Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XXIII (Finale)
Letter XXVII DO not fear for reality and truth. Even if the elevated idea of æsthetic appearance became general, it would not become...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XVIII
Letter XXII ACCORDINGLY, if the æsthetic disposition of the mind must be looked upon in one respect as nothing—that is, when we confine...
A Defence of Poetry - Part V
But I digress. The connection of scenic exhibitions with the improvement or corruption of the manners of men has been universally...
Beauty & Truth
Part Four: Time and Eternity X I DIED for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an...
Oration on the Dignity of Man - Part I
Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so...