Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, … - Goldwin Smith
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, …
- Goldwin Smith
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious. - Goldwin Smith
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door. - Goldwin Smith
Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express. - Goldwin Smith
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit. - Goldwin Smith
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest. - Goldwin Smith
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown. - Goldwin Smith
The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.
But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, an… - Goldwin Smith
But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, an…
Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the politica… - Goldwin Smith
Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the politica…
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