Granite, qualities of, iv. 109, 110; color of, iv. 136.
Grass, uses of, iii. 227; type of humility and cheerfulness, and of the passing away of human life, iii. 227, 228, v. [96]; Greek mode of regarding as opposed to mediæval, iii. 223, 224; enamelled, Dante’s “green enamel” description of, iii. 222, 226; damp, Greek love of, iii. 222; careful drawing of, by Venetians, iii. 317; mystery in, i. 315, iii. 221; man’s love of, iii. 224; first element of lovely landscape, iii. 224.
Gratitude, from what arising, ii. 15; a duty to the living can’t be paid to the dead, i. 6.
Greatness, tests of, i. 323, iii. 260, 261, v. [175]. See Art, Artists.
Greek, conception of Godhead, iii. 170, 175; art, spirit of, v. [209], [213]; poetry, purpose of, the victory over fate, sin, and death, v. [209], [210]; religion, the manful struggle with evil, v. [211]-213; ideas of truthfulness, v. [267], [268]; mythology, v. [300], [307], [308], [322]; distrust of nature, v. [324]; culture of human beauty, iii. 179, 180, 198, 204; landscape, composed of a fountain, meadow, and grove, iii. 181; belief in the presence of Deity in nature, iii. 169-177; absence of feeling for the picturesque, iii. 187; belief in particular gods ruling the elements, iii. 171-177; and Mediæval feeling, difference between, iii. 218; ideal of God, ii. 223; faith, compared with that of an old Scotch farmer, iii. 188; feeling about waves, iii. 169; indifference to color, iii. 219, 220; life, healthy, iii. 175; formalism of ornament, iii. 208; not visionary, iii. 188; delight in trees, meadows, gardens, caves, poplars, flat country, and damp grass, iii. 182-186, 221; preference of utility to beauty, iii. 181, 185; love of order, iii. 181, 189; coins, v. [36]; description of clouds, v. [137]-144; design, v. [196].
Grief, a noble emotion, ii. 129, iii. 10.
Grotesque, third form of the Ideal, iii. 92-107; three kinds of, iii. 92; noble, iii. 93, 102; true and false (mediæval and classical) griffins, iii. 101-107; Spenser’s description of Envy, iii. 94; how fitted for illumination, iii. 101; modern, iv. 385-403.
Grotesque Expressional, iv. 385; modern example of, “Gen. Fèvrier turned traitor,” iv. 388.
Habit, errors induced by; embarrasses the judgment, ii. 24; modifying effects of, ii. 32; power of, how typified, iv. 215. See Custom.
Heavens, fitfulness and infinity of, i. 135; means in Scripture, clouds, iv. 86; relation of, to our globe, iv. 88, v. [148]; presence of God in, iv. 88; Hebrew, Greek, and Latin names for, v. [147]-150; meaning of, in 19th Psalm, v. [148].