 Enough has been given to morality; now comes the turn of Taste and the Fine Arts. A sad thing it was, no doubt, very sad; but we can't mend it. Therefore let us make the best of a bad matter; and, as it is impossible to hammer anything out of it for moral...  Blackwood's Magazine - Seite 1931827Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 404 Seiten
...as it is impossible to hammer anything out of it for moral purposes, let us treat it sesthetically, and see if it will turn to account in that way. Such...which, morally considered, was shocking, and without a kg to stand upon, when tried by principles of Taste, turns out to be a very meritorious performance.... | |
 | 1855 - 518 Seiten
...mend it. Therefore let us make the best of a bad matter ; and, as it is impossible to hammer anything out of it for moral purposes, let us treat it aesthetically,...Taste, turns out to be a very meritorious performance. . . . Virtue has had her day ; and henceforward, Virtu, so nearly the same thing as to differ only... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 Seiten
...mend it. Therefore let us make the best of a bad matter ; and, as it is impossible to hammer anything out of it for moral purposes, let us treat it aesthetically,...Taste, turns out to be a very meritorious performance. . . . Virtue has had her day ; and henceforward, Virtu, so nearly the same thing as to differ only... | |
 | 1900 - 426 Seiten
...mend it. Therefore let us make the best of a bad matter ; and as it is impossible to hammer anything out of it for moral purposes let us treat it aesthetically,...Taste turns out to be a very meritorious performance." This, it will be seen, is a charming anticipation, both in tone and reasoning, of the Fabian Manifesto,... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1904 - 140 Seiten
...light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed indispensable to attempts of this nature. . . . We dry up our tears, and have the satisfaction, perhaps,...shocking, and without a leg to stand upon, when tried by the principles of Taste turns out to be a very meritorious performance." Thus, in his serio-comic lecturing... | |
 | Peter A. French - 242 Seiten
...mend it. Therefore let us make the best of a bad matter; and, as it is impossible to hammer anything out of it for moral purposes, let us treat it aesthetically,...satisfaction, perhaps, to discover that a transaction, which was shocking, when tried by principles of Taste, turns out to be a very meritorious performance. Thus... | |
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