Raphael did not consider it 'niggling,' as some of our broad-handling moderns would call it, to group humble daisies round the feet of his divine representation of the Mother of Christ.
Raphael did not consider it "niggling," as some of our broad-handling moderns would call it, to group humble daisies round the feet of his divine representation of the Mother of Christ.
Wherein beside that we find no way to conjoin the effect unto the cause assigned; herein the Moderns speak but timorously, and some of the Ancients quite contrarily.
FN#284] The moderns believe most in the dawn-dream.
Mr. Mo[o]re was a poet that never had justice done him while living; there are few of the moderns have a more correct taste, or a more pleasing manner of expressing their thoughts.
With this standpoint he contributed several works in defence of the moderns in the famous quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns.
Even the moderns have found, in some parts of South America, vast regions inhabited by a people of inferior civilisation, but which occupied and cultivated the soil.
The greatest difficulty in antiquity was that of altering the law; among the moderns it is of altering the manners; and, as far as we are concerned, the real obstacles begin where those of the ancients left off.
To the higher rooms approaching, still we find the new encroaching On the old; the Modernspoaching coolly on the Ancients' land.
I don't speak of landscape painters, because the writer of that pamphlet has already proved that the moderns in this line are very superior, because better imitators than the old.
It is in lyric poetry that the moderns have chiefly excelled the ancients, in variety, in elevation of sentiment, and in imagination.
But although I had always realised all these good qualities in a hansom cab, I had not experienced all the possibilities, or, as the moderns put it, all the aspects of that vehicle.
Besides, the ancients were not decorous; they did not, as we make our moderns do, write for ladies.
Even the most cock-sure of our moderns might hesitate to emulate Michelangelo in his calm destruction of three frescoes by Perugino to make room for his own "Last Judgment.
In such work he is a modern of the moderns and, in the broadest sense of the word, a thorough Impressionist.
We moderns are just beginning to form the chain of a very powerful, future sentiment, link by link,--we hardly know what we are doing.
Perhaps, is it the case that we moderns are merely not sufficiently sound to require Plato's idealism?
By somemoderns he is mistakenly called The Waggoner.
The moderns have artfully fixed this Mercury, and reduced it to the circumstances of time, place, and person.
As the Romans constructed a literature in imitation of the Greeks, the modernshave taken the Latin writers for their models.
For a long time the moderns refused to believe this; it was thought that the Greeks possessed too sober taste to add color to an edifice.
Our last remarks would be comparatively unimportant, were it not that the close observation which the moderns have given, to every thing connected with natural history, has shown us that there is a harmony throughout creation.
The idea of the Ancients was to obtain what they wanted by costly sacrifice; the idea of the Moderns is to obtain their desires by the expenditure of words only.
These are the main principles in this matter; which, like nearly all other right principles in art, we moderns delight in contradicting as directly and specially as may be.
Earlier writers on these themes were timid; the moderns are bored.
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