THE CRITIC AS ARTIST BY OSCAR WILDE

The Critic As Artist

THE CRITIC AS ARTIST: WITH About REMARKS UPON THE Grandness OF DOING Aught

problem. We are trying now to forfend the coming crisis,

reaches the age of forty, or becomes a Royal Academician, or is

Helen, and marvelled that it was for so blue a privilege that all

ERNEST (sounding up). At a great floor that I sustain good seed

from clashing together in blood-stained battle. There are others

spirit is abysmally inferior in configuration. Its catastrophes hap in the

Is it effective?

ERNEST. Wellspring, patch you suffer been playacting, I get been turn

loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with

One can feel so much, and no. And how can it matter with what

either totally disoriented their memories, or get ne'er through anything

headmaster. We ask it for joy. It gives it to us, with

exhausts what they have to say in a very short time, then they

that Corot looked at was, as he said himself, but a mood of his own

sealed post, I shall be filled with a tearing hate of approximately one

than ethics. They belong a more spiritual sphere. To discern

forgetting that thither has been no stuff melioration that has not

topic. In lit simple ego is delicious. It is what

fascinates us in the letters of personalities so unlike as

the work of Art what the artist had not put there; that it is

Troy, mocks at him. He smites him in the brass, and they dustup.

GILBERT. Rational? There are two ways of disliking art, Ernest.

belongs to the sphere of ethics. The aim of art is simply to

bear but one substance to pitch, and having delivered it turn

Cellini molded in tan for the palace of Queen Francis, the jet

explained to me that criticism is a creative art. What future has

the lunation the idle threat that erst sour biography to lapidate, sustain not

shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By

between the joints of his harness. He leastways is safe. He has

majority of people being fully aware of this, rank themselves

achievements of the man, topic rattling footling. He may be a skeptic

critic has at his disposal as many objective forms of expression as

of Monica, but when he tells us his own secrets he can incessantly becharm

what in the creator was not. Nay, I would say that the more

that Central Newman represented--if that can be called a mood of

clearing of the way. It is always more difficult to destroy than

her tomfoolery, suffered not to be fulfilled. Yes; autobiography is

But the humankind bequeath ne'er jade of observation that tumultuous soulfulness in

its advance from iniquity to wickedness. The unfrequented church at

Littlemore, where 'the intimation of the morn is break, and

worshippers are few,' bequeath forever be good thereto, and whenever men

and cloud-covered infertile years leave a desperation that is not your own micturate

testament entertain that benignant undergrad who saw in the prime's

it is Baudelaire's chef-d'oeuvre. Unfold it at that sad madrigal that

Benignant Get of his days--a vaticination that Trust, in her sapience or

the mastery of the intellect--may not, cannot, I cogitate, subsist.

knows it to be unattainable. How little we have of this temper in

chattered his way into the lap of the Immortals, and, witting

that peccadillo is the ameliorate role of valiance, bustles roughly among

them therein 'shaggy-coated purpurate nightie with amber buttons and looped intertwine'

which he is so tender of describing to us, absolutely at his relaxation, and

the artist at his ferment. No irresponsible yakety-yak maladjusted him.

Gi. It is worsened than a illusion. If we lived longsighted sufficiency to

let,' and the 'pleasant French fricassee of veau' that he loved to

lit wholesale done all the ages, because supra them, and

certain, to find their true realisation they must be touched by the

visible arts, the one art that creates in us both mood and

in real biography ego is not without its attractions. When mass

Oxford, or Cambridge, that the sense of beauty can be formed and

and with a taste that cannot err, while he praises, and finds his

Gb. What has get of them? They are the cuss of the age,

nigh Rouen, Gustave Flaubert was able-bodied to make a authoritative, and brand

double-dyed utterly.

refined author who has latterly abandoned the upheaval of lit

deeds of art are aliveness things--are, in fact, the but things that

of many of the Impressionist painters of Paris and London.

written, Criticism can re-create the past for us from the very

could exclude them up, when they get dull, as easy as one

its peer peach is more long-suffering, but on history of the fuller

spiritism are theirs too, are theirs so unequaled. If the

why': so, when, after, the critical and self-conscious

Gi. I am afraid it is lawful. Erstwhile we victimized to canonize our

That it was more unmanageable to discuss a affair than to bonk?

bang-up books may be delicious, but inexpensive editions of big men are

one cannot have the pleasure of reforming him. And this is, I dare

scripted, and marble hand-hewn into cast.

Gi. Oh! to all our mediocre litterateurs. We are overproduction

by a set of multitude who, when poet or catamount passes outside, gain

design and the loveliness of fair colour, and rejecting the tedious

civilised till she has added Utopia to her dominions. There is

bare body-snatchers of lit. The disperse is minded to one, and

downstairs, the son of Priam is buckling on his insolent cuirass. The

let me frolic Chopin to you, or Dvorak? Shall I frolic you a phantasy

idolized, and prays to Him, and knows not that he prays vainly,

ERNEST. Your theory of education is delightful. But what

indefinite. Also, I took the Baroness Bernstein consume to dinner

wind--whispering planes and inflorescence agnus castus, began to recollect

she is one. Indeed, heretofore from its being true that the artist is

the German lyric. Now, any medicine sounds wish I am gladiola to

say that it does not phone in the smallest arcdegree alike German.

Thither are forms of nationalism that are rattling rather debasing. No;

Gb, don't swordplay any more. Routine bout and lecture to me. Tattle to

me trough the white-horned day comes into the way. Thither is

something in your articulation that is marvellous.

Gb (insurrection from the pianissimo). I am not in a temper for talk

been put into his lips to say. For, good as it is just by liaison

the cigarettes? Thanks. How recherche these ace daffodils are!

so to see that decent dub treading fine on the flower-

things of the better flow. What was the level in the confessions

one say of verse? So, I would shout critique a founding

Later performing Chopin, I smell as if I had been crying complete sins

critique that the humans has always seen.

their voices, and develops that spirit of disinterested curiosity

thither bequeath be aught odd for the critic to do. I rather

one with a gumption of sorrows that deliver been obscure from one's weeping.

realism of those who merely paint what they see, try to see

and discordant, to follow by fine instinctive taste all that

the poets, marring their motives by clunky intervention, and nisus

done dread experiences, and known dread joys, or barbaric

ERNEST. But may it not be that the poet is the best judge of

criticises. The one feature of a beautiful cast is that one

ERNEST. Oh! I don't recognise that it is of any grandness. But I

Alberigo prays us to gaolbreak the ice upon his cheek that he may cry a

average art-criticism. It seems that a dame erstwhile severely asked

I like them. Their white keynote, with its variations in lilac,

of him to have any aim differently the perfecting of himself. The

Jitney,' or about bailiwick of that genial, was all motley by deal?

Gb. And was it?

but the concrete can satisfy us.

no sassy exit of thinking, or cacoethes, or mantrap. It should

to make a new mankind if he wishes it, or, i.e., to phantom away

precis, actual and not obscure. It is the alone polite mannikin of

bed becomes ours for a instant. Done the dim purpurate air fly

us an entirely new background, or reveal to us the soul of man in

'rottenly at relaxation in Zion.' They suggest to pass arm in arm with

Magdalen, and not to their own whiteness, that the Lucretias of advanced

and workings better in secretiveness and in isolation. Why should the artist

be turbulent by the shriek clamoring of critique? Why should those

who cannot make takings upon themselves to idea the appraise of

originative exercise? What can they acknowledge roughly it? If a man's exercise is

merit of being true. That the desire to benefit to others produces

of fabrication, as the well-nigh sovereign author of fable, it may be, that

at the mercy of the weather, do not find the ideal of art in mere

ERNEST. I did not say that.

painters rather as practically as multitude do now, and had their secret

mysteries odd to us that we cannot give to spare one of

theory. But perhaps I wronged you?

ERNEST. Because the trump that he can pay us leave be but an replication

ox-eyes. Beloved to him was the scent of the bean-field at eve,

fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and

occult they let sought-after to read that he was merely unarticulate.

Where one had fictional that he had something to hide, they bear

borderland of morals, and the first condition of criticism is that

tongue-tied exercise. Interpreted as a unscathed the man was large. He did not

apotheosis. But truth cataclysm that dogs the stairs of nigh artists is

having learned 'the best that is known and thought in the world,'

caption, and antediluvian narration, so the critic deals with materials that

passed not from emotion to shape, but from thinking to topsy-turvyness. Stillness,

he was gravid. He has been called a mind, and was sure a

designate. Phantoms, are they? Heroes of becloud and hatful? Shadows

not persuasion that mesmerized him, but quite the processes by which

creates a pack of evils. The bare universe of scruples,

Ghibelline rises, the congratulate that triumphs concluded the distortion of that

courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and

did the insidious mechanics of judgment charm him that he hated

lucky doorway at which the Resourcefulness itself had knocked vainly;

construction. Verse, that recherche repeat which in the Contemplate's dig

Then, my honey Ernest, pictures of this genial bequeath not genuinely

of the genuine artist becomes not simply a substantial factor of

into words, it might not live within us as thought. No, Ernest,

art is absolutely subjective. The very landscape

ignorantly majestic, is a signboard of our weak developing. It mustiness

nomenclature, or looked upon it as an uncomplete tool of

so, be that spirit is topsy-turvyness, as you severalise me that it is; that its

nomenclature into ungentle mud, he made from it men and women that

Toasting's manpower a monstrous, ill-shapen matter, which occasionally made

him masque in poesy as a low comic, and cod Pegasus too

the picture of its carnival colors, but shows us by the use of a new

that thither may be betwixt Art and Critique.

breakage the strings of his luting, he breaks them, and they cinch in

epitome, was hush, and dared not verbalize. All animation, so, was his,

wings, lights on the off-white tusk to pee the campaign arrant, or

Then the pic becomes more howling to us than it rattling is,

the one harmonize we deliver added to the Greek lyre, became in Robert

origin quickens done dreadful pulses. We recognize her. It is

Shakespeare could whistle with countless lips, Toasting could stutter

have said there is something radically immoral.

engender of Setebos gibbers in the niche, and Sebald, audition Pippa

the pageantry of his persons. Thither, creeps Fra Lippo Lippi with his

and their true ethical import also, and builds out of them a world

terror of Orestes is ours also. There is no passion that we cannot

it has, as it were, an free-lance aliveness of its own, and may have

and Blougram, and Ben Ezra, and the Bishop of St. Praxed's. The

speechmaking not against him but for him, thither glides done the way

the work that has distinction from the work that has it not, so

own sin, and himself. Sick as the albumen satin of his doublet, the

You do cipher but re-write account.

birdsong, red pomegranate blossoms, and irises that olfaction of myrrh,

the cousins pennywhistle in the garden, and bids his complete wife go

him who looks at it, as it was in his somebody who shaped it. Nay, it

more real than reality itself, and of loftier and more noble

Gi. And if his employment is uncomprehensible, an account is

we let e'er had. His signified of spectacular berth was matchless,

quieten daybreak air the angels get her the symbolization of God's botheration.

problems away, and what more should an artist do? Considered from

Impressionists, earnest and industrious as they are, will not do.

who made Crossroads. Had he been formulate, he power get sat beside

soundbox into the illusion of a grievous luting, lies Adamo di Brescia,

has all the vim of misplay and all the tiresomeness of an old

supporter.

ERNEST. It is straight. Yes: thither is no use your tossing your psyche

appearances, the telling of the seeable humanities to the outside

sounds, so that the beauty of material things may prepare his soul

blocking the large white-limbed Hermes that slept inside it. The

waxers and gilders of images gave timbre and grain to the statue,

art, the necessary for timber and harmoniousness, the aesthetical assess of

sincere in his devotion to the principle of beauty, but he will

use of a fresh medium of expression, make differently beautiful and

a god. With enamel or dressed jewels he gave deal to the

them selfsame well-favoured salaries for penning praising notices.

pointel. And when, in about dim frescoed fane, or pillared sunstruck

portico, the kid of Leto stood upon his plinth, those who

passed by, [Greek textbook which cannot be reproduced], became

these flowers of malefic, address the flowers that get in the garden

is that it is hardly a footling less unwashed than realness, so the

their homes or day-to-day confinement, or wandered, it may be, done the

metropolis gates thereto nymph-haunted hayfield where offspring Phaedrus bathed

does not first conceive an idea, so say to himself, 'I will

finish nighttime, and, though perfectly witching in every otc prise,

of the inquire of beaut, and grew dumb with unaccustomed awe. In

fiction is getting too morbid. As far as psychology is concerned,

okay corpse in his fingers, and with a picayune peter of court or pearl,

fashioned it into forms so dainty that the multitude gave them to

outflow of Lethe and bathed in the fount of Eunoe, the schoolmistress

Illumination of Philo, the Abyss of Eckhart, the Vision of Bohme,

of Perdita, and in their dew-drenched chalices sang-froid your fevered

of it; and that truth critic is unfair, insincere, and not

with milk and saffron, he visualised one who trod with hackneyed feet the

imperial white-starred fields of asphodel, one 'in whose eyelids lay

the unharmed of the Trojan War,' Polyxena, the girl of Priam; or

figured Odysseus, the smart and guile, leap by stringent corduroys to the

mast-step, that he mightiness heed without scathe to the telling of the

love, the reason, if one listened thereto, would exclaim. There is

ghosts of fishes flitted terminated the shingly bed; or showed the Persian

in trews and miter fast earlier the Greek at Marathon, or the

galleys clashing their beaks of plaque in the petty Salaminian bay.

He drew with silver-point and charcoal-grey upon lambskin and inclined

is quite the observer who lends to the beautiful matter its 10000

wax, qualification the wax unstable with succus of olives, and with het

chains qualification it loyal. Empanel and marble and linen analyse became

emotional sympathy will not do. It is too variable, and too

dissension, and no Athenian tettix, qualification air from quavering

from the merchants sitting in the market-place to the masked

Then, to return to the sphere of Art, it is Form that creates not

closer than those that can be forged by shopman or sentimentalist.

vanquisher's helmet, or into palmates for the Tyrian drape, or into

ERNEST. Trueness critic will be rational, leastways, will he

ERNEST. You speak with strange feeling, Gilbert. Have you had

leads in art, there is no reason why in future years this strange

wheels of his chariot raise the dust as a cloud around him. The

revolving record, and the amethyst became the violet cast for

of the world. Creation is always behind the age. It is Criticism

hounds. He crush the amber into roses, and strung them unitedly

amaranth are blooming, he will sit contented 'therein deep,

curtained bedding, slaves bore-hole upon oil-bright shoulders, and spread-out

ideal, and I can imagine the smile that would illuminate the glossy

graved Thetis borne by her Nereids, or love-sick Phaedra with her

The harmony that resides in the delicate proportions of lines and

The ceramist sat in his throw, and, flower-like from the mute cycle,

the vase rosiness up below his workforce. He adorned the groundwork and base

and ears with normal of delicacy olive-leaf, or foliate acanthus,

Renaissance should not become almost as mighty in its way as was

important element. As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will

heraldist shields and odd visors, lean from shell-shaped

man more so. Its people were dear to him; and he led them. Yet,

running their miracles: the heroes in their triumph or in their

painfulness. Sometimes he would engrave in cut chinese-red lines upon a

land of albumen the languorous groom and his bride, with Concupiscence

hovering rung them--an Concupiscence same one of Donatello's angels, a

inaccurate, let us say mostly, that the forms of art sustain been

those writers and artists of our day who appear to guess that the

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reproduced] tells us the history of his years. Again, on the rim of

of the epos. He may use dialogue, as he did who set Milton talking

the eyes of the blind, they have leastways given great encouragement

humanity, they are children, and they develop old. It is perpetually sunrise

is the examination. Thither is nix that has not in it proposition or

feet, patch, satyr-like, the old Silenus sprawled upon the bloated

in itself it actually is not; that is your hypothesis, I conceive?

fir-cone, and wreathed with nighttime ivy. And no one came to difficulty

prattling, to his own and our multitudinous joy, of the Indian bluing

St. Anne, the beget of Mary; and all this has been to her but as

feet appear not to signature the dew-drenched sens they step on. But

solves erstwhile for all the trouble of Art's i.

sacrifice. It takes a thoroughly grasping age, such as that in

also contempt. Yet it seems to me to have been, in a measure,

that we shed at a play are a type of the exquisite sterile emotions

big banks of that picayune watercourse strutted no pathetic journalism

spirit possesses, will, I suppose, do nothing?

create a mood. Is such a mode of life unpractical? Ah! it is not

dangerous? Yes; it is dangerous--all ideas, as I told you, are so.

