 | England - 1880 - 930 pages
...object of tertu, in the most limited sense of the term. Those solemn images of the temple of Theseus are a perfect embodiment of the human ideal, of the reasonable...things of their kind, as an urn or a cup is well made. A perfect, many-sided development of tectonic crafts, a state such as the art of some nations has ended... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 1170 pages
...object of rertu, in the most limited sense of the term. Those solemn images of the temple of Theseus are a perfect embodiment of the human ideal, of the reasonable...and of a spiritual world ; they are also the best ¡amie things of their kind, as an urn or a cup is well made. A perfect, many-sided development of... | |
 | Walter Pater - Art, Greek - 1895 - 344 pages
...object of vertu, in the most limited sense of the term. Those solemn images of the temple of Theseus are a perfect embodiment of the human ideal, of the reasonable...things of their kind, as an urn or a cup is well made. A perfect, many-sided development of tectonic crafts, a state such as the art of some nations has ended... | |
 | Walter Pater - Aesthetics - 1901 - 316 pages
...object of vertu, in the most limited sense of the term. Those solemn images of the temple of Theseus are a perfect embodiment of the human ideal, of the reasonable...things of their kind, as an urn or a cup is well made. A perfect, many-sided development of tectonic crafts, a state such as the art of some nations has ended... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1913 - 246 pages
...efforts of Greek art' At the end, as at the beginning, he insists that the great statue, besides being ' a perfect embodiment of the human ideal, of the reasonable soul and of a spiritual world,' is a ' supremely well-executed object of vertu,' like an urn or a cup, meant for the delight of the... | |
 | 1880 - 894 pages
...object of vertu, in the most limited sense of the term. Those solemn images of the temple of Theseus are a perfect embodiment of the human ideal, of the reasonable...things of their kind, as an urn or a cup is well made. A perfect, many-sided development of tectonic crafts, a state such as the art of some nations has ended... | |
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Melos, for instance, is but a supremely wellexecuted object of vertu, in the most limited sense of the term. Those solemn images of the temple of Theseus are a perfect embodiment of the human ideal, of the reasonable soul and of a spiritual world ; they... 