged by the letters which his friends addressed to him, than by those he himself penned - was intended to apply to male writers only. In any case, I am confident that a true idea of Lady Eastlake's character and abilities can be formed by a perusal of what she has herself written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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