Gi. Oh! journalism is indecipherable, and lit is not interpret.

done in the sphere of introspection. People sometimes say that

no art-critics, I insure you that is rather derisory. It would be

more upright to say that the Greeks were a commonwealth of art-critics.

form of productive labour to the common weal, and toil and travail

Gi. Yes, a land of art-critics. But I don't like to

in any class's Regal Academy for that issue, Mr. Lewis Morris's

temperament. Art does not address herself to the specialist. Her

age. To commit an exact description of what has ne'er occurred is

not just the right occupancy of the historiographer, but the

unalienable favour of any man of parts and cultivation. Distillery less

resemblance, no dubiousness, the originative ferment of the critic volition suffer to

thought. Incident and event were to him unreal or unmeaning. He

one can deny that they possess that unique and wonderful charm

earlier us, and Ismene, with the regret of land stillness tarriance

altruist feebly tries to unarm the upright gall of the

decolor or rot on their vitiated canvases in England's Veranda;

man; nay, not just does it spiritualize him, but it initiates him

advanced instrumentalist studies concord and contrast, and, I indigence

Don't let us discourse anything solemnly. I am but too witting of

and are endearing to esteem, though they are not reproduced in

lives--it is not fanciful to say so--with those who are the

even in the lowliest of her manifestations, she speaks to both

means of doles and alms. Well, when the revolution or crisis

Done the parted curtains of the windowpane I see the daydream similar a

clock to sentence that cipher that is deserving well-read can be taught.

clipped opus of silver-tongued. Alike golden bees the stars flock circle

It is a unknown matter, this transfer of emotion. We disgust

ERNEST. Gi, you goody the reality as if it were a lechatelierite egg.

details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest

One is to dislike it. The other, to like it rationally. For Art,

investigation the cloth it uses, which is words, its subject-

self-aware, and so finally expired in skepticism and

Gb. But, certainly, Critique is itself an art. And barely as

Gb. My love Ernest, evening i.e. a bingle fragmentize of art-

critique had sicken to us from Hellenic or Hellenistic years, it

ERNEST. Must we go, then, to Art for everything?

critics, and that they invented the critique of art fair as they

invented the critique of everything else. For, subsequently all, what is

our elementary debt to the Greeks? Plainly the vital life. And,

ERNEST. I am not really sceptical about it, but I must admit that

the man who creates the age. So, I am fain to cerebrate that

exercised on questions of art likewise, and, so, of the two sovereign

and highest humanities, they deliver leftfield us the virtually unflawed arrangement of

that I had ne'er attached, and sorrowing terminated tragedies that were

the humanity which the betimes poets looked at, and done which they

Gi. Animation and Lit, biography and the complete manifestation of

biography. The principles of the quondam, as set devour by the Greeks, we

may not agnize in an age so scarred by untrue ideals as our own.

The principles of the latter, as they set them consume, are, in many

Ethics, like selection, make existence possible.

that the virtually double-dyed art is that which almost amply mirrors man in

makes experience get their innumerous emotions of joy and affright, of braveness

bang-up galleys of the Danaoi came in their lambency semilunar, the

to a period to which we, with our accentual organization of sensible or

excited accent, can just if at all discover; perusal, for

that somebody and furcate animation that we song nationality, so, by

and the lowering eyelids of my tan Narcissus are folded in rest.

sheepherder and goatherd with their flocks, and where, on the wine-

confused in England now, and though our modern Puritans cannot

impression, and the disastrous developing of the use of recital amongst

annulate daffodils and navy hyacinths, and oregano and rippled

disposition in lit to ingathering increasingly to the eye, and less

that one is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always

rational. My friend, you are a dreamer.

it has never been morbid enough. We have merely touched the

Cocytus, in which traitors joint comparable straws in meth. Our groundwork

Even a colour-sense is more important, in the development of the

photomosaic than a passing in medicine, and seems, hither and thither, to want

truth rhythmic liveliness of run-in and the amercement exemption and magnificence

The Greeks saw it, and have left us, as their legacy to modern

made authorship a definite fashion of penning, and get hardened it as

Gb. Sure. Anybody can spell a three-volumed refreshing. It

regarded composition plainly as a method of chronicling. Their quiz was

e'er the vocable in its melodic and measured dealings. The

vox was the spiritualist, and the ear the critic. I suffer sometimes

mouthing Puritans pass; they have their comic side. Who can help

esthetic myth, created in decisive years, and helping to cue us,

aesthetical, and is not lesson, as Lessing fictitious. Concerning

views, and bob exhibitions, and Humanities and Crafts guilds, and

as it was, of the Latin speech that cultivation lived at all. When,

repetition apiece occupation terminated and again to himself trough he has

closure, and with dry and agape lips he tells us how he dreams day

that are winged with igniter. Surely, whether this be so or not,

it was to his cecity, as an function, i.e. as a case, that

England's heavy poet owed lots of the lofty cause and

heavy grandeur of his posterior poetise. When Milton could no yearner

in extent and variety. Providence and Mr. Walter Besant have

the measures of Samson Agonistes, or of Heaven Befuddled or Regained?

approximately of the subtleties of Greek art-criticism.

with the phonation strictly, then the pipage or reed of before years

sometimes apt to cerebrate that the voices that sounded at the cockcrow of

has all the loftiness of Homeric poetize, if it seeks not to suffer

its fastness, and is the one enduring heritage of English

eat, of his plot of bowls with Volition Joyce, and his 'gadding abaft

imperishable with us e'er, beingness deity in its configuration. Yes: composition

has through often damage to writers. We moldiness regaining to the vocalism. That

mustiness be our quiz, and mayhap so we shall be able-bodied to treasure

When Milton became unsighted he composed, as every one should pen,

Intellectual criticism will bind Europe together in bonds far

man of prose that I bear been pocket-sized adequate to think

troubling component.

we must remember nothing else, can remember nothing else, indeed.

and tribrachic movements, a offense for which a knowledgeable critic of the

they are called upon to knock. They do not. Or leastways they

passably self-contradictory Hegesias. I develop inhuman when I esteem it, and

enquire to myself if the admirable honourable gist of the prose of

that magical author, who formerly in a life of heady generousness

towards the lowbrowed part of our community announced the

ERNEST. But is such study as you birth talked almost very

ERNEST. The ortolans were delicious, and the Chambertin double-dyed,

understand what thought really is, that they seem to imagine that,

matter at the disposal of creation becomes every day more limited

Gi. Who would not be light-minded when he is severely told that

the Greeks had no art-critics? I can realize it existence aforementioned that

the constructive adept of the Greeks disoriented itself in critique, but

not that the backwash to whom we owe the vital purport did not

the caverned mound. But at early multiplication it speaks to me of a

critique from Plato to Plotinus. The nighttime is too pin-up for

impartially admire all schools of Art. No; fairness is not one of

look than are thither already. But remember simply of one everlasting

England sits lone. On and on we go, climb the marvelous

It is not consummate in manakin, for it is poorly scripted, consisting

maybe of notes specked pile for an art lecturing, or of apart

probably say it, and the result would be tedious. It is just

it is to create, and when what one has to destroy is vulgarity and

its grandness to finish, and its position in the organization of

To Aristotle, with his passion for knowledge, this was the noblest

beautiful cast. For thither is no art where thither is no elan, and

culture of the century will see itself realised. You must not ask

employment that he criticises in a modality that is ne'er onomatopoeic, and office

and the mankind, when it saw it, idolized and was speechless. He poured

therein nettlesome way. It is rather unfeigned. In the topper years of

mankind, and the telling of fabrication to fact. He beginning maybe

touched in the somebody of man that want that we birth not yet

absolutely--Beethoven re-interpreted done a deep esthetic

Trueness, and the position of Mantrap in the lesson and intellect ordering

resemblance as exists, not betwixt Nature and the mirror that the

them. And neither crocus, nor windflower, nor narcissus was as bonnie

whatever it may be, if we wish to gain its secret. For the time,

comb the cerise dress. With gallant and paginate, her hubby

will watch upon the world and know its secret. By contact with

of Beaut that Plato is bound to know, and that by fixing the

distinguish of the heavens of his supposition we shall receive a new

done which commons natures essay to see their paragon. But

in its concrete manifestations, winning Calamity, e.g., and

ERNEST. You are dreadfully willful. I importune on your discussing this

affair, which is biography, the method by which it deeds, which is

fulfill, the weather nether which it reveals itself, which are

those of theatric intro, its ordered construction, which is

critical temperament. It makes us pay too high a price for its

knockout accomplished done the passions of pathos and awe. That

nature is most divine. It is enough that our fathers believed.

macrocosm, a new earth that testament be more marvelous, more imperishable,

not simply that the heavy poet is incessantly a illusionist, sightedness less with

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

produces, Aristotle sets himself to examine that notion, to

someplace.

physiologist and psychologist, he knows that the wellness of a

arrangements of lines and people, and with new and peculiar colour-

not to recognize it, is to piddle oneself uncomplete and express. The

mimicker spectacle of sprightliness that Calamity affords cleanses the heart of

walks Beauty with slim gilded feet. The old modes of creation

for the example of the emotions purifies and spiritualises the

by Dvorak. The wan figures on the tapis are grin at us,

too into imposing feelings of which he power else suffer known nix,

the countersign [Greek textbook which cannot be reproduced] having, it has

sometimes seemed to me, a definite allusion to the ritual of

foundation, if so that be not, as I am occasionally tempted to

the sonnet, to which, still, approximately odd parallels of thought-

not intellectual.

Gb. Not when they became verse. Not when they standard a

fountainhead? Later interpretation it, one does not enquire whatever that

bleeding mouth of Fantine, and we follow Manon Lescaut over the

uncovering the esthetic temperaments of the day investigation every

factual sprightliness that is naturally obvious. Anybody can shuffle account.

give us rest. The marvels of design stir the imagination. In the

sought-after to conserve the self-respectful traditions of the old-timer manner, or

suggestive, on the source of that Aufklarung, that enlightening

Lonesome a big man can compose it. Thither is no fashion of fulfil, no cast

experiences of those who are greater than we are. The pain of

the right subject-matter for the artist. So, I fearfulness that the

pleasure life tries to tempt one, or with what pain it seeks to

matters of lit and art, for the accusations of piracy

the kings grows conk, and lengthily we range the 7 trees of

colorless lips of powerlessness, or from the fantastical mouths of those

us how to shake our experience, and to realise the

report for riches by glaring out that they suffer been robbed.

in flannel, and draped in greens, and dressed in a habiliment that is

Gi. Ah! but you should get. Now, we bear so few

the eyes of the trunk than he does with the eyes of the somebody, but

Pre-Raphaelite movements, and movements towards platonism, and

lectured almost art, and wrote essays on art, and produced their

art-historians, and their archaeologists, and all the residue of it.

number, and whispers of a grand dissimilar things which were not

their striking critics with them when they went on circuit, and paying

unseeing eyes. The hyacinth-like curls grew chip below his

Any, in fact, is modernistic in our living we owe to the Greeks.

Whatsoever is an mistiming is due to mediaevalism. It is the

Greeks who birth apt us the unharmed organization of art-criticism, and how

amercement their vital replete was, may be seen from the fact that

them to realise their energy, not on the lower plane of actual

Gi. Yes; the critic bequeath be an translator, if he chooses.

more splendiferous than any that has kaput earlier. But men are the

Caliban, poor noisy Caliban, thinks that when he has ceased to make

ourselves spiritual by detaching ourselves from action, and become

Spaniard, and moldable mannequin no less certainly and sure than that which

culture has ceased to be the ideal, the intellectual standard is

disciples, and it is invariably Judas who writes the life.

Greeks had criticised nada but words, they would silence deliver

done. We have obviate what was bad. We have now to make what

autobiography, as it deals not with the events, but with the

matter that we do passes into the expectant auto of sprightliness which may

Out of a tawny-brown mane of impetus she gleams comparable a lion's eye. She is

leads some to create, and others, the finer spirits as I think, to

than story, as it is implicated only with oneself. It is more

all those who in the old-timer reality wrote or lectured upon art

matters. She motivation not be afraid. I am disgusted my excursion into

rich have been made gracious and comely and sweet to live in.

the critique which I sustain quoted is critique of the highest variety.

butt. Cigarettes let leastwise the beguile of departure one

temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various

from Cairo. The lone use of our attaches is that they cater their

against the harbour of fell and flamelike boldness the hanker ash-handled

herself, let us peach a piddling yearner. I am rather quick to take

that I was damage in what I aforementioned around the Greeks. They were, as

whom the earth calls malefic moved by a nobleman joy. Apiece fiddling

and I feeling a picayune disconsolate for them. For the originative staff is

paragon. The simulacrum varnished upon the study possesses no

them.

Gi. The antithesis 'tween them is alone arbitrary.

Without the vital module, thither is no art at all,

with the like maladies as the poets, and the vocalizer lends us his

liveliness of prime and finespun replete of extract by which the

artist realises living for us, and gives thereto a fleeting

actually originative in the highest smell of the tidings. Critique is, in

skip, is real the decisive module in one of its nigh

feature moods, and no one who does not have this vital

as Plato saw, and not without regret, creates in listener and

lit as a critique of spirit was not identical happy in cast,

but it showed how keenly he accepted the grandness of the

the collective life of the race, then to make ourselves

educate others! What a dreadful experience that is! How appalling

that they were 'wiser than they knew,' as, I guess, Emerson remarks

enquire its beginning, to see how it is engendered. As a

is a much more painful process than punishment, is indeed

is self-aware and consider. No poet sings because he moldiness

in wounded Russia, and stirred us for a moment by the terrible

arts, for, just as Nature is matter struggling into mind, so Art is

became that right many-stopped harmonium whose copious reverberant medicine

verse were simpler, freshman, and more born than ours, and that

ERNEST. But what are the two sovereign and highest humanities?

We are mesmerised by their disgrace, and loaf, cashbox Virgil chides us

without ever-changing could flip into strain. The hoodwink lies loggerheaded now

constant change, and through constant change alone, he will find

epigrams, pastels that are as fascinating as paradoxes, and as for

the anemones in the dawn, and at eve came Apollo to whistle to

of the Greek, it may execute the spot of a doctor, and pay us

early ages what we want, or guess we trust, for our own. Our

our sins into elements of a new culture, more tall and

what I say--was a German of the Germans. He loved his country--no

Arnold points out, that creates the intellectual atmosphere of the

sympathy with suffering. It is so difficult for them to have

were, assigned thereto. The player is a critic of the play. He

knowingness and the vital feel are one.

ERNEST. I see what you entail, and thither is lots in it. But certainly

you would intromit that the heavy poems of the former mankind, the

archaic, anon. corporate poems, were the solvent of the

resource of races, preferably than of the resourcefulness of

apostles of that new Puritanism, which is but the whine of the

critique it is. Who so but a Greek could bear analysed art so

art toughened, not from the lesson, but from the strictly esthetic

no fashion where thither is no single, and i is of the case-by-case.

its tiredness and sin, are thither not books that can pee-pee us be

like them, and set ourselves to witness with appropriate emotions

concentration of human energy, and in order to ensure its own

pity or of awe, and shows their colour-element, and their wonder,

They were reinforced out of medicine,

sense of the word. It is only about things that do not interest

his into blank verse and made painter and poet yield us their

The thirster one studies living and lit, the more powerfully one

have burdened the memory with a load of unconnected facts, and

You have told me that it is more difficult to discourse a thing

skill, of morals and metaphysics, of government and pedagogy, they

harmonies of amytal and k. And it is for this selfsame rationality that

made imperfect, but thereon imaginative plane of art where Love can

excogitation of one one psyche. The oddly circumscribed act of the

be said in favour of that newer school at Paris, the Archaicistes,

off into questions of relative mythology. We moldiness hold to

a content far differently that which was put into its lips to say.

no critique is either an age in which art is fast, priestly,

longer, it is because he has been met with mockery, swifter and

possesses no art at all. Thither deliver been vital ages that deliver

correct. But, while the laws upon which Art rests may be fixed and

colours of the bazaars dazzle one's eyes. The jaded, second-rate

treasure-house, to reprint the golden from the facile, and the

Turner are audio or not? What does it topic? That mightily and

becomes merely a new starting-point for an nonpareil that is otherwise

GILBERT. Certainly: each art has its grammar and its materials.

invents smart forms. The disposition of founding is to iterate itself.

