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Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic |
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| Author
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Benedetto Croce
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Science
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English
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1909
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| Notes
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Translated from the Italian by Douglas Ainslie B.A. (Oxon.)
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thick-set man advanced to greet me, and pronouncing my name at the same time with
a slight foreign accent, asked me to be seated beside him. After the interchange
of a few brief formulae of politeness in French, our conversation was carried
on in Italian, and I had a better opportunity of studying my host's air and manner.
His hands he held clasped before him, but frequently released them, to make those
vivid gestures with which Neapolitans frequently clinch their phrase. His most
remarkable feature was his eyes, of a greenish grey: extraordinary eyes, not for
beauty, but for their fathomless depth, and for the sympathy which one felt welling
up in them from the soul beneath. This was especially noticeable as our conversation
fell upon the question of Art and upon the many problems bound up with it. I do
not know how long that first interview lasted, but it seemed a few minutes only,
during which was displayed before me a vast panorama of unknown height and headland,
of league upon league of forest, with i
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