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The interpretative critic represented in the practice of Pater stands between a work of art and the appreciator as mediator and revealer. Each kind of criticism performs a certain office, and is of use within its own chosen sphere. To the layman, for his purposes of appreciation, that order of criticism will be most helpful which responds most closely and amply to his peculiar needs.
The collation over, at a sign of approbation from M. de Mazarin, the king arose, and, at the invitation of his aunt, walked about among the ranks of the assembly. The ladies then observed there are certain things for which women are as good observers at Blois as at Paris the ladies then observed that Louis XIV. had a prompt and bold look, which premised a distinguished appreciator of beauty.
A smarter trader, a keener appreciator of the tendencies to a rise or fall in colonial produce sugars more especially than John Linden, of Mincing Lane, it would have been difficult to point out in the wide city of London.
It was still his assumption that as a sleeping body was beautiful with its breath rising and lowering the chest rhythmically like a raft on an ocean, so an artist, the appreciator of beauty in the mundane, would have an artist's aberrations from the insensate throngs, and as such, such appreciative aberrations should not be judged as anything that was particularly queer or at any rate queerer than anything else.
I love to contemplate a genuine, whole-souled appreciator like Morrison, without any qualms about the way society is put together. And I envy him! I envy him as blackly as your pines envied the sumac. He's got out of the wrong rôle into the right one. I wish to the Lord I could!"
The ultimate meaning of a work of art to the appreciator is what it wakens in him of emotion.
The interpretation of art, for which we look to criticism, deals with the picture, the statue, the book, specifically in its relation to the appreciator. What is the special nature of the experience which the work communicates to us in terms of feeling?
The collation over, at a sign of approbation from M. de Mazarin, the king arose, and, at the invitation of his aunt, walked about among the ranks of the assembly. The ladies then observed there are certain things for which women are as good observers at Blois as at Paris the ladies then observed that Louis XIV. had a prompt and bold look, which premised a distinguished appreciator of beauty.
From which it will be seen that there were limits to the aesthetic sympathy of even so liberal and divining an appreciator as MacDowell. The modern Frenchmen he knew scarcely at all. Some of d'Indy's earlier music he had heard and admired: but that he would have cared for such a score as Debussy's "La Mer" I very much doubt.
The practical moral of it seems to be that if a man is willing to sink himself into a woodchuck he can live as cheaply as that quadruped; but after all, for me, I prefer walking on two legs." It would be unjust to Whittier to quote this talk on paper as his final opinion upon Thoreau, for he afterwards read everything he wrote, and was a warm appreciator of his work.
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