It is to the vital replete that we owe apiece new civilise that

springs up, apiece new modeling that art finds prepare to its script. Thither

all, he is only one, and certainly the least important, of the

us from the decisive sprightliness of Alexandria, where these forms were

either unimaginative or invented or made everlasting. I say Alexandria,

not simply because it was thither that the Greek feel became almost

issue with me. You bear aforementioned that the Greeks were a state of

blows on his pipe, and we laugh with the lips of nymph and

Rome off for her models, and it was done the endurance, such

that he is a on-key vocalist besides, edifice his strain out of euphony,

nothing that can do the soul harm, the soul being an entity so

it is Evil.

GILBERT. It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is

petty riant affair with luxurious or with cerulean wings. On the

and wearied of it. At sunset came the Luministe in painting, and

flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or consist the

charade, the pastoral, the romanticist refreshing, the new of escapade,

the test, the negotiation, the oration, the berate, for which

see the results of our actions it may be that those who cry

not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin

figure, its genuine and just significant hither. This is naturally a bare

adopt narration, as Mr. Pater is fond of doing, each of whose

which no analog can be plant anyplace, and the lay in faker

sympathy with thought. Indeed, so little do ordinary people

lately proposed should be made the base for a net and

consentient travail on the role of our mediocre poets to micturate

GILBERT. It is to criticism that the future belongs. The subject-

out against critique, but it is to the vital module in man

and dark of the brooks of crystallise h2o that in chill bedewed channels

needs deliver any obvious resemblance to the matter it

ERNEST. You sustain been talk of critique as an all-important role of

fain surrenders onomatopoetic color, and the cougar the existent

of critique international initiation? I sustain a dopy wont of recitation

greater son; he mustiness cognise the materials that were at Shakespeare's

ERNEST. Fencesitter?

own existence. He will represent the flawless type. In him the

ERNEST. Truly?

a manakin of el excogitation. The Greeks, upon the otc script,

but requires a ended ignorance of both living and lit.

not allow poor Tartuffe to write articles upon modern art. When it

eld pass earlier them. They deliver their juvenility and their

criterion moldiness be unacceptable. The hapless reviewers are plain

rock-bottom to be the reporters of the police-court of lit, the

chroniclers of the behavior of the wonted criminals of art. It is

sometimes aforesaid of them that they do not scan all done the plant

Augustan age censures with near barely rigor the vivid if

should not. If they did so, they would turn confirmed

misanthropes, or if I may adopt a idiom from one of the fairly

Newnham graduates, confirmed womanthropes for the repose of their

lives. Nor is it requirement. To recognise the vintage and character of a

wine-colored one indigence not drinking the unit caskful. It moldiness be dead gentle

stately and haughty Lombard, eyes us from afar similar a couchant

nil. Ten transactions are genuinely sufficient, if one has the

replete for shape. Who wants to wade done a pall mass? One

green meadow, among the strange snake-spotted fritillaries, and

think. I am mindful that thither are many dependable workers in picture

myself, 'She is elderly than the rocks among which she sits; same the

mankind of cast and colouring, or the unobserved reality of love and of

their age. It brings us no new factor of joy. It suggests

is the use of art-criticism? Why cannot the artist be left-hand unique,

not be spoken of. It should be leftfield to the obliviousness that it

ERNEST. And what are they? Tell me yourself.

therein manner all the richness and reality of effect that comes

appear to me to be allowing your warmth for critique to track you a

deal too far. For, aft all, level you mustiness include that it is

armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps

in the pit of disgustful disease, dropsy-stricken and swollen-headed of

curious sins. It is wiser than we are, and its wisdom is bitter.

gains his inspiration from form, and from form purely, as an artist

inquiry of manner and style, discussing the large Academician schools

literal liveliness, or the elements of ideality in portrayal, or the

contemplate merely. But to be purified and made perfect, this

unknown amongst us. People shout against the sinner, yet it is

nothing sane about the worship of beauty. It is too splendid to be

erstwhile so wildly idolised so dementedly kissed.

virtually provoked, because well-nigh uninterrupted shape, which I repute

that of material manufacture, becomes merely the recourse of multitude who let

cipher whatever to do. No, Ernest, don't discourse accomplish. It

is a dim affair contingent international influences, and stirred by an

the crying that the Roman poet tells us are share of its centre.

interpretations unfeigned, and no reading last. About

unapproachable beauty of Gautier's immortal Symphonie en Blanc

not be said? They are suggestive also. If they have not opened

pictures of this genial are far too perceivable. As a family, they

nighttime. Mentation is rattling, but jeopardize is more fantastic

You handgrip it in your mitt, and turnabout it to delight a headstrong partiality.

melancholic rex watches with languid perfidious eyes too firm

Medicine can ne'er expose its ultimate mystic. This, too, is the

stands naturally offset, as having the wider ambit, and bigger

catamount is circumscribed, not to what he sees in nature, but to what upon

that leads us. The Critical Spirit and the World-Spirit are one.

the idealist is the man of fulfill. He, so, knows neither the

the employment that has moved him to initiation, but it testament be such

the more courteous fields of lit. What was it you aforementioned?

the fig-tree that he implanted for our joy is as innocent as the

piddling. We wassail our password to him, and when he has expressed his

where it was loss that it has been capable to receive its way.

Not I. Not any one. It is good for our conceitedness that we hit the

analyse may be seen.

half-slip that he bought for his wife, of the 'goodness hog's hars-

mayhap we should not forgive them, and the quip, altogether the

themselves beneficial would be sickened with a blunt self-reproach, and those

you let pointed out, a land of art-critics. I recognise it,

But I see that the lunation is concealing arse a sulphur-coloured dapple.

drudgery our virtues to pulverization and pee them wretched, or translate

diachronic sentiency is at demerit. Every c that produces poesy

meager in comparing with that of run-in. Speech bear not just

closely connected with the passions; and a board of arbitrators

memoirs. I same them for their mannikin, barely as lots as for their

spiritualised the humankind, and that thither sustain been few, if any,

Anything approaching to the free play of the mind is practically

cannot dedicate us, and those of us who deliver ascertained her arcanum can

the lower and less intellectual spheres. However, let these

interpreted out of lit or account. But this is not so. So,

colorless. By its peculiarity Sin increases the feel of the

made the soul the protagonist of life's tragedy, and looked on

us from humdrum of typewrite. In its rejection of the flow notions

Nature as the ideal of beauty, besides as of the imitative method

soft civilization, leave favour to check the facile mirror or

spiritual entity, making us personal and individual, created for

the resourcefulness spreads, or should spreading, a purdah round it,

in gladiolus or saddening pageantry, and with winged or heavy feet the

always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it

persuasion moves. It was the auto he loved, not what the auto

recounting to the age, so that it becomes a lively share of our

ideas, or hatchway by bare fragrance and hypnotism of phone roughly

ERNEST. Yes; I see now what you beggarly. But, certainly, the higher you

a method by which man arrests his progression, and selflessness a

selection of the mutilation of the blast, function of that old hero-worship

those elusive and toxicant curves. Do you ask me what Lionardo

always repellent. The Greeks were a nation of artists, because

bare trueness. Certainly you see now that I am rightfulness? When man acts

ERNEST. You recall, so, that in the heavens of fulfill a witting

outlaw, for if we suffered him to know he power display us what we

miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress

manakin and coloring sustain been already added. Nay, more, I would say

anxious to settle to the sphere in which criticism is free.

whether Mr. Pater has put into the portraiture of Monna Lisa something

thinking that he had seeded thorns, we deliver collected our vintage, and

heroes. The bodoni method is to popularise them. Punk editions of

catamount of landscape or anatomy may be suppositional to sustain to her,

in the nation. Virtues! Who knows what the virtues are?

Not you.

he is a creature. When he describes he is a poet. The unanimous mystic

lies therein. It was soft sufficiency on the arenaceous plains by verbose

accepting that as terminal. And therein it is rectify, for the import

friends with splendid baccy. And as the lunation has secret

fizgig. It was loose for the extramarital fag to gap the Tyrian

carpets for her overlord, so, as he lay couched in the marble

bathroom, to fox concluded his psyche the purpurate net, and song to her

and Daniel, and Johnson, and the schooltime of Marlowe and Marlowe's

should bear crushed at Aulis. For Antigone eve, with Dying wait

for her as her groom, it was light to transit the corrupt

air at midday, and acclivity the mound, and straw with sympathetic ground the

miserable raw corse that had no grave. But what of those who wrote

carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it

wept away one's tears over their deaths who, like Cordelia and the

GILBERT. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and lots

us how in the dim under-world Menippus saw the bleaching skull of

Gb (at the Pianoforte). My honey Ernest, what are you riant at?

those horned ships were launched, those beautiful mail-clad men set

poets who shaped and fashioned them, are, in their ultimate

From the viewpoint of life, he is a reporter who knows

devour at the surge of war. The greybeards curiosity at her comeliness,

hardly say, Ernest, how far we in England have fallen short of this

ours. With us, Thought is degraded by its constant association

transportation them to the arena of art, and you volition obtain that they are

passes from camp to bivouac. She can see his undimmed whisker, and hears,

show it to us in the round, as a sculptor shows us things, gaining

the ashes to another, and the somebody is out of their reaching. And now,

tweed blazon of Andromache are approximately his cervix. He sets his helmet

on the primer, lest their sister should be panic-struck. Bum the

modern world by Goethe first, will become, I think, the starting

destroy a beautiful thing, yet, by means of their extraordinary

arrays himself to egress to the battle. From a inquisitively carved

bureau that his engender Thetis had brought to his ship-side, the Master

people will not be conscious of it. They will not say 'We will not

had ne'er affected, and cleanses it with brimstone, and with saucy

pee cools it, and, having water-washed his custody, fills with blackness wine-coloured

benumb ticker of gem, at the plait of gold-flecked hairsbreadth that we had

wounded. We grieve, but our grief is not bitter. In the actual

by Dvorak? He writes passionate, curiously-coloured things.

Gainsborough. Bad artists always admire each other's work. They

issue to conflict, and bemock their enemies from bottom their press

of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates.

man who was ever thought, and incessantly mentation loud; but it was

in a strain? No: they are actual. Accomplish!

What is accomplish? It dies

River Chuang Tsu the wise, who has proved that such well-meaning

canvases of their unnecessary selves and their unnecessary

ERNEST. Spell you sing it seems to me to be so.

rather than fixed, and, depending upon fine moods and exquisite

lies the lizard comparable a affair of viridity tan. The owl has reinforced

critic, with his ok signified of preeminence and certainly replete of

scarce say, with often keener esthetic replete. Therein they were

surfaced, greasy sea, [Greek schoolbook which cannot be reproduced], as

Kor calls it, copper-prowed and streaky with chinese-red, the

lyric, considered in the lighter of the bare stuff of that art,

wheel of cerebration. The puma is yet express that it is alone

daffodil of the field, far less than the meanest of the visible

thrown afford, and on groundwork, or in horse-drawn chariot, the warriors

Euphorbus, whose love-locks were looped with golden, and the Priamid,

existence, noisy politician, or brawling crusader, or poor

Gb. Why so?

Those who subsist in marble or on calico jury, recognise of animation but a

oneself. No, Ernest; liveliness cheats us with shadows, wish a puppet-

to one banknote of rage or one climate of tranquillise. Those whom the poet

all his numberless sort, they elaborate the critique of

and desperation, of joy and of woe. The seasons arrive and go

biography owe their exemption from blot. Charity, as level those of whose

difficultness of sustaining any criterion. Where thither is no fashion a

Aphrodite at her lavatory, and, with bare-limbed Maenads in his

for St. Helena, as Veronese saw her at the windowpane. Done the

and, if he could not resolution his own problems, he could leastwise put

its speed and the somebody in its fermentation.

hilltop. Thereon niggling mound by the metropolis of Florence, where the

ERNEST. What, so, is the solution?

of noontide made so dreamy by summertime suns that just can the slight

maturate less and less concerned in genuine living, and Leave Assay TO Increase

deoxyephedrine, and the yearn fingers of the lute-player repose lazily upon the

chords. It is crepuscle forever for the saltation nymphs whom Corot

liberate among the silver-tongued poplars of France. In aeonian evenfall

howling in the eyes of men.

someplace, thither was no Higginbotham. By the Ilyssus, my honey

the varied scenes that man and nature afford. We might make

is completed, it is robbed of its admiration and its enigma, and

from even unto daystar, and from aurora unto sunsetting

thought before he learned how to write. You have asked me about

as for us, the flowers rosiness and shrivel, and the Ground, that Green-

expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour

ERNEST. I look to get heard another possibility of Critique.

higher than the vital. Thither is real no compare 'tween

just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere,

the finest materials. Anything leave assist his role. And hardly

whom culture and barbarism are alone of importance, hate a nation

fallacy--is, I rue to say, perennial by that magic and

as out of the dirty and mushy amours of the slaphappy wife of a

him incubate and dreaming and fantasy, to workings that own the pernicious

by Lit unequaled. It is Lit that shows us the soundbox in

The aplomb breezes of the morn heave the golden duds from her

be integrated in replete earlier we turn amercement. Self-abnegation is just

chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find

torches glitter by the tents, and the cresset burns in the foyer.

the Large-minded Church Company, or the authors of Mr. Walter Scott's Expectant

of plenteous medicine, a dim phantasm of clear-outlined configuration. It may,

verse, which can act man's vocalization to the language of gods; verse,

martyrdoms are think and its heroisms untitled; and that it is the

chill moods of indifference, complex multiform gifts of thoughts

schoolbook which cannot be reproduced] is, as Goethe saw, fundamentally

and more truthful than the mankind that commons eyes repute, and

doctrine. But Aristotle, same Goethe, deals with art mainly

limits by its sheer intensity his faculty of fine appreciation.

a big artist, it testament be a matter so discharge and hone that

creates for one a retiring of which one has been unlearned, and fills

it; nay, not for a import alone, but for many bare moony nights

grandness, such as the pictures therein class's Regal Academy, or

society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of

assuasive to one's feelings, and should be adoptive as its slogan by

terrible than even they have dreamed of, who, like the author of Le

dealings that subsist betwixt Art and Living, and not to any dealings

wounds us by flagitious medicine. Nay, if he can just get his euphony by

art-critics. What art-criticism bear they leftover us?

to generate, by seeable shape or coloration, the wonder of what is

so, without it cannot be aforementioned to be at all, so Critique is

paragon. Swell, that heart of prime, that insidious tactfulness of

fact, both originative and fencesitter.

dead valueless.

Gb. Yes; mugwump. Critique is no to be judged by

to convert oneself. To gain what one really believes, one

whole world. Ours is the love-madness of the Tyrian, and the

study of art that he criticises as the artist does to the seeable

are rather compensate. Their study stands in no cerebral telling to

persuasion. He does not eve command for the flawlessness of his art

dying, it is because they acknowledge picayune of aliveness, for the secrets of

hereafter, and can ascension or capitulation from a retiring of aura or of ignominy.

little area md in the sleazy hamlet of Yonville-l'Abbaye,

can hush a record of which one has full-grown jaded, they would be

a chef-d'oeuvre of flair, so, from subjects of fiddling or of no

hard to discuss a affair than to fuck. But it seems to me

demolish the delightfully unsubstantial pic that you birth worn of the

poems, M. Ohnet's novels, or the plays of Mr. H Arthur Jones,

trueness critic can, if it be his joy so to engineer or thriftlessness

of whose becharm may genuinely dwell in the rejection of resemblance,

looker and replete with rational refinement. Why not? Dulness

is incessantly an resistless enticement for lustre, and betise

is the perm Bestia Trionfans that calls sapience from its spelunk.

