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PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ART chap, ii
poet, finds beauty in almost every woman he mentions. Then
the critic betrays his own predilections; for he grows eloquent
over the slightly parted lips of his lady, between which there
shows a line of teeth so even and so white that you might take
them for a string of well-matched pearls. Alas ! by this time
we have forgotten the severity of Calamis and the majesty
of Pheidias, and have sunk to the level of daily life. The lover
has overpowered the critic. But the truth is, as stated above,
that art-criticism requires a reflective and self-conscious atti-
tude which is foreign to the Greek genius.
PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ART chap, ii
poet, finds beauty in almost every woman he mentions. Then
the critic betrays his own predilections; for he grows eloquent
over the slightly parted lips of his lady, between which there
shows a line of teeth so even and so white that you might take
them for a string of well-matched pearls. Alas ! by this time
we have forgotten the severity of Calamis and the majesty
of Pheidias, and have sunk to the level of daily life. The lover
has overpowered the critic. But the truth is, as stated above,
that art-criticism requires a reflective and self-conscious atti-
tude which is foreign to the Greek genius.