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If there is on earth an instance where a little leaven may leaven the whole lump, it is that of the religious shipmaster.
Richard Henry Dana • Two Years Before the Mast
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.4
George Orwell • All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
Norton quoted too from Emerson and his essay “On Beauty,” but more than Emerson and other Americans, Norton had been influenced by two Englishmen, the philosopher John Stuart Mill and the art critic John Ruskin. Mill’s claim that the study of art was on par with an intellectual and moral education had been part of Norton’s argument to Harvard when
... See moreNatalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Against this blood-soaked background, Thaddeus Dod attempted to civilize the community at Ten Mile.
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
The French writer Stendhal, in his 1817 travelogue, Rome, Naples, and Florence, described
Michael Finkel • The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Fairfield Porter - Art in Its Own Terms: Selected Criticism, 1935–1975
The visiter, shooting suddenly into this bay from out the gloom of the ravine, is delighted but astounded by the full orb of the declining sun, which he had supposed to be already far below the horizon, but which now confronts him, and