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Show Eagap on is the best part of each which he does no Compengation know; that which flowed out of his con stitution and not from his too-active inventio ; that which in the study of a singl artist you might not easily find, but in th study of many you would abstract as th spirit of them all. Phidias it is not, but th work of man in that early Hellenic worl that I would know. The name and circumstance of Phidias, however convenient fo history, embarasses when we come to th highest criticism. We are to see that whic i man was tendin and was hindered in doing, by th Phidias, of Dante fi whereb { q Still more striking is the expression of thi fact in the proverbs of all nations, whic are always the literature of Reason, or th statements of an absolute truth withou qualification. Proverbs, like the sacred book of each nation, are the sanctuary of th Intuitions. That which the droning world ‘ ma to do in a given period or, if you will, modifie interfering volitions o of Shakespeare, the orga at the momen wrought Digital mage© 2005 Marriott of Utah, Al rights reserved |