This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ... POETRY AND THE FINE ARTS: THEIR AFFINITIES AND TOWERS. A LECTURE. Read to the Members of the Durham Athenaeum; the Alnwick Mechanics' Institute; the Sunderland Literary Institution; the Tynemouth Literary Society; and the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastleupon-Tyne. The kindred arts of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ... POETRY AND THE FINE ARTS: THEIR AFFINITIES AND TOWERS. A LECTURE. Read to the Members of the Durham Athenaeum; the Alnwick Mechanics' Institute; the Sunderland Literary Institution; the Tynemouth Literary Society; and the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastleupon-Tyne. The kindred arts of Poetry and Music, Painting and Sculpture, are thought to have their foundation in that affinity for the beautiful which is innate in the human mind, and to derive their power from a concord between the perceptions of harmony that belong to the human soul, and the divine harmonies of creation; from subtle relations between ideal beauty and those instincts of the mind--ever true to the image of its Maker--which welcome with delight the objects that bear His signet mark. It was a favourite idea in those classic lands which were the birth-place of Art, that the soul had enjoyed a blissful pre-existence--a former life of which memories occasionally came vividly before the spirit; and seeing how it was ever stirred by the representation of ideal beauty, " as by a breath that reached it from the borders of Paradise,"--how responsive the mind was ever found to the Muses' voice, it was believed that the arts were divinely given to companion the soul from its lost heaven, and were but arts of memory. Apollo and the Muses were accounted of divine origin, and the fountains of poetry were traced to a celestial source--and well might'they be so derived, for poetry has proved a divine gift to human genius, and the poetic muse has been a priestess of religion, whether her inspirations are traced in Palestine, beneath B the patriarchal cedars; in Greece, upon the heights of Mount Olympus; or among the pine-clad hills of Italy and the august monuments of Roman...
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