它一直被列为对艺术家和文学家非议，他们在整体性和完整性的性质缺乏。作为一项规则这也必须是这样。这种远见和目标强度非常的集中，它是艺术气质的特点是一个模式本身的限制。对于那些与谁的形式，没有别的美似乎全神贯注的重视。然而，这条规则有很多例外。鲁本斯担任大使，以及国务委员歌德，如拉丁美洲和米尔顿秘书克伦威尔。索福克勒斯举行了自己的城市公民处，humourists，散文作家和小说家现代
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    It has constantly been made a subject of reproach against artists and men of letters that they are lacking in wholeness and completeness of nature. As a rule this must necessarily be so. That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance. Yet there are many exceptions to this rule. Rubens served as ambassador, and Goethe as state councillor, and Milton as Latin secretary to Cromwell. Sophocles held civic office in his own city; the humourists, essayists, and novelists of modern