 | Genevieve Stebbins - 1885 - 348 pages
...theory on the subject of a question declared old as the world ! It is because art, notwithstanding the antiquity of its origin, is still, from a didactical...point of view, unknown even to those who profess it. It is because no one has ever known how to disengage the principles which constitute it from its applications... | |
 | 1893 - 422 pages
...forward, faultless as flowers, A rt, notivithsta tiding the a ntiquzty of its origin^ is still, front a didactical point of -view, unknown even to those who profess it. — DELSARTE. Falling from far, from full-fed frosty fountains, Glittering, glistening, gossamer, gauzy,... | |
 | Elsie M. Wilbor - 1905 - 522 pages
...bore a crown ; there was that patience in her voice which makes authority royal. Art is, definitively, a mysterious agent, of which the sublime virtues work in us, by contemplative paths, the subjection of divine things.— DELSARTE. Adoniram went. Mrs. Perm lead the... | |
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