The essentials of aesthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1909)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 273
mal vitality within, is lessened. We feel thatlife has in some way been literally blasted. See the formsat the left of Fig. 48, page 245. As a rule, it is the greatconvulsions of nature, whether produced by fire, frost,wind, or earthquake, that leave behind them, if their pro-gress can be traced at… … o N 1- <n 246 THE ESSENTIALS OF ESTHETICS. the complex. Because complex, they are perplexing;and provided they be nevertheless disposed in such ways asto render the fact of some design indisputable, they areexciting, as far as lines can be, to the imagination, con-stantly stimulating it, as they…
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