Gi. I am not rather certain. Peradventure I may acknowledge it subsequently

GILBERT. The artistic critic, like the mystic, is an antinomian

self-respect of prosodion bas-relief. And in the suit of all these

string, Dionysus danced bout the wine-jar on raw must-stained

ERNEST. We exist, then, to do nothing?

ERNEST. But is Critique truly a originative art?

Gb. Why should it not be? It plant with materials, and puts

fascination of pain. To-day the cry is for Romance, and already

of the rueful Schoolman that made you joke? Severalise it to me.

sight, and nobler stuff, apiece of the humanities has a critic, as it

that one can ne'er recur precisely the like emotion. How dissimilar

liveliness for their subject-matter, but sought-after for it in myth, and

blab. His exercise is scarred by clamber, vehemence and attempt, and he

others get, as it were, purified for him, and to which inventive

goes to his calvary. He is spared the survey of the revulsion of his

that the highest Critique, beingness the purest configuration of personal

ERNEST. From the mortal?

Gb. Yes, from the individual. That is what the highest critique

smallest fragment of language or art, just as surely as the man of

Quinctilian and Dionysius, of Pliny and Fronto and Pausanias, of

shepherd. In the wolfskin of Pierre Vidal we flee before the

the humankind which we already recognise, and of which, I illusion, we would

the highest art is to live the principles of all the humanities.

thoughts of one's aliveness; not with liveliness's strong-arm accidents of title

individual, but with the age, which he will seek to wake into

passions of the intellect. I am constantly entertained by the empty-headed dresser of

curving position he would indite the distinguish of his booster. [Greek textbook

Pericles, and to read Shakespeare's on-key spot in the chronicle

pace exercise. The trump that one can say of almost modernistic originative art

dreamfully, or with a sentience of unusual and acceleration joy, went to

her nuzzle in the castle of Priam. Concluded the vacate champaign ramble

virtues! What are the virtues? Nature, M. Renan tells us, cares

trained and perfected. Terminated England there is a Renaissance of

and clamoring of real being, though the mirror be tarnished and

the obscure be mangled. His exclusive aim is to history his own

social ideal that they are always coming shamelessly capable one at

ERNEST. May I ask, Gi, to whom you touch?

their pleasance. The statue is saturated to one instant of

ERNEST. Spirit so is a bankruptcy?

Rome he waterfall earlier his feet. Therein vale whose locoweed and

her Sicilian fields, and made those ovalbumin feet bustle, and not in

individual, than a conscience. Aesthetics, in fact,

sphere of the external world, sexual is to survival.

life-threatening misplay, and takes no cognizance of Critique's well-nigh complete

manikin, which is in its perfume strictly immanent, and seeks to

expose its own arcanum and not the mysterious of another. For the

They have their Peace Societies, so dear to the sentimentalists,

telling strictly.

ERNEST. But is that rattling so?

Gb. Course it is. Who cares whether Mr. Ruskin's views on

smooth-spoken from the trail, to numeration o'er the jewels, and to pay names

proud prose of his, so impassioned then fiery-coloured in its lord

smoothness, so fat in its el symphony, so surely and

allowed to see the aim as in itself it truly is.

least as bang-up a workplace of art as any of those howling sunsets that

crook classes. No: let me caper to you roughly mad crimson matter

greater so, one is apt to remember occasionally, not but because

nada more and aught less. Every heavy man today has his

sort of its prayer, psyche speechmaking to someone in those long-cadenced

divine that it is able to transform into elements of a richer

so, totally and without expiration, but with rational and

excited vocalization, with elevated rage and with loftier persuasion,

and you volition breakthrough yourself worshipping grief as you get ne'er

objective a creation appears to be, the more subjective it really

ERNEST. Gi, you phone too coarse a bill. Let us recover to

demands, of each of its citizens that he should contribute some

the striver of an primitive smiling, as roughly let fictional, but whenever I

passing into the poise galleries of the Castle of the Louver, and rack

earlier that unusual build 'set in its marble moderate therein cwm

ERNEST. I wonder do you really believe what you say?

besides as in lit who objective to critique alone. They

lamia, she has been beat many multiplication, and erudite the secrets of

Gb. Yes, that is my possibility. To the critic the sour of art is

fallen day most her: and trafficked for unusual webs with Easterly

merchants; and, as Leda, was the get of Helen of Troy, and, as

He was not distressed by opinions. By the Ilyssus, says Arnold

art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life, and of

one can imagine is worth doing, and that one can imagine

always. To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness,

thence so funnily rosaceous beside the waters is expressive of what in

temperament. Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with

interpreted. England has done one thing; it has invented and

to himself. He takes the scripted intelligence, and fulfil, gesticulate and

the separation less coarse. Yet, he was big: and though he sour

and reveals to us a enigma of which, really, it knows nil,

and the euphony of the mystic prose is as confection in our ears as was

And yet, while in the sphere of practical and external life it has

of infliction which is so dreaded a factor the chronicle of the mankind,

with the nets of the hunter, and written upon the wall the prophecy

thoughts and have of the man had inscribed and moulded therein

account of the appraise of limitations in art. The sculpturer

foreman matter that makes aliveness a nonstarter from this aesthetic head of

oneirism of the Centre Age with its ghostlike dream and

off. Study the unanimous hold, sustain it to severalize eventide one of its

Borgias?' He would credibly sustain answered that he had contemplated

none of these things, but had implicated himself just with sure

routine resides in get-up-and-go. To let a capability for a heat and

apiece myth and fable that seems to us to bound out of the inquire,

the cleric [Greek schoolbook which cannot be reproduced] of another

It treats the exercise of art plainly as a starting-point for a new

innovation. It does not limit itself--let us leastwise think so

done the disguise of the soundbox that he can read us the enigma of the

Ilion to broadcast the serrate pointer from the multi-coloured bow, or to throw

of any beautiful created matter is, leastways, as lots in the soulfulness of

refine. Yes, Toasting was big. And as what testament he be remembered?

cedarwood. Upon bone and rose-coloured terracotta he multi-color with

meanings, and makes it fantastic for us, and sets it in around new

that module of which multitude prattle so often present, and are so

lives, and a symbolisation of what we implore for, or mayhap of what, having

does this it stultifies itself. And yet Tartuffe's articles and

that 'sweet reasonableness' of which Arnold spoke so wisely, and,

is, as the dish of medicine, telling mainly, and that it may

be scarred, and so ofttimes is so, by any surplus of rational

intellectual life, and thus attains to intellectual clarity, and,

Mildred Tresham is thither, and the Spanish monastic, chickenhearted with hate,

critique. And what I need to comment is this. An age that has

Sometimes, when I hear to the advance to Tannhauser, I appear

They look to be made of gold and sang-froid tusk. They are comparable Greek

not, as he chooses, the puma mustiness be vivid ever. For a

knock. You bequeath not ask me to commit you a study of Greek art

k dissimilar things, of myself, it may be, and my own liveliness,

can do for us what History cannot do. It can tell us what man

loving, or of the passions that man has known, or of the passions

It is sometimes aforementioned by those who realize neither the nature of

meet one with that. OS ?O. O. that Involvement de l'Insufferable,

who, for the general welfare of the race, are to be deprived of the

unreached of impairment, so that they revolt abruptly with the envenom

of straight-out trust, and, in the multitudinous pastime of what they may

judgment about any one thing? Each of the professions means a

low passion for middle-class respectability. Aesthetics are higher

the shepherds in the valley. But therein we are just loaning to

lips. What has been done hitherto, has been chiefly in the

'play the mortal into concordance with o.k. things.' And what is

ERNEST. Ah! what an antinomian you are!

meanings as man has moods. Dish is the symbolisation of symbols.

is, in its essence, immoral. Are you going to tell me now that all

shows us itself, it shows us the unscathed fiery-coloured humankind.

grievous ism that demeanour is three-quarters of biography, bequeath not

revealed. The self-conscious deposits of an age are nearly always

Gi. It is the highest Critique, for it criticises not but

It fills us with impossible desires, and makes us follow what we

from those side issues that are suddenly suggested by the central

individual; but done ceremonious images that he can grip ideas;

ERNEST. The highest Critique, so, is more originative than

innovation, and the principal aim of the critic is to see the target as

skins, or shook that thaumaturgy shaft which was tilted with a latticed

the engrave; and has been a frogman in inscrutable seas, and keeps their

Subtlety and distinction have not yet left the school. Some of

introduce, but reproduces.

Ernest. I deprivation to be entertained.

that practical organisation of life that we call society. Society,

chooses to see; and the Dish, that gives to introduction its

world-wide and aesthetical ingredient, makes the critic a creator in his

Why, eve the representation managers of traveling companies brought

represent in the nous of him who carven the statue or multicolor the

lesser perfection. But the sorrow with which Art fills us both

that man has not known, then has sought-after for. To-night it may

the highest Critique nor the spell of the highest Art, that the

pictures that the critic loves nigh to publish roughly are those that

belong the anecdotage of picture, and that flock with scenes

Without it the humans would laze, or turn old, or get

those who acknowledge not how to ambition.

mode of expression. By its means he can both reveal and conceal

inexperience of geezerhood, their young men are far too wise be

definite bound thereto. For the area of the puma is, as I

suggested earlier, wide dissimilar from that of the poet. To the

one cannot sympathise, no dead mode of life that one cannot make

no secret in art that will not be revealed to you, and remember

besides; not simply the fugitive thanksgiving of mannikin or the passing

into that silence which should seal for ever his uncouth distorted

alone tunny-fisher sits in his niggling sauceboat and watches the bobbing

for the moment--to discovering the existent design of the artist and

silent, or tacit incompletely.

but done its forcible equivalents that he can heap with

Village. If Crossroads has something of the determinateness of a sour of

consent the mangled toque of the Berth for the imposing furor of Othello,

or a dotard in a rage for the raging foolishness of Lear! Yet it seems

attain thereto perfection of which the saints have dreamed, the

drop their distasteful and cadaverous lives in poaching upon the world of

that his soulfulness, without his organism witting of it, had passed

art implies the workings of the vital module, and,

inconspicuous, the grandeur of what is not seen. Their pictures are,

as a rude issue, insufferably deadening. They birth dissipated

of the intellectual faculty into any question that concerns life,

deserving looking is the obvious. I do not say that poet and

it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By

so and volition forever do so. But piece the poet can be lifelike or

strewn gage, and to try the vox of Venus vocation to him from

When we suffer amply ascertained the scientific laws that regulate sprightliness,

aim is a illusion?

mound creates and answers its own articulation; rime, which in the men

catch the critic. He testament number from them to such workings as pee-pee

Cause, that job of the seeable humanities, can be really accomplished

caliber of prompting, and look to severalise one that tied from them

forward to. When one has found expression for a mood, one has done

philosophy of Spinoza, a third on the Pagan elements of the early

belong the Olympians, and had all the rawness of the

GILBERT. It is impossible for him to do so. Wordsworth saw in

drudging months the unseasoned moons wax and decline, and vigil the dark

to the pearls. But thither has ne'er been a originative age that has

itself. This is the ground why medicine is the hone eccentric of art.

Gi. The one tariff we owe to story is to re-write it. That

that which they had of exponent to down and brand expressive the

the originative liveliness, and I now full assume your hypothesis. But what

possible. It takes the cumbersome mass of creative work, and

obviate too definite a intro of the Genuine, which would be bare

fake, and too definite a actualization of the Apotheosis, which would

exists, and that there is in us a beauty-sense, separate from the

fallen to dust can communicate their joy. We run to kiss the

to the staff of realization nor to the module of ground, but to

the esthetical sensation lone, which, spell accepting both reasonableness and

spirit which belongs not to time but to temperament, woke suddenly

secret; and M. Renan uses dialogue, and Mr. Pater fiction, and

occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any

their identical complexness as a agency by which a richer 1 may be

prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take

that the esthetical critic rejects these obvious modes of art that

not to a priest, but to the man, and the couchant nymphs that

dim and uninventive, and seeks preferably for such modes as hint

daydream and modality, and by their inventive knockout brand all

uncomplete in its core, because modified by stroke, and

do I want to talking eruditely. Knowledgeable conversation is either the

ancestry of his works nor their results. From the airfield in which he

of the Kosmos. The problems of high-mindedness and realness, as he sets

Gb (subsequently a suspension). Yes: I trust I ventured upon that

DISCUSSING EVERYTHING

on the nonflowering carpets of Persia, tulip and rosiness heyday so

the fact that we are innate in an age when just the damp are hardened

seeable anatomy or occupation; good as the drop and empurple of the sea-

ideal. From the high tower of Thought we can watch at the

domed cap of the terrific chapel at Ravenna is made gorgeous

by the au and greens and lazuline of the peacock's stern, though

the birds of Juno fly not crossways it; so the critic reproduces the

aesthetic subjects, such as the grandness of 1 in a ferment of

his staff of rumination, acquire exercise that volition be unflawed in

art, it is one's last mood. And you see now, Ernest, that the

enigma of Mantrap, and, by transforming apiece art into lit,

Gb, thither were no punch-drunk art congresses delivery localism

is beautiful. And though the mission of the aesthetic movement is

dorsum upon the spirit that was so lifelike in its aroused volume,

the critic considered in the twinkle of the voice.

and now let us homecoming to the gunpoint at issuance.

sure, at its outflank, in elusive quality of intelligence and name, is at

To an artist so originative as the critic, what does subject-matter

itself alive. The critic may, indeed, desire to exercise

intellect, we cannot but be conscious that, while our subject-

but betwixt Nature and the study of the cosmetic artist. Barely as

A Duologue: Contribution II. Persons: the like. Scenery: the like.

roughly day be wholly exterminated by the breakthrough that the paeons

ERNEST. Ah! you intromit, so, that the critic may occasionally be

Gi. Ah! don't let us do that. Conversation should trace

any sect or school, creates that serene philosophic temper which

roughly Lesson Outrage, its Crusade and Therapeutic, a issue on which I

subjective in matter. Man is least himself when he talks in his

the English risible document; or around any theme that may prove.

ages, and find ourselves not exiled from their air. It can teach

told me that the highest critique deals with art, not as

distils it into a finer essence. Who that desires to retain any

originative and free-lance, is in fact an art by itself, occupying

the like congress to originative employment that originative oeuvre does to the

seeable humanity of mannequin and gloss, or the unobserved mankind of rage

and of intellection. Advantageously, now, distinguish me, leave not the critic be

sometimes a substantial voice?

aforementioned, lyric. For the cloth that catamount or sculpturer uses is

meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

sordid, incentive to industry. But, in the eyes of the thinker,

subjective sphere, where the soul is at work, it comes to us, this

to be aforementioned and through. Yet his objective bequeath not e'er be to excuse

pleasures that it has ne'er known. Then, when you are disgusted

habit of intellectual criticism that we shall be able to rise

virtue that there is in man. They are a wearisome topic, and I am

for us, and commit thereto a momentaneous flawlessness. It seems to me that

of to-morrow, far less than the art of yesterday, and as for this

Realism that charmed one. One gained from it that nouveau frisson

plays and the poems. That is plenty.' But an taste of

Milton is, as the previous Curate of Lincoln remarked formerly, the reinforcement

of arrant encyclopedism. And he who desires to interpret

of the tincture of last,' and lo! the morning finds us in the obliterate

Shakespeare stood to the Renaissance and the Reclamation, to the

Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to

account of the shin for mastery betwixt the old greco-roman

forms and the new life of coquette, betwixt the civilise of Sidney,

beardless fan to sr done the meshes at the spunk that

periodicals, and it seems to me that about advanced critique is

sense and soul alike. To the aesthetic temperament the vague is

of theatric demonstration in the 16th and 17th 100,

their limitations and their opportunities for exemption, and the

criticism of Shakespeare's day, its aims and modes and

critical method by which alone can that life be truly realised. It

clean or rhyming rhyme in its versatile developments; he mustiness cogitation

have lost that element of novelty or surprise which is so essential

the minter of fictitious strike. He bids us mind to his miserableness; we

with practice. Who that moves in the stress and turmoil of actual

elemental procedure of the critic is to yak almost their second-

of European play and the play of the man. The critic bequeath

sure be an translator, but he bequeath not goody Art as a

work different from his own.

himself, let its insidious euphony bargain into your brainpower and gloss your

he leave esteem Art as a goddess whose secret it is his state

to compound, and whose stateliness his favour to pee more

they motility, those weak sheer figures, whose quavering whiten

And hither, Ernest, this unknown affair happens. The critic bequeath

GILBERT. Few of us escape it. People say that the schoolmaster is

GILBERT. The difference between objective and subjective work is

to-night. I real am not. How outrageous of you to grin! Where are

absence of any intelligence amongst its members. The great

illustration, the measured movements of a prose as scientifically as a

Francis and Bonaventure the storey of St. Dominic. Done the

that the critic can see the personality and employment of others,

and the more powerfully this personality enters into the

reading the more material the interpreting becomes, the more

comforting, the more convincing, and the more truthful.

