Yes, decidedly, he was no classicist in music; he was a thoroughgoing transcendentalist.
In music,' she asked, leaning forward and fixing him with her large dark eyes, 'are you a classicist or a transcendentalist?
Rent, the share of the land-owner, offered to the classicist a rather peculiar case.
He was a Classicist through and through--in the balance of composition, the rhythmical flow of lines, and the confession of faith that the highest aim of art is the representation of men and women of immaculate build.
Influenced by Alma Tadema in form, and by the French in colour, he drew nearer to the academic manner, until he became, at length, a Classicist without any salient peculiarity.
And when, after the close of the century, some amongst them overcame this dread, Poussin the Classicist was of course set up as the only model.
Brascassat was the Winterhalter of animal painting, neither Classicist nor Romanticist nor Realist, but the embodiment of mediocrity; a man honestly and sincerely regarding all nature with the eyes of a Philistine.
He grew up in the studio of the Classicist Lethiere, and looked on whilst the latter painted both his large Louvre pictures, "The Death of Brutus" and "The Death of Virginia.
When he began his career in the Munich Academy in 1819 Peter Langer, a Classicist of the order of Mengs, was still director there.
But though he was thus essentially a classicist, a mere classicist he was not.
A man so equipped was essentially a man of letters: a great deal more than a classicist, but a classicist first and foremost.
It can scarcely be doubted that he had an innate love of perfect form, an innate "sentiment against hideousness and rawness," and so he was a classicist by temperament.
He was a classicist who caught the new vision and sought to compromise.
But in the Prologue and the Epilogue of the book there is the later Aldrich, the classicist and critic, who warns us that the work is not to be taken seriously: that it is a mere burlesque, an extravaganza.
He was a classicist who wrote with perfect coolness, just as others had written before him.
Unlike Wordsworth, Thomson had not sufficient genius to invest Nature with an intelligent, loving, companionable soul; but his pictures of her were sufficiently novel and attractive to cause such a classicist and lover of the town as Dr.
An eighteenth-century classicist actually endeavored to improve Hamlet's soliloquy by putting it in riming couplets.
The classicist keeps to one line of thought and develops it by himself logically and completely.
In his study of men of science Ostwald has introduced the distinction of classicist and romanticist.
The classicist has to put up with deferred payment, and his services to science often receive no adequate recognition until after he is dead and sometimes not then.
At all events the professed conservative and classicist of tradition seeks too cheap a victory over the rebel.
The chief poets of this classicist group were Sa de Miranda and Ferreira.
He seems to have left the university, which he ever dearly loved, before the arrival of Diogo de Tieve, and the foundation of what may be called the national-classicist school of poetry by Ferreira, and went to Lisbon to obtain employment.
And as a first step toward the proper standpoint, we must cast out our traditional belief that Shakspere always accepted the classicist formula of five acts, proclaimed by Horace, and employed by Seneca.
The opposition established by the neo-classicist in passages of this kind is too mechanical.
The merely dogmatic and traditional classicist gave a somewhat un-Greek meaning to the doctrines of nature and imitation.
It may not only mean the imaginative insight[109] of a Plato and the abstract reasoning of a Descartes but is often employed by the classicist himself as a synonym of good sense.
The general truth at which the classicist aims the Rousseauist dismisses as identical with the gray and the academic, and bends all his efforts to the rendering of the vivid and unique detail.
We are brought back here to the final gap that opens between classicist and romanticist.
I have already mentioned the neo-classicist who complained that the stars in heaven were not arranged in sufficiently symmetrical patterns.
He is ready to employ not only the homely and familiar word that the pseudo-classicist had eschewed as “low,” but words so local and technical as to be unintelligible to ordinary readers.
To say that the classicist (and I am speaking of the classicist at his best) gets at his reality with the aid of the imagination is but another way of saying that he perceives his reality only through a veil of illusion.
Yet even to the end the neo-classicist was too prone to reject as unnatural or even monstrous everything that did not fit into one of the traditional pigeon-holes.
The chief fear of the classicist is to be thought monstrous.
They themselves feel this so strongly that a certain group in France has of late years inclined to use interchangeably the words classicist and nationalist.
In the two operations which the human mind performs, the classicist is more successful in the second than in the first.
In the second of these operations the classicistis superior.
