... his common humanity and his subjection to time and space (that is, to the Syrian life of his period) involved his belief in many things, true and fal... ... in many things, true and false, that in no way distinguish him from other Syrians of that time. But such common beliefs do not constitute specific Ch... ...han Solomon or Jonah. When reproached, as Bunyan was, for resorting to the art of fiction when teaching in parables, he justifies himself on the groun... ...fiction when teaching in parables, he justifies himself on the ground that art is the only way in which the people can be taught. He is, in short, wha... ... come to a later storyteller, and one with a stronger natural gift for his art. Before you have read twenty lines of Luke’s gospel you are aware that ... ...earliest codices are Greek manuscripts of the fourth century A.D., and the Syrian ones are translations from the Greek, the paleographic expert has no... ...e day. An at- tempt to return to individual properties as the basis of our production would smash civilization more completely than ten revolutions. Y... ...himself. There is no longer any practical question open as to Communism in production: the struggle today is over the distribution of the product: tha... ... the Lion such simple and direct village examples of apparent indi- vidual production turn out on a moment’s examination to be the products of an elab...

......................................................................... 166 ART .......................................................................... ...ut we find it not in our man. But we apply ourselves to the history of its production. We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder. We re... ...ture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art. And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books... ...lpture or of pictures addresses. Civil and natural history, the history of art and of lit- erature, must be explained from individual history, or must... ...ugh for chaplets and festoons we cut the stem short. And I must hazard the production of the bald fact amidst these pleasing reveries, though it shoul... ...and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon, nor the Syrian sunshine. He lies very well where he is. The Jerseys were handsome g... ...teries of eternal art, they are hypocritical rubbish. The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all...

...rvellous ro- mance, no one would ever have imagined the possibility of its production. It stands outside other things—a mixture of mad mirth and gravi... ...al one of the sides, one of the veins, so to speak, of our literature. The art that addresses itself to the eye had likewise its share of this coarsen... ... continue to be so. The Abbe de Massy’s edition of 1752, also an Amsterdam production, has made use of Le Duchat’s but does not take its place. Finall... ...es. But Rabelais was another thing, a man 33 Rabelais Made up of all that art and nature can Form from a fiery genius,—he was one Whose soul so unive... ...r each rich conceit a Pumpion-pearl is told: III. And such a one is this, art’s masterpiece, A thing ne’er equall’d by old Greece: A thing ne’er ma... ...velties to win the love of the people. But what happened thereupon? At the production of the camel they were all affrighted, and offended at the sight... ..., devoured by vermin and lice; as before him died L. Sylla, Pherecydes the Syrian, the preceptor of Pythagoras, and Greek poet Alcmaeon, and others—an...

... color! What resources of imagination, construction, analysis and absolute art! One might almost sympathize with Sarah Helen Whitman, who, confess- in... ...ne of the most beau- tiful features of his life. Many of his famous poetic productions were inspired by her beauty and charm. Consumption had marked h... ... an asso- ciation with the motion of the play-ground tilt. Mr. Poe’s early productions show that he could see through the verse to the spirit beneath,... ...uch is want- ing. We differ from Mr. Poe in his opinions of the objects of art. He esteems that object to be the creation of Beauty, and perhaps it is... ...or. In this his success is so great and striking as to deserve the name of art, not artifice. We cannot call his materials the noblest or purest, but ... ...ributable to Cambyses, the son of Cyrus. And, indeed, the character of the Syrian monarch does by no means stand in need of any adventitious embellish... ...heavens; his Sunship is not there — at least not the Sunship adored by the Syrians. That deity will be found in the interior of yonder building. He is... ...pardon— will be given—by the learned of future ages, to the Ashimah of the Syrians. Put on your spectacles, and tell me what it is. What is it? “Bless...

... model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art. However, as art is all of a ship but the wood, and yet the wood alone ... ...ring with so much smothered sunlight, if you stood near enough, no work of art but naturalized at length. I often discovered him unex pectedly amid t... ...e river in Lowell. Their nests, which are very conspicuous, look more like art than anything in the river. If we had leisure this afternoon, we might ... ...here it lies in the east of literature, as it were the earliest and latest production of the mind. The ruins of Egypt oppress and stifle us with their... ...very flower of all reading, which we had postponed to such a season “Of Syrian peace, immortal leisure.” But, alas, our chest, like the cabin of a ... ...lic read. There is always a poem not printed on paper, coincident with the production of this, stereotyped in the poet’s life. It is what he has beco...

...easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; art work: family portrait of Count Tolstoy by unknown photographer, c. 1900... ...wo stories which of all that he has written Tolstoy likes best. In What is Art? he claims no place among examples of good art for any of his own produ... ...t is Art? he claims no place among examples of good art for any of his own productions ‘except for the story God sees the Truth, but Waits, which seek... ...es the Truth, but Waits, which seeks a place in the first class (religious art), and A Prisoner in the Caucasus, which belongs to the second (universa... ...: “Two Old Men” 102 of other nationalities: Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Syrians. Efím entered the Holy Gates with the crowd. A monk led them past t...

...ts to educate the peasant children. This section of the book contains the two stories which of all that he has written Tolstoy likes best. In What is Art? he claims no place among examples of good art for any of his own productions ?except for the story God sees the Truth, but Waits, which seeks a place in the first class (religious art), and A Prisoner in the Caucasus, wh...

..................................................................... 38 THOU ART THE MAN .................................................................. ...amenable to those undeviat- ing principles which regulate all varieties of art; and very nearly the same laws by which we decide on the higher merits ... ...that spotty look to a room, which is the blemish of so many a fine work of Art overtouched. The frames are broad but not deep, and richly carved, with... ...just to the poet’s memory to publish it. The work is a hasty and unrevised production of its author’s earlier days of literary la- bor; and, beyond th... ...testimonies to the contrary, could never have been very general. Andeus, a Syrian of Mesopotamia, was condemned for the opinion, as heretical. He live...

...BET THE DEVIL YOUR HEAD ..................................................................................................................... 38 THOU ART THE MAN................................................................................................................................................ 47 WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING ..................

...han a mass of prose. Let us hear Hazlitt: “Pope saw nature only dressed by art; he judged of beauty by fashion; he sought for truth in the opinions of... ...ring power of imagi- nation; and, 4th, Some objects in nature, and some in art, need less of this transforming magic than others, and are thus intrins... ...ll of genius; where there is less— as in artificial objects, or the poorer productions of nature— the mind of the poet must exert itself tenfold, and ... ...ind of cultivation. He weakened it as a faculty, but strengthened it as an art; he lessened its inward force, but increased the elegance and fa- cilit... ...gh his house be sold; To headless Phoebe his fair bride postpone, Honour a Syrian prince above his own; Lord of an Otho, if I vouch it true; Bless’d i... ...ll’d, and said, Rattling an ancient sistrum at his head; ‘Speak’st thou of Syrian prince? 423 T raitor base! Mine, goddess! mine is all the hornèd ra... ...tus tells the same thing of it in his time.—P . W . 423 ‘Speak’st thou of Syrian princes:’ the strange story follow- ing, which may be taken for a fi...

...ies on or near this continent, because the cheapness and excellence of our productions, added to the circumstance of vicinity, and the enterprise and ... ...ts commerce with foreigners to regulate by distinct treaties; and as their productions and commodities are different and proper for different markets,... ...wn. To multiply examples of the agency of personal consider- ations in the production of great national events, either for- eign or domestic, accordin... ...on which used to mark the progress of war prior to their introduction. The art of fortification has contributed to the same ends. The nations of Europ... ...h which the beneficence of nature has inter- sected our country, and which art finds it so little difficult to connect and complete. A fourth and stil... ...and who, as an enemy to Macedon, had interest enough with the Egyptian and Syrian princes to effect a breach of their engagements with the league. The... ...ost to fear from us, and most to hope from them. The improve- ments in the art of navigation have, as to the facility of com- munication, rendered dis...

...t the end to be attained justified to his mind the means he adopted in the production of his Suras–that he worked himself up into a belief that he had... ...ike manner prosper the truth which thou proclaimest. He has taught man the art of writing (re- cently introduced at Mecca) and in this thou wilt find ... ... trouble cometh ease. Verily along with trouble cometh ease. But when thou art set at liberty, then prosecute thy toil. And seek thy Lord with fervour... ... path, 2 The path of those to whom Thou hast been gracious;–with whom thou art not angry, and who go not astray. 3 1 This Sura, which Nöldeke places ... ...imself and his religion from the ridicule and satire of other poets, whose productions were recited at the great annual fair held at Okatz, the Olympu... ...end was adopted by some of the Eastern Christians; and commemorated in the Syrian Cal- endar on Jan. 29. (Hyde de Rel. V. Pers. 74). Comp. the Abyssin... ...ere, the opinions, not only of the Jews, but of a much wider circle of the Syrian natives.” 4 Sura [cxiii.] ix. 115. 5 That is, by their conversion ...