| Show t The Scn o of rjrinff It is ptThaps a commonplace to ayUiatVhIle the pcfccptlorrb beautyin IU many outward and visible forms Inspires tlio loett Ming and tliu aitittM pencil it III the source also ofi much thaf Is noblest In character Every act of selfsacrifice the hope that looks heavenward the love that casts out fear the sympathy that leads oto tile I relt 1 < ottt4tralibn of men like Gor d6u and Damleu like Howard and Livingstone points to thcSupremr Beauty vrhcure these noble men vail inany ethers like them gained their ttesJfhitniss of purpcee ant serenity of tplilt Ye can not Jls tociate the hfghwtylrUie 1 from beauty beau-ty because the gooduef s that gives a divine purpcfc to life makes life iinrmonious fuggcsting to us the harmony which as tShakctpeare iavk is In Immortal Eoul And before having the moral Lpeet beauty it may be remarked that even loin and ccrrowoud death can be so glorified by fubrnUsiou and faith us to retail the beauty ot which according to Apocrypha God is the first Author These an high mattery but they have an utcrest for all of ur Muce there is I 10 percoil whether his position bt hat eta millionaire or a tlccklabcr er who may tILt llveo lifein nc cordanco with the highest law and hcreforevone Uiat will l be luib measure beautiful L If order be as POI 1 tells us lieavens Jlrtt law its it-s evident that in morality as well as in art lUsdeniapdeJJjy ourseiiM of beauty And it in this sense hch insTiirvf whatever is the high cst worth in art or i literature In poetry eltnough other quail ro dl lea may be requIred building ur a great work such as The Tern pest or ParadIse Lost t the per eptlon of beauty is not only csscn > Ut tfI r cJ Ual but predominant A Urea I poets imagination craves nlove all I hlugsfor tills sense which gullet him unerringly fnsjcad feasting icrpetually on Declared sweets which would take the manhood out of thIs verse he knows how to cn fiance tho1 tento cf lirauty in hii readers by tie Use of contrast Them is no poet in the language who has nioro wealth of music or more command otfl imagery than Spenser Ho is emphatically tIe poet of the beautiful yet to well doe he understand the need of contrast In art that ho docs not scruple ccaslonallytoiisa language which the taste of our day that likes Ill uiedlcinu sugared may term db gusting Note too how well Shakespeare Shakes-peare understood tills ait of contrast file play that exhibits lachlmo one Ills greatest TJlUUnr gives us also mogeii the sweetest woman that lives in verse Miranda Is brought nto opposition with Caliban if ol I1Ilt r J there had not been an logo we should not have had a UesJemona and for Miltons Eve we have to tiank the archfiend who was found b ij Ithuricl Vquat like a ten clot nt her ear IcRaylng by his devilish Art lo reach the organs of her fancy Words orlhs sense of beauty was keels enough at time or he would not bo a great peel but it came to him by fit and therefore all hi loveliest verse has the brevity and ponUiuelty of the lyric To tho poet IIIU capacity for sctlug and feeling tho loveliness that lies around him rings untold delights What moil men pas by with indifference is to him a Joy nircver In tie woods fluId in thu fields in crowded streets and in mountain solitudts in the cwy freshness of the morning in the solemn stillness of night clad In the beauty of a thousand stars In the Innocent mirth of childhood In the dawning loveof the maiden In the young mother leaning over her babe in the song onn untroubled untrou-bled heart in the tranquil patience or n sad one the poet finds food for imagInation and an everdeepening love of beauty gives inspiration to hh song And the delight of the poet is shared inn lower degree by every one who is sensitive to beauty We men of prose may not have the rapturous delight In nature dart d-art or spirits more finely touched tout we can too enough and feel enough ourselves to conceive what that delight must be And woes are the pains of genius which arc acute in proportion to its pleasures III nature well OH in poetry the euse of beauty is simulated by con rast If all women were pretty low soon we should cease to admire ovcUKkyes and fair complexions I ont tne thousand charms which lake women In their weakness stronger than men nro In their irtngth if all men were haudFomu fine features would be disregarded In climates which have month of periittual drought and heat the bur sky becomes hateful I and the un instead of being the best of riend asin temperate lands is regarded re-garded sa nu enemy An Knglish nun find cloudy days depressing Koause they an so frequent in this bland his brothers in tropical lands welcome them becnuf they are so ew In nuInia 1 lifi ro Uie same rule holds good and I quustion if we should admire the exquisite shill of n gazelle or of a wellbred bone and the eoperb plumage of depeacock and the secretary bird were it not for the contrast afforded by the rhinoceros the hippopotAmus hippopo-tamus and tile 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