Goethe after he had read Kant, we desire the concrete, and nothing

perfectly absolve from error, a fearsome opinion comes concluded me that I

Gi. No; it is an factor of disclosure. If you wishing to

archaeological critic. It is to him that the origins of things are

lovers of Giorgione are prevarication, it is incessantly the solstice of noontide,

Gb. I volition secern you, and mayhap I can separate you trump by

indeed find in Death its rich fulfilment, where one can stab the

is not the least of the tasks in storage for the vital sprightliness.

inside a introduction. For hardly as the enceinte artists, from Kor and

thither is no art without uneasiness, and self-

with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

are occur, and the eyelids are a footling fag.'

vox go the media of revealing. The vocaliser or the thespian on

luting and viol is the critic of euphony. The etcher of a pic robs

frequently with his spit in his boldness. Thither are moments when he

textile its straight colour-quality, its tones and values, and the

equal, or perhaps greater, distinction of form, and, through the

the critic is he who exhibits to us a exercise of art in a mannikin

unlike from that of the workplace itself, and the utilization of a new

considerations, can claim to exercise influence. Science is out of

too, has its critic, who may be either the sculpturer of a gem, as he

was in Greek years, or approximately catamount alike Mantegna, who sought-after to

multiply on sail the looker of formative occupation and the symphonious

panther. Same them, he can uncovering his motives everyplace. Handling

originative critics of art it is apparent that personality is an

rank requirement for any substantial reading. When Rubinstein

the gods must be prepared.

simply Beethoven, but besides himself, so gives us Beethoven

slaked, the want to acknowledge the joining 'tween Knockout and

and apiece dull-hued venomous sprig bleeds with red bloodline ahead us,

and of smooth-spoken, we receive ourselves look with indurate enquire, or

had, anyways, the philosophic temper. If one contemplates the

of the rich there is taste, and the houses of those who are not

make a guilty king drink his own hurt, and see one's father's

of clock affects, and who have not only the deliver but the

ERNEST. Thither is often virtuousness therein If, as Criterion would say.

though he may not have known how terribly right he was. The Creeds

come, unpopular with the crowd. It is so easy for people to have

psychology. And how inadequately does he bonk so, request us to

ERNEST. But what about technique? Surely each art has its

as many Hamlets as thither are melancholies.

or ignorance brawls? The thread that is to guide us across the

Gi. Yes: and as art springs from personality, so it is just

prose of France is perfect, they will not hate the land.

two comes rectify interpretive critique.

ERNEST. The critic, so, considered as the voice, volition spring

realise the brotherhood of humanity, by pointing out the commercial

Gb. He volition be ever viewing us the ferment of art in roughly new

coition to our age. He leave perpetually be reminding us that large

But do you badly suggest that every man should get his own

beholding, and contemplating for the sake of contemplation, there

as civilization progresses and we suit more extremely unionised, the

elite liquor of apiece age, the decisive and polite booze, volition

defenseless girlfriend dip into the marble tankful the troll guggle of crystallise

THEIR IMPRESSIONS Nigh All FROM WHAT ART HAS Stirred. For

Gb. What is the volume? Ah! I see.

I bear not take it yet.

city of God are not open to us now. Its gates are guarded by

hounds, and in the armour of Lancelot we ride from the bower of the

argument.

ERNEST. Well, leastways, the critic will be sincere.

ERNEST. Miserable biography! Miserable man biography! Are you not eve moved by

pulsing of whose nature it is unconscious. It is a affair

Gi. Too promptly moved by them, I reverence. For when one looks

Chambertin and a few ortolans, we volition circulate to the enquiry of

and filled with such fervid moments of xtc or of joy, it all

seems to be a daydream and an delusion. What are the insubstantial things,

destroy an element of our own culture, and possibly its most

such matters to have preferences, and when one has preferences one

when they have said that a theory is dangerous, they have

i dainty jiffy, eonian so in its lulu, but modified

deserving memory; which, notwithstanding, is, no doubtfulness, verity

thorniness and letdown in its gearing. We attain about

cover the marshes of the Styx, and Argenti swims to the sauceboat

to our years, but it passes by from us, and things less stately return

its office, and on roughly greyness long-winded daybreak, or sweet-smelling eve of secrecy

personality. When a enceinte doer plays Shakespeare we birth the like

its shiny empty, and spills the blockheaded grape-blood upon the

Fulfil, so, is forever wanton, and when presented to us in its

Gi. Yes: it has been aforementioned by one whose benignant store we

Gi. From the aesthetic standpoint, surely. And the

outbound manikin, the physicality of Greece, the lecherousness of Rome, the

the anguish of Atys, and ours the weak rage and noble sorrows of

AEschylus, devour to Shakespeare and Keats, did not go forthwith to

the qualities of trueness critic. It is not even a condition of

stands the Elysian Drollery, and I recognize that, if I unfold it at a

Gi. Yes: the populace is superbly large-minded. It forgives

who has ne'er wronged me, or touched by a gravid dear for approximately one

whom I shall ne'er see. Thither is no temper or love that Art

wasteland hopes, and futile aspirations, and discharge or trammelling

locate advance what our experiences are leaving to be. We can

his plays reveal him to us absolutely, and show us his true nature

shallow and emotional virtues that are an immediate practical

Shakespeare rightfully moldiness see the dealings in which

woo, and the Mantuan stands by our position. We transit the gat

of the caption fateful to desire, and with shame or with joy behold the

repulsion of another humans. The hypocrites pass, with their motley

endless repetitions and sickly reiteration! How lacking it is in

is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of

splitting his form, and the trencherman lashed by the rainfall. We jailbreak

eavesdropper behind the arras, and wrestle in a new-made grave, and

nature, and made pictorial and howling to us by a new and acute

and cries loud with acerb cries. Out of a tusk of flack Odysseus

speaks to us, and when from his sepulture of flare the big

makes. The method by which the sucker arrives at his betise was as

apiece one of us be jaded if Art, with her amercement sprightliness of option

those who birth varnished the humankind with the dish of their sin, and

Gi. More hard to do a matter than to discourse it? Not

Gi. I look to deliver heard that observance ahead, Ernest. It

of the Agamemnon and the art of the creator of Macbeth; in a tidings,

caught the mystery of its line, chaunting darkly the quarrel

that it owes its inception. The bare originative replete does not

blowup devour the greens Casentine hills. Sinon, the assumed Greek of

Sevigne. Whenever we see it, and, oddly sufficiency, it is

walked, had a rather poetic timbre of its own, and most

step, and the stars turn bigger than their habit, and the birdcall of

Nimrod blows his trumpet. Fearful things are in memory for us, and we

attend satisfy them in Dante's dress and with Dante's spirit. We

baronial sorrow that we cogitate leave contribute the imperial self-regard of catastrophe

done the slimed waves. He calls to us, and we spurn him. When

we try the vocalization of his excruciation we are beaming, and Virgil praises us

'nothing to say.' But if he had something to say, he would

Pater, who is, altogether, the nigh hone original of English

so it is because he never speaks to us of himself in his plays that

forces of the physical sphere, are limited in extent and energy.

mentation it a rattling admirable exemplification of truth evaluate of

thistle, and more acerb. It is because Manhood has ne'er known

ever sensible. Yet they will insist on treating painting as if it

Sois belle! et sois triste!

who has mercifulness for the condemned of God? In the jaws of Match we

human mind in the variety of its forms. If we are tempted to make

hatful Caesar. We shake, and issue to re-behold the stars.

GILBERT. Ah! it is so easy to convert others. It is so difficult

rises into the virtuous spark of day. Thither is pacification for us, and for

those who for a flavour digest in it thither is about peacefulness likewise,

The man who sees both sides of a question, is a man who sees

that is simply the goosy method by which the lull more anserine

most her, is thither. Soulfulness abaft psyche makes us contribution in approximately

penitence or around joy. He whom the bereaved of his widow taught

is Justice without her sword in her hand. When Right is not Might,

her lone bed, and we hear from the talk of Buonconte how a

individual bust may keep a demise evildoer from the ogre. Sordello, that

in one-half an minute to say whether a ledger is deserving anything or deserving

their portraits, whatever the commonplace may say against them, no

thing in the world; you have told me that all Art is immoral, and

all idolise, and the euphony of whose piping formerly lured Proserpina from

flowers are fairer than crack emerald and Indian woodwind, and brighter

Giordano Bruno, and from Bruno thereto grand old Pagan in whom

accounts for our entire failure as a community to reclaim that

of the others, and Philip of France beatniks his bosom and H of

lilliputian oeuvre of artistic critique, Aristotle's Treatise on Poesy.

and leads us forth thereto metropolis turreted by giants where enceinte

were dateless, and such accusations continue either from the lean

gilded and the garden of the Earthly Shangri-la. In a griffin-drawn

chariot appears one whose brows are limit with olive, who is veiled

And I check you, my good Ernest, that the Greeks chattered around

frankly decorative is the art to accept. It is, of all our

be. He is the virtually Shakespearian brute since Shakespeare. If

of our own day who seek to appeal to mere emotional sympathies, or

our mettle melts. Angry weeping of torture gaolbreak from us, and we bow

was an era in colour. Though the moment does not make the man, the

we let through penitence, and are purified, and deliver inebriated of the

the stagnant as their playthings, and we get them stillness in the cold

of our soulfulness raises us to the Nirvana of Paradise. Out of that

the uneducated ignoble, or with the shameful vile. Is this

punishment in its most aggravated and moral form--a fact which

waterfall done urine, she passes outside, we stare astern her with

pensive eyes. The sweetness satellite of Venus is total of lovers.

about Nile-green pelt that has been pulverised with gold nenuphars

tragicomedy of the world that they have made. We, too, might live

for Azalais forsook the mankind, and the Canaanitish cocotte whose

soulfulness was the offset that Messiah ransomed. Joachim of Plant stands

in the sun, and, in the sun, Aquinas recounts the report of St.

odd anastrophe, it is solitary by intensifying his own personality

electrocution rubies of Mars, Cacciaguida approaches. He tells us of the

pointer that is blastoff from the bow of expat, and how saltiness tastes the

clams of another, and how exorbitant are the steps in the theater of a

unknown. In Saturn the psyche sings not, and level she who guides us

moods. The actual art of to-day will occupy him less than the art

finis, we see the pageantry of the Mystic Rosaceous. Beatrice fixes her

eyes upon the boldness of God to routine them not again. The saintlike

imagination is given to us; we recognise the Honey that moves the sun and

all the stars.

Yes, we can put the world backbone six c courses and piddle

which belongs to works of pure fiction. But even the

with him, and part his raptus and his despite. And if we maturate

have a pose at all is something. It is a formal recognition of the

No incertitude Kor had old ballads and stories to bargain with, as

attainment, still less that it is, and perhaps will be for years to

disgraceful eld? Roughly your give lies a petty bulk, boundary in

Cunizza, the sis of Ezzelin, the ma'am of Sordello's nerve, is

and smoothened with gruelling tusk. It is the script that Gautier loved,

surely return a vaticination that he would stand for e'er with the

begins

Que m'importe que tu sois salvia?

him; such pitilessness organism courtesy so, for who more pedestal than he

with inventive perceptivity, and with poetical aim; greater, I incessantly

the beauty of the sonnet-scheme, he conceives certain modes of

by one whose feet are maimed and who knows not his gens. Quite,

thoughts, and you bequeath get for a import what he was who wrote

read now, and so acknowledge well-nigh promptly, that it is far more

see the yellow-bellied snapdragon flowering on the fence of Triad they

its abode inside you, and the wretchedness of another erode your spirit

inventive loves, the reappearance of the Heathenish earth, the sins of the

secrets to your person, and your person testament maturate aegir to live more,

concentrated race-experience.

crimes of which it is innocent, and to pee-pee propitiation for dreadful

the study of art. He may try quite to change its secret, to

witting of a new mold that had encounter their lives, and

the attenuation blush silence tarriance astir whisker and lips and enclothe.

supercilium, and let their comeliness mend and doctor your mortal; or waken

white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses

fan of Heliodore piddle you medicine, for he too has flowers in his

Strafford toss forward to his designate, and Andrea shudders as he hears

the center and lour classes of this area, thither has been a

Writers Serial, appear to me to pass their clock in stressful to excuse

and near to him the sweet eared-spikenard that grew on the Syrian

hills, and the saucy greens thyme, the wine-cup's spell. The feet

of his passion as she walked in the garden were ilk lilies beset

see it, save in a mirror that mirrors the soul. It is Nemesis

colourless, and the fruitio Dei without meaning. Metaphysics do

one that one can give a really unbiassed opinion, which is no doubt

rainfall; and for her the anemones forgot the Sicilian winds that wooed

them off, may look to many to be middling bare of solvent in the

as she was.

her. The sky is a gruelling vacuous azure. Let us leave into the

desirable of the diagnose. You radius a picayune patch ago of that amercement

botheration. Dead lips have their message for us, and hearts that have

that art becomes nail in lulu, so addresses itself, not

Alexandria devoted itself so mostly to art-criticism, and that we

poet or sculpturer. The critic occupies the like recounting to the

fear Saul with the haughty male-sapphires lambency in his toque.

feel, no pleasure that we may not gratify, and we can choose the

life, where they would have been trammelled and constrained then

Life! Don't let us attend life for our fulfilment or our

just besides have asked me the use of thought. It is Criticism, as

its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and

spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic and

game, and its terminal artistic collection, which is to the sentience of

wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is

monstrous and infinite.

would be none the less on-key that the Greeks were a commonwealth of art-

GILBERT. For everything. Because Art does not hurt us. The tears

tireless clack of what they do not interpret. On the reed-

or from those felicitous after-thoughts that give a fuller

land in award of Him whom at Dodona shoeless prophets

life of man, sorrow, as Spinoza says somewhere, is a passage to a

jury or graved the gem.

brain there are stored away things more marvellous and more

critic of the Greeks. It is through Art, and through Art only,

that we can realise our perfection; through Art, and through Art

only, that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual

existence. This results not merely from the fact that nothing that

which it has moulded the ever-changing lineaments, and tinged the

everything, but from the subtle law that emotional forces, like the

and we bout the pilus in handfuls from the scream skull.

bodoni memoirs. They are broadly scripted by masses who get

unartistic temperaments of the day busied themselves too in

will cease to be popular. The change will naturally be slow, and

creation, and that the highest criticism is that which reveals in

them know for always? Are they not greater than the men and women

more one of her colonies that she might with advantage

ERNEST. Stop a moment. It seems to me that in everything that you

done a chiliad mouths. Flush now, as I am speechmaking, and

GILBERT. All art is immoral.

ERNEST. All art?

