The life and writings of Henry Fuseli, the former written and the latter ed. by J. Knowles, Volumen1 |
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... beauty of this passage will no doubt prompt Mr. C. to revise the words descriptive of the olive's gen- der . He cannot possibly have had an eye to the passage in the XIth B. of the Odyssey , relating to the spirit of Tiresias ; the ...
... beauty of this passage will no doubt prompt Mr. C. to revise the words descriptive of the olive's gen- der . He cannot possibly have had an eye to the passage in the XIth B. of the Odyssey , relating to the spirit of Tiresias ; the ...
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... beauty , as Constantinus Manasses to give us a clear idea of Helen by his agglomeration of epithets , or as Haller of the Genziana , by a description of nineteen lines . The images which Mr. R. adduces from Lorenzo confirm this ; they ...
... beauty , as Constantinus Manasses to give us a clear idea of Helen by his agglomeration of epithets , or as Haller of the Genziana , by a description of nineteen lines . The images which Mr. R. adduces from Lorenzo confirm this ; they ...
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... beauty , and the de- formities of his Sin ; and if , by the superhuman flight of his fancy , he snatched the attributes and shape of Death from a region yet unexplored by former wings , the being itself had not been unknown to the ...
... beauty , and the de- formities of his Sin ; and if , by the superhuman flight of his fancy , he snatched the attributes and shape of Death from a region yet unexplored by former wings , the being itself had not been unknown to the ...
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... beauty , helpless , but undismayed ; the clown or brute alone , who handled it , pushed you down among the assassins from the hero's side . Humanity may avert our eyes with propriety from the murdered subjects of Pietro Testa , Joseph ...
... beauty , helpless , but undismayed ; the clown or brute alone , who handled it , pushed you down among the assassins from the hero's side . Humanity may avert our eyes with propriety from the murdered subjects of Pietro Testa , Joseph ...
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... beauty and comeliness , Mrs. Wollstonecraft had been frequently solicited to marry ; but previously to her acquaintance with Mr. Fuseli , she had never known any man " possessed of those noble qualities , that grandeur of soul , that ...
... beauty and comeliness , Mrs. Wollstonecraft had been frequently solicited to marry ; but previously to her acquaintance with Mr. Fuseli , she had never known any man " possessed of those noble qualities , that grandeur of soul , that ...
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Página 356 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Página 204 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They looking back all th...
Página 196 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course; they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Página 199 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Página 206 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Página 203 - Shall bring on men." Immediately a place Before his eyes appear'd, sad, noisome, dark ; A lazar-house it seem'd, wherein were laid Numbers of all...
Página 206 - To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend...
Página 200 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat! Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Página 195 - In billows, leave i' th' midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Página 203 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.