 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1833 - 292 pages
...How do we distinguish the oak from the beech ; the horse from the ox, but by the bounding outline 1 How do we distinguish one face or countenance from...beast can exist." These abominations — concealed outlines anct tricks of colour — now bring on one of those visionary fits to which Blake was so liable,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1831 - 292 pages
...do we distinguish the oak -from the beech; the horse from the ox, but by the bounding outline ? Haw do we distinguish one face or countenance from another,...beast can exist." These abominations — concealed outlines and tricks of colour — now bring on one of those visionary fits to which Blake was so liable,... | |
 | Literature - 1903 - 848 pages
...out this line (the bounding line, Blake calls it, the hard and wiry line of rectitude and certainty) and you leave out life itself; all is chaos again,...be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist. Strauss, it seems to me, lacks this rectitude and certainty of the bounding line, and that is why his... | |
 | Child rearing - 1846 - 292 pages
...face or countenance from another, but by the bounding line and its infinite inflexions and movements 1 Leave out this line and you leave out life itself:...beast can exist." These abominations — concealed outlines and t tricks of colour — now bring on one of those visionary fits to which Blake was so... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1859 - 288 pages
...How do we distinguish the oak from the beech ; the horse from the ox, but by the bounding outline t How do we distinguish one face or countenance from...beast can exist." These abominations — concealed outlines and tricks of colour — now bring on one of those visionary fits to which Blake was so liable,... | |
 | Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - Artists - 1863 - 366 pages
...the hard and wiry line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions] Leave out this lino and you leave out life itself; all is chaos again, and the lino of the Almighty must be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist. Talk no more then of... | |
 | Alexander Gilchrist - Artists - 1880 - 508 pages
...from knavery, but the hard and wiry line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions? Leave out this line and you leave out life itself;...be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist. Talk no more then of Correggio or Rembrandt, or any other of those plagiaries of Venice or Flanders.... | |
 | William Blake - English poetry - 1893 - 324 pages
...from knavery but the hard and wiry line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions ? Leave out this line, and you leave out life itself;...must be drawn out upon it before man or beast can fROSS FRAGMENTS. . a29 TH« Tins or KNOWUDGE AND or LIFE. THE combats of good an J evil is cuing of... | |
 | Arthur Symons - Aesthetics - 1906 - 456 pages
...out this line (the bounding line, Blake calls it, the hard and wiry line of rectitude and certainty) and you leave out life itself; all is chaos again,...drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist.' Strauss, it seems to me, lacks this rectitude and certainty of the bounding line, and that is why his... | |
 | Edwin John Ellis - Artists - 1907 - 500 pages
...from knavery but the hard and wiry line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions ? Leave out this line, and you leave out life itself....the line of the Almighty must be drawn out upon it again before man or beast can exist. Talk no more then of Correggio or Rembrandt, or any of those plagiaries... | |
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What is it that builds a house and plants a garden, but the definite and determinate ? What is it that distinguishes honesty from knavery, but the hard and wirey line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions ? Leave out this line, and... 