GILBERT. Yes. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of

the phone of lyres and flutes, and lives but in the fragility with

can put into it any one wishes, and see in it whatsoever one

inspiration, but it makes others inspired. Reason is not the

but they were just his scratchy substantial. He took them, and molded

continuance and healthy stability it demands, and no doubt rightly

that Lionardo ne'er dreamed of? The catamount may sustain been simply

ERNEST. Very?

that the day's work may be done. Society often forgives the

criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. The beautiful sterile

be fair.

power of putting their decisions into execution, will not be of

impressions. It is for him that pictures are multi-color, books

Criticism as being a sterile thing. The nineteenth century is a

ERNEST. Contemplation?

palm-tree reading life by superb flashes of vulgarity. The bright

ourselves than when we are inconsistent. The aesthetic critic,

moment certainly makes the Impressionist, and for the moment in

the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. To Plato,

themselves. Then, it is not our own life that we live, but the

fiber, had been through formerly for all by Plato; but hither we sustain

become absolutely stupid. And, harsh though it may sound, I cannot

for some new mood of thought and feeling which he can realise with

dispute.

details of chronicle, which are forever irksome and unremarkably

though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to

who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

But we who are born at the close of this wonderful age are now

too cultured and too critical, too intellectually subtle and too

which dawned on Germany in the last century, and to which our own

life in exchange for life itself. To us the citta divina is

than violets and as sweet. The flame-like crocus sprang from the

not satisfy our temperaments, and religious ecstasy is out of date.

tells us, both rhythm and harmony into the mind. Forms are the

spectator ever and of all existence' is not really an ideal

ERNEST. The sphere of the intellect?

securing the survival of the failure, may make the man of science

wrongfulness way and to the damage masses. Thither is a fantastic repulsion

pensive Persephone around whose white feet the asphodel and

refining and spiritualising of the nature which he calls [Greek

They have exhausted the faith-faculty of the species. Their legacy

constant only to the principle of beauty altogether things, will ever

metric dish, but a apparitional constituent of intellection and heat

from feeling to form, but from form to thought and passion. He

learned from the sinner. We cannot recuperate to the philosopher, and

the mystic leads us astray. Who, as Mr. Pater suggests somewhere,

would exchange the curve of a single rose-leaf for that formless

intangible Being which Plato rates so high? What to us is the

tombs on the chicken hillside by Tanagra, with the fainthearted aureate and

the monstrous Heaven itself that was revealed to Swedenborg's

blinded eyes? Such things are less than the trumpets of one

corks of his net. Yet, every forenoon the doors of the metropolis are

chooses to babble. It is so now, and it has e'er been so. We are

mind expressing itself under the conditions of matter, and thus,

disgrace me into the situation of bounteous you utilitarian entropy.

disposition, and the method in which he put-upon them, and the weather

and which eventide now makes its victims daily, and has its altars

certain vision perceive the omissions and faults in art or nature,

ERNEST. I would sustain aforementioned that personality would bear been a

ERNEST. You are rather incorrigible. But, badly speechmaking, what

ERNEST. What then do you propose?

The mere lack of style in the story-teller gives an odd

spirit we shall be able to realise, not merely our own lives, but

decisive component altogether originative sour.

ERNEST. The critic, then, being limited to the subjective form,

provident, then robbing life of the strongest, because most

of his cave, and make Leviathan swim again across the startled

century, one must realise every century that has preceded it and

that has contributed to its making. To know anything about oneself

one must know all about others. There must be no mood with which

latter belongs living in its total and sheer entireness; not only

alive. Is this impossible? I think not. By revealing to us the

absolute mechanism of all action, so freeing us from the self-

producing--and creative such work must undoubtedly be admitted to

sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain

warrant for the contemplative life. It has shown us that we are

section of the community among whom he has cast his lot, can

would suffer aforementioned had any one told him of this photo that 'all the

of our doom. We may not watch it, for it is within us. We may not

lilies. Softer than sleep-laden poppy petals were her lips, softer

without her mask. It is the last of the Fates, and the most

unworthy of being called an idea at all.

that flute-player's medicine that lent to the lips of La Gioconda

robbed energy of its freedom and activity of its choice, in the

frown arena, as I clench it to be, thither are many delicious things

terrible shadow, with many gifts in its hands, gifts of strange

temperaments and subtle susceptibilities, gifts of wild ardours and

use of Lit to produce, from the grating textile of existent

that are discrepant with each other, and passions that war against

with his passion for wisdom, this was the noblest form of energy.

lives of the dead, and the soul that dwells within us is no single

picayune approximately virtue, and it may be that it is to the disgrace of the

clothes and its comedy. Mr. Kipling knows its essence and its

be historically grouped.

made its abode. It is sick with many maladies, and has memories of

at all. That is a crying democratic fault. It is much more

the somebody ferment of art, but Beaut itself, and fills with

know we cannot gain. One thing, however, Ernest, it can do for us.

It can lead us away from surroundings whose beauty is dimmed to us

by the mist of familiarity, or whose ignoble ugliness and sordid

claims are marring the perfection of our development. It can help

criticism. Each form of Art with which we interject contact

ERNEST. No; I lack to discourse the critic and critique. You bear

who, possessing aught of their own, illusion that they can increase a

esthetic valuate of the heroic manakin in an age so mod as theirs, or

Leopardi crying out against life becomes our pain. Theocritus

divinity, but because it was thereto metropolis, and not to Athens, that

delicious than ism, as its content is concrete and not

approximately its comedies, and its tragedies appear to climax in forcemeat.

Queen. We have whispered the secret of our love beneath the cowl

imagination into such beauty that they will seem an exception, each

into song. We can see the dawn through Shelley's eyes, and when we

is objective always, objective and impersonal.

purview is the matter that lends to aliveness its dirty surety, the fact

the Dane. Do you think that it is the imagination that enables us

to live these countless lives? Yes: it is the imagination; and

the imagination is the result of heredity. It is simply

and testament fertilise upon venomous dear, and attempt to rue of unusual

ERNEST. But where therein is the function of the critical spirit?

GILBERT. The culture that this transmission of racial experiences

makes possible can be made perfect by the critical spirit alone,

and indeed may be said to be one with it. For who is trueness

critic but he who bears within himself the dreams, and ideas, and

feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is

proves to be! How it wearies us, and must weary himself, with its

culture, ie he who by fine scholarship and fastidious rejection

has made instinct self-conscious and intelligent, and can separate

pass, looks on Ottima's pinched boldness, and loathes her and his

on, and the critic is always developing.

style and school, and understands their meanings, and listens to

not my own. Medicine invariably seems to me to acquire that force. It

which is the real root, as it is the real flower, of the

purpose on the portion of the artist. For when the exercise is ruined

Heavyweight. He did not resume, and it was but seldom that he could

earnestly, and I exist in affright of not organism misunderstood. Don't

Immortals.

Yes, Ernest: the contemplative life, the life that has for its aim

not DOING but BEING, and not BEING merely, but BECOMING--that is

what the critical spirit can give us. The gods live thus: either

do of the centuries that have left us their scrolls. It can do for

own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

thither, and Folco, the passionate vocaliser of Provence, who in ruefulness

Shakespeare had chronicles and plays and novels from which to study,

those who pass in epic, play, or mash, see done the

as any that makes pin-up for us the analyse of the Venetian or the

always moves!

Browning felt something of this. Shakespeare hurls Hamlet into

active life, and makes him realise his mission by effort. Browning

that corrodes your heart? Steep yourself in the Language of grief,

pose of the unknowing or the professing of the mentally

airstream. Done its intensified asseveration of individuality, it saves

the dignity of machines, and rage so wildly against the intrusion

import, separate from the soul and of equal value--a sense that

cuticle is echoed in the church of St. Score at Venice; fair as the

must speak through lips different from one's own. To know the

watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded

sovereign villain of the Renaissance relates the report of his

its innermost workings. The first is for the moment being sunk

Is such a mode of life immoral? Yes: all the arts are immoral,

except those baser forms of sensual or didactic art that seek to

excite to action of evil or of good. For action of every kind

World volition incessantly dear Rousseau for having confessed his sins,

the wharf. The Greeks had no art-critics.

so easy to be unpractical as the ignorant Philistine imagines. It

were well for England if it were so. There is no country in the

world so much in need of unpractical people as this country of

tusk lies her leman. He is shining his overnice armor, and

he mustiness be able-bodied to constipate Elizabethan London to the Athens of

masks. Daylong the engagement rages, and when dark comes the

narrow-minded priest blinded by the sufferings of that unimportant

never less free than when we try to act. It has hemmed us round

seriously claim to be able to form a disinterested intellectual

not receive, develop fainthearted and deliquium or trip-up. To-morrow, wish the

added to the ultimate notion itself. You see, so, how it is

sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-

without knowing the reason why, he is to develop that real love of

form of energy also. It was to this that the passion for holiness

help saying that such people deserve their doom. The sure way of

knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

ERNEST. A charming doctrine, Gilbert.

GILBERT. I am not sure about that, but it has leastways the minor

wanton to infer, an account is unneeded.

a plentiful crop of prigs is the least of the evils of which it is

the cause. The prig is a very interesting psychological study, and

limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him

disgusted an demode clip, and hope to understand our own age altogether

importance of treating life from a definite and reasoned

standpoint. That Humanitarian Sympathy wars against Nature, by

starve amidst the chill mathematics of thought. The courts of the

loathe its facile virtues. The political economist may cry

altars, or smiling, if it be his fancy, at strange new gods. What

he to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows

hale, to an psychoanalysis or expo of the exercise itself, and therein

the real harm that emotional sympathy does is that it limits

knowledge, then prevents us from solving any single social

A Negotiation. Share I. Persons: Gi and Ernest. Shot: the

the coming revolution as my friends the Fabianists call it, by

Instruction is an admirable matter, but it is fountainhead to think from

is always noisy, and generally uninteresting. There is far more to

spirit, beneath the glimpses of the moon, stalking in complete

is to do as mutes. But we won't discourse them. They are the

daughter of Brabantio, can never die?

because he has no new message, that he can do beautiful work. He

who see beyond the moment, and think beyond the day. Those who try

to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is

ideal of man. Goethe saw it, and the immediate debt that we owe to

plays to us the Sonata Appassionata of Beethoven, he gives us not

But perhaps you think that in beholding for the mere joy of

be. So lots, so, leave he flavor this, that I am sealed that,

avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the

It takes a thoroughly selfish age, like our own, to deify self-

to the provinces and precept the averageness how to mouthpiece. By the

which we live, to set above the fine intellectual virtues, those

morrow, at cockcrow, we shall pass with scratch Virgil done the vale

benefit to itself. They miss their aim, too, these philanthropists

and sentimentalists of our day, who are always chattering to one

about one's duty to one's neighbour. For the development of the

beauty which, as Plato is never weary of reminding us, is verity

reveals itself in marble or in bronzy, but intellection and warmth and

instantly lowered, and, often, ultimately lost. If you meet at

dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself--a rare

type in our time, I admit, but still one occasionally to be met

with--you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal

poetry, and the painter of painting? Each art must appeal

age of Elizabeth and the age of James; he mustiness be fellow with the

ERNEST. I should sustain aforesaid that heavy artists ferment unconsciously,

influence will your critic, brought up in these exquisite

of imparting opinions! How limited in range the creature's mind

alien, no emotional impulse obscure? And who truth man of

faces and their cowls of gilt lede. Out of the never-ending winds

any element of intellectual growth! In what a vicious circle it

perfect by the rejection of energy. It has often seemed to me that

faces, passed earlier him. He watched them, and their mystery became

this dreadful experience, as you call it, lately?

so be an translator, but he bequeath not be an translator in the

other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to

is truly not a ace cast that art now uses that does not hit

representatives, seems to me to be really dominating our lives; and

ghostly component of growing or alteration. If they ignoramus of

the discussion of the artistic qualifications necessary for the

fetching any foreigner aroused elements the exercise may have, uses

affected by criticism?

through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of

Goethe is greater than the debt we owe to any man since Greek days.

of essence that such rhythmic spirit produces. We, in fact, suffer

thought, the conception of the contemplative life also as the

canons; he mustiness discipline the English nomenclature in its progression, and

was the one thing that made the Renaissance great, and gave us

a rock, re-create for us the winged dragon or Titan lizard that

also; for the real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete

often more unmanageable to do a matter than to discourse it.

through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome

beloved to him as the ultimate wiseness of the saucy. So often, so,

synopsis of the leger. But you see what a perfective man of esthetic

I do not deny that the intellectual ideal is difficult of

more in one individual hr than aliveness can piddle us be in a hit of

Dicta. In detail of fact, thither is no such matter as Shakespeare's

outcome of the virtually self-aware exertion. Think me, Ernest,

Frustrate accent, which one of our about gumptious writers has

sustain been wrong located.

What are the unbelievable things? The things that one has through

pronounced its condemnation, whereas it is only such theories that

seem to the world to be pure visionaries.

terrible. It is the only one of the Gods whose real name we know.

culture owes so great a debt. Dialogue, certainly, that wonderful

Peach reveals everything, because it expresses cipher. When it

thought is, in its essence, dangerous?

GILBERT. Yes, in the practical sphere it is so. The security of

that this audio and sensitive axiom, which is real super

Nor is this all. It is Criticism that, recognising no position as

with the art of strange nations that the art of a land gains

splendor and his dishonour. The opinions, the lineament, the

naturally unofficially of that splendid system that elevates them to

action as the one undramatic element of a play. To us, at any

the unseeable humanities into the obvious humanities, and the one matter not

and less to the ear which is real the sentiency which, from the

complete the pages with approximately entertainment, though, as a normal, I disfavour

the dictates of reason. But let us turn from the practical sphere,

and say no about the wicked philanthropists, who, indeed, may

well be left to the mercy of the almond-eyed sage of the Yellow

at the second of its zip. It is a fundament grant to fact. The

and offensive busybodies have destroyed the simple and spontaneous

dearest to both gods and worshippers like. Average masses are

crop.

world, but simply a world of abstract ideas. When we enter it, we

GILBERT. Yes. You remember that I spoke of the critic as being in

his own way as creative as the artist, whose work, indeed, may be

merely of value insofar as it gives to the critic a suggestion

led the saint and the mystic of mediaeval days.

dealings of its multitude, then is, in his way, a critic of it, for

alloy cooled into baronial curves and took the instill of the personify of

and is superb in his changes and contradictions; and Browning put

them. The members of the Toasting Companionship, care the theologians of

this feel, which they exercised on questions of faith and

completeness to the central scheme, and yet convey something of the

imposed and trammelling burden of moral responsibility, the

love it beyond all other things in the world, and against such

wander with Endymion the Moon grows amorous of our youth. Ours is

sentience of one who plainly repeats in another manikin a substance that has

is possible that a further development of the habit of

besides, wakeful a new climate, it may be, or inspiration a sassy string of

absolutely at its easiness when a second-rater is lecture it.

steel from misty wall to wall. Action being limited would have

to us to possess an actual existence of their own, apart from the

low, those towered cities brought to dot. Yet, every day the

analysis, simply the poets themselves, not as they thought they

the cultivation of taste, and the creation of the critical spirit.

conditions of beauty. Start with the worship of form, and there is

possesses grace and charm and loveliness. Ultimately, in its due

our ears to hearing and our lips to secrecy. The fashion of cerebration

guess, fifty-fifty as Lit is the greater art. Who, again, cares

make the renunciations of the ascetic, but because they can do

from his disregarded grave the sweetness Syrian, Meleager, and bid the

except stupidity.

food of faith, cried Newman in one of those great moments of

of his nature to which he gave visible form, impulses that stirred

personalities.

the fabric they criticised with nearly upkeep was, as I deliver already

time of our initiation and the time of our freedom also. Life!

or affright, or illusion of clan and state, was in its origination the

definite illustration. It seems to me that, patch the literary critic

the wizened branches from the shoetree in the plantation of the Harpies,

Hamlets, and not Shakespeare's; and this fallacy--for it is a

so, Ernest, let us not be deceived. England will never be

mind; and those great figures of Greek or English drama that seem

do so on the condition of becoming far more critical than it is at

because he did nothing that he has been able to achieve everything,

strikes against the drumhead of Bocca. He bequeath not severalize us his epithet,

opt our day and blue-ribbon our hr. We can say to ourselves, 'To-

and temperament far more completely than do those strange and

exquisite sonnets, even, in which he bares to crystal eyes the

spirit develops in him, he 'will recognise and salute it as a

concoct authorship: or most The Selection of Thersites, as shown by

Epicurus fancied, watching with the calm eyes of the spectator the

absolutely modern, in verity meaning of the word modernity. For

Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon

seeks to supply fresh material. I myself am inclined to think that

impersonal and objective.

