Word: parthenon
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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...causes of this lamentable degeneracy lie deep, and therefore should be all the more objects of solicitude to the artist. Murder, like architecture, like painting, and like poetry, is simply the expression of national feeling, colored by the peculiarities of the individual. Murder among the Greeks was, like the Parthenon and the Iliad, simple, objective, severe in style, regular, and graceful. So the highest forms of murder to be found in Teutonic nations resemble the Gothic architecture and the poetry of Shakspeare in their wilder style, their higher emotion, their deep and solemn mystery. Coming to our own time...