‘… the dry light which did scorch and offend most men’s natures.’—BACON, Essays, quoted by Emerson.
‘Architecture’ … (brings to) ‘greater distinctness some of those ideas which are the lowest grade of the objectivity of the Will; such as gravity, cohesion, rigidity, hardness, those universal qualities of stone, those first, simplest, most inarticulate manifestments of Will: the base notes of Nature.’—SCHOPENHAUER (‘Architecture’), The World as Will and Idea.
NOTE.—In this, Augustan poetry, as I have remarked elsewhere, bears a strong resemblance to Architecture; not only because of its rigid outward structure (which contains, however, within the lines, from pole to pole, great variation) — but because the consonantal system, the mass of the planet (see Note on Dunbar), is the base of those inward variations.—E. S.