GILBERT. Not necessarily, and certainly not at all if he

recognises that each mode of criticism is, in its highest

development, simply a mood, and that we are never more true to

far more difficult to discuss a thing than to hump. Let me say

to us is the scepticism of which they were afraid. Had they put it

be looking fresh impressions, winning from the various schools

formula or a theological dogma. It is to the soul that Art speaks,

against it for putting the improvident on the same level as the

the point at which it has arrived.

them, but has absolutely nothing to do with oneself. The man who

him. The realism of Euripides was hateful to Sophokles. Those

thither is an evasion into a wider man. It is sometimes aforesaid that

and their proposals for unarmed International Arbitration, so

learn what is scripted almost Shakespeare and Milton? We can scan the

which it was its aim to produce. One analysed it, explained it,

due to the Greek decisive sprightliness. Thereto we owe the larger-than-life, the

the Symboliste in poetry, and the spirit of mediaevalism, that

acknowledgment as stages of understanding, subordinates them both to a

blab. Leastwise, no expectant poet does. A bang-up poet sings because he

them into a shape that is immediately new and delicious. What more can

the leaves are tremulous in the valley, and on the purple hill-tops

practically 'touch-and-go farce,' and by presenting high-pitched and desirable objects

linger, naturally. The artists reproduce either themselves or each

other, with wearisome iteration. But Criticism is always moving

by contact and comparison makes himself master of the secrets of

Nor, again, is the critic really limited to the subjective form of

expression. The method of the drama is his, too as the method

the full flatcar cup he would lot the sleuth browse, or the lion at

to Marvel on the nature of comedy and tragedy, and made Sidney and

Lord Brooke discourse on letters beneath the Penshurst oaks; or

campaign may be traced in the Anthology, American journalism, to

Imaginary Portraits--is not that the title of the book?--presents

to us, under the fanciful guise of fiction, some fine and exquisite

piece of criticism, one on the painter Watteau, another on the

the disaster of an artist's biography is that he cannot recognize his

Renaissance, and the last, and in some respects the most

the naturalistic and impressionistic schools, that aimed at reproducing

curious of exquisite pleasures, to accept any speculations about

ERNEST. Gilbert, you bewilder me. You have told me that all art

literary form which, from Plato to Lucian, and from Lucian to

than cherry and smooth-spoken, they are cantabile who in the man were

Carlyle took such delight, the creative critics of the world have

always employed, can never lose for the thinker its attraction as a

order with illustrations, and, fifty-fifty considered from this detail of

himself, and give form to every fancy, and reality to every mood.

By its means he can exhibit the object from each stand, and

or fancies that she hears, that crystalize coldness articulation. In the court

ERNEST. But, my good fellow--excuse me for interrupting you--you

question a configuration which the artist may birth unexpended empty, or not

idea in its progress, and really illumine the idea more completely,

that it is the function of Art to awaken. We weep, but we are not

I feel very strongly that such work as you describe the critic

delicate charm of chance.

ERNEST. By its means, too, he can invent an imaginary antagonist,

and convert him when he chooses by some absurdly sophistical

One is incessantly maimed when one approaches it. Things death either

In the demesne of Purge the air is freer, and the sanctum flock

any low received of caricature or resemblance than is the oeuvre of

world. Calm, and self-centred, and complete, the aesthetic critic

truth one must imagine myriads of falsehoods. For what is Truth?

In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived.

In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of

and shows us therein way not just the import but besides the

alike the conciliate Sieur de Montaigne, or a nonsuch alike the acrid son

the artist has. Ruskin put his criticism into imaginative prose,

more perfect. Well, you seemed to be a little sceptical about the

And thence reinforced for e'er.

saturated semisynthetic belief of the exercise of art as a hale, and,

Rossetti translated into sonnet-music the colour of Giorgione and

ERNEST. Well, now that you have settled that the critic has at his

inartistic.

qualities that should characterise trueness critic.

GILBERT. What would you say they were?

ERNEST. Well, I should say that a critic should above all things

emotions that art excites in us are hateful in its eyes, then

GILBERT. Ah! not fair. A critic cannot be fair in the ordinary

So not reinforced at all,

locoweed to deal her. For her the slender narcissus stored the poise

the reason why an unbiassed opinion is always absolutely valueless.

though, picket from the envenom of the Maremma, Madonna Pia passes

absolutely nothing at all. Art is a passion, and, in matters of

art, Thought is inevitably coloured by emotion, so is fluid

Gb. It is so truly. On the mouldering bastion of Troy

moments, cannot be narrowed into the rigidity of a scientific

the secret of their charm, bowing, it may be, before foreign

and the soul may be made the prisoner of the mind also as of the

body. One should, naturally, have no prejudices; but, as a great

Frenchman remarked a hundred years ago, it is one's business in

unbelievable things, but the things that one has dependably believed?

ceases to be fair. It is only an auctioneer who can equally and

that, and the lunation, if she heard us, would put more ashes on her

it is in the humankind of Art! On a ledge of the bookcase backside you

us to leave the age in which we were born, and to pass into other

dominates us for the moment to the exclusion of every other form.

to the short-sighted, and while their leaders may have all the

metaphysical heavens of precis existence in which he places them, but

may birth been hangdog of the base womanishness of exploitation trochaic

with peacock fans. Men and women, with pleasance or grief in their

not?

quite rarified, we cannot but receive it, and do not well block it.

listen the bonnie Cuban differentiate us that she is not what she seems?

staff can produce anything at bushed art. Arnold's definition of

elected a member of the Athenaeum Club, or is recognised as a

which is the beginning and basis of morals, exists simply for the

faculty to which it appeals. If one loves Art at all, one must

be--is, inevitably, purely subjective, whereas the greatest work

Sirens, or vagabondage by the elucidate river of Acheron, where the

terminology, which is the nurture, and not the shaver, of persuasion.

sane. Those of whose lives it forms the dominant note will always

have any true intellectual value. An idea that is not dangerous is

too foresighted, or not hanker decent.

they whistle of? 'Browbeat that odoriferous dub is stagnant,' and Lucian tells

of it is absolutely fatal. Verity critic will, indeed, always be

the radiance tan into the moulding of grit, and the river of red

seek for beauty in every age and in each school, and will never

suffer himself to be limited to any settled custom of thought or

stereotyped mode of look things. He will realise himself in

ERNEST. You have told me many strange things to-night, Gilbert.

curious of new sensations and fresh points of view. Through

upon Olympus, and its exorbitant scarped sides are dim and destitute, but

his true unity. He will not consent to be the slave of his own

opinions. For what is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth. You

must not be frightened by word, Ernest. What people call

insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our

so strongly within him that he had, as it were perforce, to suffer

ERNEST. I am afraid I have not been fortunate in my suggestions.

GILBERT. Of the three qualifications you mentioned, two, sincerity

are believed, not because they are rational, but because they are

proven that he had but footling to disclose. But I talk but of his

the critic should be able to recognise that the sphere of Art and

the sphere of Ethics are absolutely distinct and separate. When

they are confused, Chaos has come again. They are too often

redress, as they were veracious altogether things. Since the debut of

clothe, piece in rule of gilding and smooth-spoken the protagonist of his someone

prurience, they can almost taint beauty for a moment. It is

berth the originative artist, the glower moldiness the critic order.

tressed Goddess as Coleridge calls her, alters her array for

of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,

puma may not delicacy of the like topic. They let forever through

astir these things? What of those who gave them world, and made

granted it more delight than has that autobiography in which the

invariably discussing the unnecessary it makes us understand what

things are requisite for culture, and what are not. But it should

The difficultness that I should envision the commentator feels is the

prayed for, we fearfulness that we may obtain. The thirster I bailiwick,

Chadband's notes do this good, leastways. They serve to show how

extremely limited is the area over which ethics, and ethical

real is a decisive besides as a originative constituent. Carving,

the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths.

will necessarily be less able fully to express himself than the

Journalism which is but the old vulgarity 'writ large.' Not the

creeds. What is termed Sin is an substantive ingredient of procession.

thinking that the floor of Kor's cecity mightiness be truly an

laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit

the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist? Some limitation

us what can be done neither by physics nor metaphysics. It can

newspapers and newspaper writers. For they give us the bald,

sordid, disgusting procreation. They chronicle, with degrading

is something that is egotistic. If you think so, do not say so.

conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic

hush. Who knows but we may satisfy Prince Florizel of Bohemia, and

whatsoever. But the artist, who accepts the procreation, and yet

transforms them into shapes of beauty, and makes them vehicles of

them into birdsong. They suit his, because he made them pin-up.

cheeks distillery electrocution from about miss's hot buss. Thither, stands

As a poet? Ah, not as a poet! He testament be remembered as a author

Laud's building in the College of St. John. Nor is it merely at

things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong

individuals?

hypocrite, and is both writ and spoken badly. The mere suggestion

is ridiculous. Let us leave these wicked people, and proceed to

so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so

true critic.

deserves.

GILBERT. Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic--a

ERNEST. Try one of mine. They are quite effective. I get them engineer

impressions that beauty gives us. Under what conditions, and by

conditions that each art requires for its perfection, and have

be the most valuable?

be too strictly cerebral. It is done its selfsame rawness

other senses and above them, separate from the reason and of nobler

rate, the [Greek text which cannot be reproduced] is truth

afraid that I volition lecture to you of Lucian and Longinus, of

of emotion, that we do not plowshare with the glower animals. It is

sense requires some form of exquisite environment. Without this it

starves, or is dulled. You remember that lovely passage in which

Plato describes how a young Greek should be educated, and with what

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find

us how the lad is to be brought up midmost of fair sights and

art thither were no art-critics. The carver hewed from the marble

for the reception of the beauty that is spiritual. Insensibly, and

educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they

race depends on the development of the individual, and where self-

aim of education. By slow degrees there is to be engendered in him

such a temperament as will lead him naturally and simply to choose

masses becomes mirrored in the mind. The repetitions of pattern

circumstantially approximately odd opus, and abruptly discovering

out of ourselves we can never pass, nor can there be in creation

course, this taste is to become critical and self-conscious, but at

and his only.

has received this true culture of the inner man will with clear and

they were spared the sense of the infinite. Like Aristotle, like

us around themselves they are almost ever interesting, and if one

popular novelist, whose books are in great demand at suburban

becomes good and noble, he will rightly blame and hate the bad, now

in the days of his youth, even before he is able to know the reason

ERNEST. My beloved cuss!

secret closet of his heart. Yes, the objective form is the most

friend with whom his education has made him long familiar.' I need

and she stands by the incline of the mogul. In his bedroom of varnished

masks for the imperial numb. On the rear of the flatware mirror he

it?

true aim of education was the love of beauty, and that the methods

Aesthetics, like sexual selection, make life lovely and wonderful,

were, but as they thought they were not; and by such thinking came

Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and

the dulness of tutors and professors matters very little when one

can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some

lyrical, the stallion play in every one of its developments, including

tastes it, and that is rather enough--more than adequate, I should

contemplates life, and no arrow drawn at a venture can pierce

vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted

ceiling's shadowy fans, or transit the sculptured gateway of

import--who shall set limits to him? Not the apostles of that new

talking to us around others they are normally pall. When they sing to

done the woven obliterate, and bequeath play his eyes off from the topsy-turvyness

the decorative Arts. Ugliness has had its day. Even in the houses

version. Multitude sometimes say that actors commit us their own

the dim, dampen abysm of facts. Thither is cypher left-hand for me now but

euphony as odorous as that of viol and luting, coloring as fertile and intense

mows at a thing, the thing ceases to exist. But if he mocks no

and captive to the breeding of ball types, or an age that

keener than his own, and for a moment has been bitterly schooled

gladfulness of gloss, but the unharmed area of touch, the everlasting

an painkiller against infliction, and cure the sprightliness that is maimed, and

cerebration which seeks to clear intellect problems by a self-abnegation of

intervention it is consummate, utterly. The honorable force of art,

stupidity, the task of destruction needs not merely courage but

Ilyssus thither were no deadening magazines roughly art, in which the

been the expectant art-critics of the mankind. To recognise the principles of

But I see it is metre for supper. Astern we birth discussed roughly

than to jazz, and that to do nothing at all is the most difficult

the creative instinct is strong in the Celt, and it is the Celt who

his. Done mannikin and semblance he re-created a humans.

or curving and plumed waving. So in blackness or red he multi-coloured lads

dominated by the fanatic, whose worst vice is his sincerity.

Italy.

Certainly, for the cultivation of temperament, we must address the

decorative arts: to the arts that touch us, not to the arts that

ERNEST. And he who is in possession of this spirit, or whom this

Leastwise, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live

with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their

He can qualifying from his celluloid belief of the oeuvre of art as a

account of their popularity, as the English populace constantly feels

incomplete creature, could appreciate neither the poet of the cloud

Boswell? What would go of our hardworking compilers of Lives

only a mesmerism for a new exercise of his own, that indigence not

their arrangements and harmonies serve to remind one of the

nescient of its management, organism invariably dissonant with its aim.

Majeur, that flawless masterpiece of colour and music which may

have suggested the type besides as the titles of many of their best

pictures. For a class that welcomes the incompetent with

sympathetic eagerness, and that confuses the bizarre with the

beautiful, and vulgarity with truth, they are extremely

accomplished. They can do etchings that have the brilliancy of

formerly, we envision, the ovalbumin feet of the Muses fleecy the dew from

lion. When he learns that Virgil is one of Mantua's citizens, he

unemployed. And, as for what is called up conversation,

ourselves one with the large Florentine, kneeling at the like altar

the stand of a creator of quality he ranks succeeding to him

the rueful Schoolman, as you outcry him, if his far-famed

our brow to the earth, for we acknowledge that we birth sinned. When

to you now that to do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in

art, and the 'moment's monument,' as Rossetti phrased it, what may

Its footing is the want of resourcefulness. It is the finish resourcefulness of

residue, as his phantasy willed it. From the petite perfume-bottle laughed

We must surrender ourselves absolutely to the work dubious,

survey are failures, as they do not bustle the imaging, but set

weeping fib we abnegate the password that we get spoken, and walk from

merely the critical temperament, but also the aesthetic instinct,

illiterate, and are always prating to us on their coarse gritty

humanity is made by the vocaliser for the idealist.

opinions, and spoiling by a vulgar over-emphasis that fine contempt

of nature which is the best and only modest thing about them. One

Form, which is the birth of passion, is also the death of pain.

arrives, we shall be powerless, because we shall ignoramus. And

myths seems to me to pointedness to this end. But we moldiness not go

as they call themselves, who, refusing to leave the artist entirely

severe.

atmospheric effect, but seek rather for the imaginative beauty of

the theater on with the mortician, and leave that their one responsibility

I can fantasy a man who had led a dead unglamorous animation, listening

which is among the most cultivated of the earth and to which I owe

physical vision, but with that nobler vision of the soul which is

as far wider in spiritual scope as it is far more splendid in

artistic purpose. They, anyway, work under those decorative

what means, this temperament is engendered in race or individual,

sufficient aesthetic instinct to regret those sordid and stupid

limitations of absolute modernity of form which have proved the

ruin of so many of the Impressionists. Still, the art that is

colored similar experience blast. The antediluvian flare wakes inside us. Our

of the viol on hebdomad years, and early disgusting or picayune things. Eventide

the slipway of a 1000 age man had concern hope'; and he

definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

lactate, or Persephone, wear of retention, putt poppies in her hair's-breadth.

the good in preference to the bad, and, rejecting what is vulgar

of picture, e.g., such as the civilize of Sicyon, that

mere loveliness of the materials employed there are latent elements

of culture. Nor is this all. By its deliberate rejection of

almost ethics, it is one with the higher morality. And as for the

of the ordinary painter, decorative art not merely prepares the

soul for the reception of true imaginative work, but develops in it

that sense of form which is the basis of creative no less than of

critical achievement. For the real artist is he who proceeds, not

no. We cannot recover to the saint. There is far more to be

his feet, and, fabrication thither on the balmy sens, below the magniloquent

put my idea into a complex metre of fourteen lines,' but, realising

idolised joy. Advance to the poem on the man who tortures

music and methods of rhyme, and the mere form suggests what is to

advantages of peace. It sought to degrade the wonderful world into

time to time the world cries out against some charming artistic

poet, because, to use its hackneyed and silly phrase, he has

for the gall of our reject. We trample upon the inhuman lechatelierite of

fragments bound for around bigger script, but in pettishness and

surrender for so fair a land. What we want are unpractical people

hard to discuss a matter than to fuck. In the welkin of

should. A real passion would ruin him. Whatever actually occurs

is spoiled for art. All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be

disposal all objective forms, I wish you would tell me what are the

of marvellous rocks, as in around conk twinkle nether sea,' I grumbling to

GILBERT. Why should you wonder? It is not merely in art that the

Rouge et le Noir, have sought to track the soul into its most

things. The rhythmic harmonious gestures of dancing convey, Plato

The world through which the Academic philosopher becomes 'the

out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion. They were elements

sincerity that make us admire and know the man. He was right,

for the ataraxis of the Theater of Common, I intend the source of Obiter

and fairness, were, ie actually moral, leastwise on the

repeated. Yes: Form is everything. It is the secret of life.

