Author: R. A. Scott-James Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780428371944 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
Excerpt from Personality in Literature Mr. Balfour does, indeed, make a proper distino tion between art as technical dexterity and art as related to the sublime, the beautiful, the pathetic, the humorous, the melodious, and admits that 'it is possible to apply an objective test to technical skill - to decide that this line scans, that this 'rhyme is flawless, that these bars in music are in such-and-such a key. But he will allow no objective grounds of excellence to art in the more important sense. If you say that this poem is beautiful or sublime, you are asserting what is only true for you, a mere personal preference which others need not be expected to share. Not only do men of trained sensibility differ from the uncultured, but they differ equally from one another. He cites the evidence of Greek music to show how widely the cultured of one nation and epoch may differ from the cultured of other nations and epochs. Having laid it down as an axiom that our aesthetic judgments are for the most part immediate, and, so to speak, intuitive, and observing that the fastidious differ among themselves, and that their delight in fine objects is no more intense than the delight of the vulgar in coarser themes, he proceeds to the con elusion that there can be no valid right or wrong in taste, no absolute standard of beauty. He even maintains that art is not based upon any special faculty for perceiving the true. I can find no justification in experience for associating great art with penetrating insight. 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.
Author: Sidney Lanier Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781528045377 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
Excerpt from The English Novel: A Study in the Development of Personality Whereupon the steadfast parson proceeds to assure the company that whatever he may have in his male [wallet] there is none of your light-minded and fictitious verse in it; nothing but grave and reverend prose. 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.
Author: Frank Channing Haddock Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781396135132 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 428
Book Description
Excerpt from Creative Personality The author originally intended that the pages of this book should be a part of the work entitled, Prac tical Psychology. It was seen, however, that this would make a volume altogether too long, and the plan of a two-volume book was for a time entertained. Finally it was decided to give each work a separate title, since they so greatly differ in style and subject matter, and since purchasers would then be enabled to order them singly. 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.
Author: Bliss Carman Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780332110820 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
Excerpt from The Making of Personality Eere was never a time, perhaps, bigger with spiritual promise than the present, nor more strenuously eager to liberate the human spirit for its next step forward in the arduous and inspiring journey toward perfection and happiness. The cause enlists the best work of the best workers against just such odds as have always confronted radical effort, but with less stubborn resistance than in duller days. 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.
Author: F. B. Sanborn Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780666993403 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 94
Book Description
Excerpt from The Personality of Thoreau True, Lowell, who printed this anonymously in 1848, left the two Concord names blank; but those who read what the younger friends of Emerson had then published - Channing two volumes of verse and some prose in the Dial, and Thoreau his Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers in part, in the Dial, with other papers, a few original verses, and some translations from the Greek - could not doubt for whom these shafts of satire were meant. The points of resemblance between the written style of Charming or of Thoreau and that of Emer son, whether in verse or prose, were very few; but a like-mindedness existed among the three, and careless or prejudiced observers, like young Russell Lowell, fancied resemblances and bor rowings where none could afterwards be seen. Even so did others fancy a resemblance between Emerson and Carlyle, which Lowell, in the same. 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.
Author: Kuno Francke Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780332178684 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
Excerpt from Personality in German Literature Before Luther Individualistic character of the German folksong of the end of the Middle Ages. Its universality. Its naturalness. Its humanity. The love song. The ballad. The Two Royal Children. Tannhauser. The Stepmother. The Faithful Sister. Didactic and satir ical narrative. The rogue Amis. Meier Helmbrecht. The tide of democratic feeling. 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.
Author: Francis Seymour Stevenson Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780282560218 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
Excerpt from Historic Personality To all who doubt the value and im portance of laying stress on the person ality in history, no more effective method of dispelling their scepticism can be sug gested than that, with openness of mind and fulnels of recollection, they should spend a few hours within the precincts of the Church of Santa Croce at Florence. 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.
Author: John Herman Randall Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780331782929 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 536
Book Description
Excerpt from The Culture of Personality The decay of the outworn forms Of religious belief does not signify spiri tual decay, as so many timorous folk would have us believe. On the con trary, it is a sign of spiritual renais sance, of increased vigor Of religious vitality, too potent to be longer con fined in the Old formulae and so, forced to overflow into the larger moulds Of science and philosophy, of literature and art, thus tending to spiritualize the general consciousness of men as, through purely ecclesiastical channels, it has never been able to do. 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.
Author: Warren Hilton Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780428863975 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 114
Book Description
Excerpt from Processes and Personality 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.
Author: Abraham Myerson Publisher: ISBN: 9781330691960 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 416
Book Description
Excerpt from The Foundations of Personality Man's interest in character is founded on an intensely practical need. In whatsoever relationship we deal with our fellows, we base our intercourse largely on our understanding of their characters. The trader asks concerning his customer, "Is he honest?" and the teacher asks about the pupil, "Is he earnest?" The friend bases his friendship on his good opinion of his friend; the foe seeks to know the weak points in the hated one's make-up; and the maiden yearning for her lover whispers to herself, "Is he true?" Upon our success in reading the character of others, upon our understanding of ourselves hangs a good deal of our life's success or failure. Because the feelings are in part mirrored on the face and body, the experience of mankind has become crystallized in beliefs, opinions and systems of character reading which are based on physiognomy, shape of head, lines of hand, gait and even the method of dress and the handwriting. Some of these all men believe in, at least in part. For example, every one judges character to a certain extent by facial expression, manner, carriage and dress. 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.
Author: R. A. Scott-James
Author: Sidney Lanier
Author: Frank Channing Haddock
Author: Bliss Carman
Author: F. B. Sanborn
Author: Kuno Francke
Author: Francis Seymour Stevenson
Author: John Herman Randall
Author: Warren Hilton
Author: Abraham Myerson