J. A. Symonds

Cited as J. A. Symonds. — 22 quotations

None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets] correspond to the Shakespearean type.

This excellent man . . . counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.

Pius was able to defer and temporize at leisure.

The dancing maidens are disheveled Mænads.

A mere rhetorical embroidery of phrases.

He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor layman.

Painting may truly be said to have opened the new era of culture.

They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.

The Renaissance riots itself away in Marinism, Gongorism, Euphuism, and the affectations of the Hôtel Rambouillet.

He was hankering to join his friend.

Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions.

Mountain lines and distant horizons lend space and largeness to his compositions.

This liberty of judgment did not of necessity lead to lawlessness.

The intellectual and moral milieu created by multitudes of self-centered, cultivated personalities.

The pageantry of festival.

The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government.

The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed.

The flood of Catholic reaction was rolled over Europe.

The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem.

Painting, then, was the art demanded by the modern intellect upon its emergence from the stillness of the Middle Ages.

Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority.

The basis of his character was caution combined with tough tenacity of purpose.