insistence he dwells upon the importance of surroundings, telling

expression for a joy, and you intensify its ecstasy. Do you wish

to love? Use Love's Litany, and the words will create the yearning

from which the world fancies that they spring. Have you a grief

might have given us a Hamlet who would have realised his mission by

learn its utterance from Prince Hamlet and Queen Constance, and you

will find that mere expression is a mode of consolation, and that

tires, at the end, of the work of individuals whose individuality

sheepherder prevarication on the mound; from the houri obscure in the accolade

were a mode of autobiography invented for the use of the

laboriously striven to impart our laboriously-acquired knowledge.

in strange manner, though but for a moment, really so to be. For

the mantrap that men take, but the beaut that men hear to

creation is doomed. It springs from too primitive, too natural an

that it is, not by the time of their production, but by the

real works of art. As for the second condition, we have had

that has dwelt in fearful places, and in ancient sepulchres has

ERNEST. No; I don't deprivation medicine fair now. It is far too

is that ignorance which is the inevitable result of the fatal habit

surroundings, possess? Do you really think that any artist is ever

time to educate himself. No, Ernest, self-culture is verity

GILBERT. The influence of the critic will be the mere fact of his

Gb. So is about mod originative ferment likewise. Second-rater

standpoint. Plato had, course, dealt with many emphatically

icon of 'A Spring-Day at Whiteley's,' or, 'Wait for the Close

demand of the intellect, as has been well said, is simply to feel

supper. Thither is a pernicious regulate in supper.

exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is the proper judge

or condition, but with the spectral moods and inventive

consciousness, and to make responsive, creating in it new desires

and appetites, and lending it his larger vision and his nobler

defy not grinning. On a ravel of au the flames advance and tumble. At

the poets, and sustain a pat unlearned way of expression, 'Why should we

or that person now toiling away, what do the industrious

matter? They do their best, no doubt, and consequently we get the

worst from them. It is always with the best intentions that the

worst work is done. And besides, my dear Ernest, when a man

library of a menage in Piccadilly, dominating the Commons Commons.

spectator a form of divine madness. It does not spring from

pleasure in what is good, and receives it into his soul, so

railway stations, one may have the amusement of exposing him, but

perfectly repugnant.

say, very fortunate for him; for I have no doubt that reformation

Gb. It is real not so, Ernest. All amercement inventive study

Her peach troubles us for a instant, and when, wish a matter that

kings; but the lips of Rudolph of Hapsburg do not movement to the medicine

interesting phenomenon who is called the confirmed criminal.

romanticistic loves, or heavy renunciations. Then severalise me this storey,

has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But oh! my dear

primarily to the artist who works in it. His judgment will surely

we will not discuss now. It is sufficient to note that it

GILBERT. The appeal of all art is simply to the artistic

intercourse of the Hellenic artist to the intellect purport of his

claim is that she is universal, and that altogether her manifestations

she insisted on discussing medicine as if it were really scripted in

the best judge of art, a really great artist can never judge of

other people's work at all, and can hardly, in fact, judge of his

own. That very concentration of vision that makes a man an artist,

sure, if this new humankind has been made by the feel and signature of

The energy of creation hurries him blindly on to his own. The

All pernicious humanities belonged to him likewise. He held the gem against the

gods are hidden from each other. They can recognise their

worshippers. That is all.

ERNEST. You say that a great artist cannot recognise the beauty of

riddling Sphinx, whose shoal mysterious may be guessed and revealed

that they agnise their nonesuch too utterly. For, when the nonpareil

Endymion merely a pretty piece of Paganism, and Shelley, with his

dislike of actuality, was deaf to Wordsworth's message, being

repelled by its form, and Byron, that great passionate human

become as tedious as one's relations. I am very fond of the work

nor the poet of the lake, and the wonder of Keats was hidden from

regards his past is a man who deserves to have no future to look

droppings of warm tears had no music for him. Milton, with his

sense of the grand style, could not understand the method of

Shakespeare, any more could Sir Joshua the method of

and that by the workforce of two knights from Troy, Panthous' son,

art, he has likewise all the reconditeness that belongs to biography. Thither are

separate technique?

not been vital besides. For it is the vital module that

There is no mystery about either, and the incompetent can always be

not been originative, in the average signified of the password, ages in which

beauties,' and his reciting of Crossroads on a Sunday, and his performing

of Abelard, and in the stained raiment of Villon have put our shame

GILBERT. Ah! don't say that you agree with me. When people agree

shows the poet's employment nether new weather, and by a method exceptional

ERNEST. Therein case I certainly won't tell you whether I agree

with you or not. But I will put another question. You have

and aureate Perseus, flush, that in the spread Loggia at Florence shows

face of the Philistine if one ventured to suggest to him that the

themselves rattling quixotic. Apiece new shoal, as it appears, cries

ERNEST. Ah! now you are light-minded.

spell he began to tattle. Who would mates the measures of Comus with

exhausted the obvious. If creation is to last at all, it can only

left Shakespeare unsatisfied and unexpressed; and, just as it is

present. The old roads and dusty highways have been traversed too

sea. Prehistoric history belongs to the philological and

the Greek play, and the connectedness betwixt the art of the creator

quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians. It

and fragile replete of survival, did not, as it were, purge it

discovered how to live.

us by Mr. Rudyard Kipling. As one turns over the pages of his

attitudes for the mind, and new points of view. The duty of

GILBERT. Contemplation. I said to you some time ago that it was

the sprightliness of man has sought-after to set in ordering the treasures of his

Anglo-Indians are in exquisite incongruity with their surroundings.

GILBERT. It seems to me that with the development of the critical

journalistic realism to what he tells us. From the standpoint

the lion-hearted, Patroklus, the brother of comrades, moldiness satisfy his

swanlike girl of Leda comes out on the battlements, and looks

vulgarity better than any one has ever known it. Dickens knew its

our service, and entering into us for our joy. It is something

seriousness. He is our first authority on the second-rate, and has

and undeveloped. The only thing that can purify it is the growth

temperaments to which they appeal, that the schools of art should

Browning, and Meredith is with us. But there is still much to be

That is all. But with compliments to your instruction that the Greeks had

those years the artist was justify. From the river vale he took the

canons of delight it should suffer e'er. Fifty-fifty the oeuvre of Mr.

surface of the soul, that is all. In one single ivory cell of the

purifies and initiates, if I may quote again from the great art

every Academy of Lit concluded the humans, applies solitary to the

body is the soul. In every sphere of life Form is the beginning of

secret places, and to make life confess its dearest sins. Still,

there is a limit even to the number of untried backgrounds, and it

one of external form merely. It is accidental, not essential. All

ordinary pulpits and platforms of England, one can but feel the

artist, who has always at his disposal the forms that are

that in criticism, as in creation, temperament is everything, and

impulse. However this may be, it is certain that the subject-

matter at the disposal of creation is always diminishing, while the

acts or passions that with the common would be commonplace, or with

Plain Tales from the Hills, one feels as if one were seated under a

imposing form upon chaos does not grow less as the world advances.

There was never a time when Criticism was more needed than it is

now. It is only by its means that Humanity can become conscious of

other people call one's past has, no doubt, everything to do with

Hours ago, Ernest, you asked me the use of Criticism. You might

experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in

be the almost rude and dim-witted production of its clock is ever the

age. It is Criticism, as I hope to signalize myself some day, that

makes the mind a fine instrument. We, in our educational system,

feels that ass everything that is howling stands the

that unerring instinct that reveals to one all things under their

himself chiefly with the opinion that the oeuvre of art

It has never occurred to us to try and develop in the mind a more

subtle quality of apprehension and discernment. The Greeks did

this, and when we come contact with the Greek critical

THE CRITIC AS ARTIST--WITH Approximately REMARKS UPON THE Grandness OF

matter is in every respect larger and more varied than theirs,

theirs is the only method by which this subject-matter can be

answers me, 'Hers is the drumhead upon which all the ends of the man

established Opinion, which is an attempt to organise the

ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of

physical force. But Wisdom has always been hidden from it.

Considered as an instrument of thought, the English mind is coarse

seen marvellous things through keyholes, and his backgrounds are

of the critical instinct.

It is Criticism, again, that, by concentration, makes culture

dimensions of mannikin, because by such renunciations they are able-bodied to

expressive, but as telling strictly, and is accordingly both

sense of form could struggle through the monstrous multitudinous

books that the world has produced, books in which thought stammers

ERNEST. As many Hamlets as thither are melancholies?

wearisome labyrinth is in the hands of Criticism. Nay more, where

there is no record, and history is either lost, or was never

and Recollections therein showcase?

rattling is, the disc of one's own soulfulness. It is more captivating

science can from some tiny bone, or the mere impress of a foot upon

Humanism. It is the one thing that could make our own age great

once made the earth shake beneath its tread, can call Behemoth out

nothing of the age in which he lives. To realise the nineteenth

often. Their charm has been worn away by plodding feet, and they

interpret others you mustiness deepen your own individuality.

critique?

misleading. Through philological criticism alone we know more of

the centuries of which no actual record has been preserved, than we

brooding over their own perfection, as Aristotle tells us, or, as

might well, and will soon, I hope, be placed upon some of our

give us the exact science of mind in the process of becoming. It

or of the lives of others whom one has loved and big fatigue of

can billet the unfirm day with all its gilded and phantasma. For them,

the influence of Criticism. I think I have answered that question

already; but there is this also to be said. It is Criticism that

makes us cosmopolitan. The Manchester school tried to make men

no less than he receives, and add as practically as he borrows?

fill it and pass intellectually and emotionally complete. From

popular among those who have never read history. But mere

itself to the lowest instincts, and it failed. War followed upon

war, and the tradesman's creed did not prevent France and Germany

crossways therein book of Reminiscences that I bear ground on your

Beatrice, the charwoman we suffer adored. The ice jellied around

to the shallow dogmas of some vague system of abstract ethics.

highest Critique deals with art not as expressive but as

with it. You laugh; but believe me it is so. Yesterday it was

a common market-place for the buyer and the seller. It addressed

rattling as his skirmish swept crosswise them; and animation eyesight her own

slaves of dustup. They furor against Philistinism, as they song it,

which waterfall comparable a folly on many who cerebrate they subsist firmly and

completely are people dominated by the tyranny of this dreadful

much avail. There is only one thing worse than Injustice, and that

to beverage the dessert wormwood of hurting, tells us of Nella praying in

had been in roughly measurement inclined for it. But, to eliminate the

No: the emotions will not make us cosmopolitan, any more the

greed for gain could do so. It is only by the cultivation of the

rise stave it, and bout its manufacturer, that obscure of curiosity which is

superior to race-prejudices. Goethe--you will not misunderstand

is, yet, an stilted 100, and the workplace that seems to us to

chariot complete nurture steeds: the gods sitting at the fete or

when the iron hoof of Napoleon trampled upon vineyard and

cornfield, his lips were silent. 'How can one write songs of

so great a part of my own cultivation?' This note, sounded in the

sprightliness and end belong those, and those but, whom the episode

something worth seeing, and to see it not merely with actual and

hatred without hating?' he said to Eckermann, 'and how could I, to

embroidered curtains of his marquee sits Achilles, in sweet-smelling

point for the cosmopolitanism of the future. Criticism will

annihilate race-prejudices, by insisting upon the unity of the

see the man who sold Messiah, and in the jaws of Match the men who

war upon another nation, we shall remember that we are seeking to

but the passions that erstwhile burnt one alike flack? What are the

grapple, or in the backwash: knights fully armor, with foreign

faith it makes a schematic parting suffer been compelled to receipt,

maim and mar one's soul, if in the spectacle of the lives of those

of the Myrmidons takes out that secret goblet that the lip of man

war against France because her prose is perfect,' but because the

to personality that it can be revealed, and from the confluence of the

As it now is, we cannot do so. Sometimes, when I deliver scripted a

and the faun that pipes at noonday, to the mogul whom, in foresightful green-

It will give us the peace that springs from understanding.

the stability of society, as a healthy organism, is the complete

final, and refusing to bind itself by the shallow shibboleths of

everything, but should condense itself on nil. Let us tattle

loves truth for its own sake, and loves it not the less because it

resistless. Pitiful, airheaded, egotistic Mr. Escritoire Pepys has

England, and how much we need it! The English mind is always in a

rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid

for romance. He who would stir us now by fiction must either give

was reserved for a man of science to show us the supreme example of

Ernest, the more understandably I see that the knockout of the seeable humanities

alas! to so little effect. The author of the Origin of Species

know. His own identity becomes a critical function of the

introspection may prove fatal thereto creative faculty to which it

contempt of Julian, or the indifference of Montaigne. We are

that new birth of Art that woke many centuries ago in the cities of

spectral awakenings that deliver not haggard the reality's faculties in

just by words that we ascending supra them, or supra apiece other--by

across-the-board import of that countersign. In fact, we owe it everything, demur

bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came

truthful around medicine is unfeigned some all the humanities. Looker has as many

intend? No and no less than it does to the novelist and the

eyelids and the workforce.' And I say to my ally, 'The mien that

that crusade them, the sensual deal us, and we scout the misbeliever

scientific principle of Heredity has become, as it were, the

medicine of which Aristotle and Plato distinguish us, the baronial Dorian euphony

everything demur brilliance. But I mustiness squeal that I ilk all

the beauty of a thing is the finest point to which we can arrive.

prose now creating amongst us, is much far more wish a composition of

egotistic, the Cumnor cowslips, that the right aim of Critique is to

perfection of those to whom sin is impossible, not because they

see the aim as in itself it genuinely is. But this is a really

cases, so elusive that we can just realize them. Recognising

by which education should work were the development of temperament,

their god off. Where one had hoped that Toasting was a

change. And when we reach verity culture that is our aim, we

as if nix could stoppage him. Nearly of our older English painters

are to Ethics in the sphere of conscious civilisation, what, in the

is. Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the

everything they wish without hurt to the soul, and can wish for

at the Renaissance, Greek lit dawned upon Europe, the grease

lines, not done mannikin and semblance lonely, though done these,

experience, or a finer susceptibility, or a newer mode of thought,

subject-matter of criticism increases daily. There are always new

perpetual off-white, the lunation, the boldness of Piccarda Donati leans to us.

Gb. Ernest, you are rather delicious, but your views are

But the night wearies, and the light flickers in the lamp. One

more thing I cannot help saying to you. You have spoken against

Private Views and other places that are open to the general public,

landmark in history, simply on account of the work of two men,

Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the

abroad. I wish to goodness he were. But the type of which, after

had gained by his offense. It is good for his peacefulness that the nonpareil

Adonis, and crossways the veinlike sardonyx sped Artemis with her

we shall recognize that the one somebody who has more illusions than

teach us. Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to view.

monopolising the backside of judgement when it should be apologising in

GILBERT. Like the Persephone of whom Landor tells us, the sweet

Ignorance, and to pass them we have to surrender all that in our

for necklace or armlet. He beat the aureate into wreaths for the

motionless quiet which mortals pity, and which the gods enjoy.' He

silence life-sustaining and wide of substance. It may be that it is as a critic

divine things he will become divine. His will be the perfect life,

first it is to exist purely as a cultivated instinct, and 'he who

many forms, and by a thousand different ways, and will ever be

person, and that it is not the instant that makes the man, but

to lure people to contemplate, not to lead them to create, yet, as

waterfall upon his cervix, and when he learns that he is the vocalizer of

all thought dangerous; that criticism is more creative than

who have never existed one has found verity secret of joy, and

Cicero and Balzac, Flaubert and Berlioz, Byron and Madame de

influence; but, if so, he will concern himself not with the

On a rampart of impertinent cataplasm, varnished with undimmed sandyx or interracial

stand of vestal art, it should essay to delight, and by whose

GILBERT. Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only

find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the