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Title: The Silent Isle
Author: Arthur Christopher Benson
Release Date: April 5, 2004 [eBook #11911]
Language: English
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THE SILENT ISLE
BY
ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON
Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
1913
Nec prohibui cor meum.
To PERCY LUBBOCK
INTRODUCTION
There are two ways of recording and communicating to others an
impression, say, of a building or a place. One way is to sit down at a
definite point, and make an elaborate picture. It is thus perhaps that
one grasps the artistic significance and unity of the object best; one
sees it in a chosen light of noon or eve; one feels its dominant
emotion, its harmony of proportion and outline. Or else one may wander
about and take sketches of it from a dozen different points of view,
record little delicacies of detail, tiny whims and irregularities; and
thus one learns more of the variety and humours of the place, its
gestures and irritabilities, its failures of purpose or design.
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