Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...series of lectures on art will be given under the auspices of Columbia College in the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York on Saturday mornings throughout the winter...
Classical Philology 1. Greek and Roman Art. Professor Wright. Harvard...
...literary production, it has not much merit. There is little method and the art is rough. It paints vividly any grotesque character, but fails at the quiet or gentle. It has no cohereucr, and no consummation, - like many pictures arranged by mere chance...
Besides these acquired powers, Chaucer was born with the nature of a pure poet. His love for nature was intense and almost childish, and his eye caught the beautiful always, whether in nature or in man. He taught himself the art of self-criticism, of which earlier poets were ignorant. This gave his writings the double power both of nature and art. Though drama was not then recognized, yet we cannot fail to mark the dramatic instinct of which he was possessed. In all the essentials of genius, - in inheritance, in acquired qualities, and in fitting circumstances - Chaucer was complete...
Classical Philology 1. Greek and Roman Art. Professor Wright. Harvard...