Laurus Nobilis - Chapters on Art and Life

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Laurus Nobilis, by Vernon Lee This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Author: Vernon Lee Release Date: January 31, 2009 [EBook #27939] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LAURUS NOBILIS *** Produced by Delphine Lettau and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries. LAURUS NOBILIS BY VERNON LEE. CONTENTS. The Use of Beauty "Nisi Citharam" Higher Harmonies Beauty and Sanity The Art and the Country Art and Usefulness Wasteful Pleasures LAURUS NOBILIS. CHAPTERS ON ART AND LIFE. TO ANGELICA RASPONI DALLE TESTE FROM HER GRATEFUL OLD FRIEND AND NEIGHBOUR VERNON LEE. 1885-1908. Die Realität der Dinge ist der Dinge Werk; der Schein der Dinge ist der Menschen Werk; und ein Gemüt, das sich am Scheine weidet, ergötzt sich schon nicht mehr an dem, was es empfängt, sondern an dem, was es tut. Schiller, Briefe über Ästhetik. THE USE OF BEAUTY. I.