In its artless cruelty, Dallas is superior to any "intelligent" critique that can be made of it. That is why intellectual snobbery... meets its match here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This artless young creature [Evelina], with too much beauty to escape notice, has too much sensibility to be indifferent to it; bu...t she has too little wealth to be sought with propriety by men of the fashionable world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This letter will be delivered to you by my child,--the child of my adoption,--my affection! Unblest with one natural friend, she m...erits a thousand. I send her to you innocent as an angel, and artless as purity itself; and I send you with her the heart of your friend, the only hope he has on earth, the subject of his tenderest thoughts, and the object of his latest cares.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be naked is to be deprived of our clothes, and the word implies some of the embarrassment most of us feel in that condition. Th...e word "nude," on the other hand, carries, in educated usage, no uncomfortable overtone. The vague image it projects into the mind is not of a huddled and defenseless body, but of a balanced, prosperous, and confident body: the body re-formed. In fact, the word was forced into our vocabulary by critics of the early eighteenth century to persuade artless islanders that, in countries where painting and sculpture were practiced and valued as they should be, the naked human body was the central subject of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such as we were we gave ourselves outright (The deed of gift was many deeds of war)... To the land vaguely realizing westward, But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, Such as she was, such as she would become.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the artless doctor sees No one hope, but of his fees,... And his skill runs on the lees; Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When his potion and his pill, Has, or none, or little skill, Meet for nothing, but to kill; Sweet Spirit, comfort me!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island ...girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de' Medici placed beside a milliner's doll.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy.... Poets seem to consider religion rather as a variation of poetry which by misjudging its proper beautiful game takes itself too seriously and one-sidedly. Philosophy, however, admits and recognizes that it can begin and complete itself only with religion. Poetry seeks only to strive for the infinite and despises worldly utility and culture, which are the true antitheses of religion. Eternal peace among artists is thus not far away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is, Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.... So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »