Word: fines
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gusts of feeling. Mingle only with the rich and the well-bred; for the rich will not annoy you with requests for favors, and the well-bred neither feel nor inspire emotion of any sort, and in so far are they philosophical. Avoid music, paintings of landscapes, and fine scenes in nature, for they have all suggestions of infinity; they breed longings, dissatisfactions, and often an idle love of beauty. A wise German once said of music, "Away! away! thou speakest to me of things which in all my endless life I have not found, and shall not find." This...
...expense of erecting a window which shall be in harmony with the Hall, and which shall display real artistic merit in the design and its treatment, is from $1,200 to $1,500. This may seem to be a high price, but it must be borne in mind that fine windows are expensive. As an item let me here mention that the figure parts of a first-class window cost from $15 to $20 per square foot, and the decorative parts from $8 to $12; and it is much better to spend more and obtain one which has some merit...
...possess, let me declare at once that the conception of what I am about to present was not wholly original with me. Great men suggested the idea, and great moralists have done much to encourage it. De Quincy has written an essay on "Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts." "The Prayse of Ignorance" was one of Tom Hood's "Whims...
...friends of the gentleman who made the fine spurt up the Chapel aisle last Wednesday morning feel encouraged to hope he will accomplish his six and a half miles an hour next spring...
THERE is some talk of giving honors in Fine Arts. We do not see why there should not be this incentive and reward in Fine Arts as well as in other departments. The number of courses is limited, to be sure, and honors, would hardly represent as much work in this study, but with the growth of interest on the part of the students other courses will in time undoubtedly be added. It would not be necessary or appropriate to require fifteen hours, even if so many could be taken, for few indeed would care to devote themselves so exclusively...