Lectures on art delivered in support of the Society for the protection of ancient buildings, by R.S. Poole [and others. Ed. by J.H.M.].

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Σελίδα 182 - I know something either as a workman or a very deeply interested onlooker; wherefore I shall ask your leave to speak quite plainly and without fear or favour. You understand that our ground is, that not only is it possible to make the matters needful to our daily life works of art, but that there is something wrong in the civilisation that does not do this: if our houses, our clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched make-shifts, or what is worse,...
Σελίδα 128 - ... party — sometimes distasteful to him in the highest degree, sometimes of a kind for which he had little native aptitude — there had been an element of what he himself felt to be unnatural. His energy had become forced and feverish. In his own beautiful words, it was the " power of the strong man yearning to accomplish something before his death, not the simple hope of the child who has long years of life and growth before him.
Σελίδα 180 - For these things they do unwitting indeed, but are none the less oppressors — oppressors of the arts, and therefore of the people, who have a right to the solace which the arts alone can give to the life of simple men. Well, these men are, singly or in combination, the rich and powerful of the world; they rule civilisation at present, and if it were not through ignorance that they err, those who see the fault and lament it would indeed have no choice but to reject all civilisation with the ascetic;...
Σελίδα 154 - ... and beautiful ; and in short there is a sign in them of the coming of the wave of that great change which was to turn late Roman art, the last of the old, into Byzantine art, the first of the new.
Σελίδα 206 - How well I remember as a boy my first acquaintance with a room hung with faded greenery at Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, by Chingford Hatch, in Epping Forest, and the impression of romance that it made upon me! A feeling that always comes back on me when I read, as I often do, Sir Walter Scott's Antiquary...
Σελίδα 131 - Eome may well be called the building age of the world. But when those years were over, in Italy at least, the change was fully come ; and, as a symbol of that change, there stood on the site of the great mass of history and art, which was once called the Basilica of St. Peter, that new Church of St. Peter which still curses the mightiest city of the world — the very type, it seems to me, of pride and tyranny, of all that crushes out the love of art in simple people, and makes art a toy of little...
Σελίδα 217 - ... some beautiful piece of nature must have pressed itself on our notice so forcibly that we are quite full of it, and can, by submitting ourselves to the rules of art, express our pleasure to others, and give them some of the keen delight that we ourselves have felt.
Σελίδα 166 - ... lacked before ; and the second, which was apt to be feeble and languid, has gained a knitting-up of its lines into strength, and an interest in every curve, which make it like the choice parts of the very growths of nature. Other gain it has of richness and mystery, the most necessary of all the qualities of pattern-work, that without which, indeed, it must be kept in the strictly subordinate place which the scientific good taste of Greece allotted to it.
Σελίδα 210 - America ; this gave the dyers one new material in itself good, and one that was doubtful or bad. The good one was the new insect dye, cochineal, which at first was used only for dyeing crimson. . . . The bad new material was logwood, so fugitive a dye as to be quite worthless as a color by itself (as it was first used) and to my mind of very little use otherwise.
Σελίδα 181 - To do with as few things as we can, and as far as we can to see to it that these things are the work of freemen and not of slaves; these two seem to me to be the main duties to be fulfilled by those who wish to live a life at once free and refined, serviceable to others, and pleasant to themselves.

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