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But there is something singularly exasperating in German painting, whether old or new, that sets us to wondering whether such museums as the National Gallery, Berlin; the new Pinakothek, Munich, and other repositories of ugly colour and absurd mythologies do not cause a deterioration in public taste.
It has been said that he lacks imagination, as if creation or evocation of character is not the loftiest attribute of imagination, even though it deals not with the stuff of which mythologies are made. We admire the enthusiasm of Mr. Ricketts for Velasquez, and his analysis is second to none save R.A.M. Stevenson's. Yet we do protest the painter was not the bundle of negations Mr.
And then, after midnight, he would steal home, baffled and sick at heart, and wet his pillow with hot and bitter tears! So unbearable to him was the thought of such perils that he was impelled to seek his old friend the clergyman, who had lost him over the ancient Hebrew mythologies, and now won him back by his living moral force.
People, he thinks, in making riddles 'would avoid the ordinary appellatives, and the use of little-known names in most mythologies would thus find an intelligible explanation. Again, 'we can see how essential it was that in such mythological riddles the principal agents should not be called by their regular names. This last remark, indeed, is obvious.
For it prompts religion no longer to seek its treasure, the true nature of things, and its everlasting home in time and space, as the mythologies and eschatologies have sought them repeatedly.
Shallow men think of Ideality as another appetite, to be fed with pretty baubles, as the body is satisfied with meat and sleep; but the representative of that august impulse feels in it his immortality, and by all his lovely allegories, mythologies, fables, pictures, statues, manners, songs, and symphonies, he seeks to communicate his own feeling, that by specific gravity man must rise.
§ XXXVII. Instant degradation followed in every direction, a flood of folly and hypocrisy. Mythologies ill understood at first, then perverted into feeble sensualities, take the place of the representations of Christian subjects, which had become blasphemous under the treatment of men like the Caracci.
De Longperier has published a description of a Chaldean cylinder, on which was represented a priest presenting his offering to a hatchet lying on a throne, and a ring was picked up at Mykenae, on the stone of which was engraved a double-bladed celt. We find the same idea in many different mythologies.
Believing that every earnest author's mind should prove a mint, where all valuable ores are collected from the rich veins of a universe are cautiously coined, and thence munificently circulated she applied herself diligently to the task of gathering, from various sources the data required for her projected work: a vindication of the unity of mythologies.
"Then the earlier generations of mankind were immortal?" "Undoubtedly. We have traces of the fact in all the old mythologies." "But what became of them?" "Once the idea of death had entered the world," Mrs. Crapps said impressively, "it spread like the plague until it had infected all mankind.
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