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... important works of sculpture now rare , as they are always very expensive . In England , where the great mass of extraordinary wealth would very well admit of it , the execution is impeded by another cause . Sculpture , whose business ...
... important works of sculpture now rare , as they are always very expensive . In England , where the great mass of extraordinary wealth would very well admit of it , the execution is impeded by another cause . Sculpture , whose business ...
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... important and universal an intellectual want . Precisely because art was necessary to education and instruction , the artists had at the same time the correct feeling that they were to satisfy it , by the greatest possible perspicuity ...
... important and universal an intellectual want . Precisely because art was necessary to education and instruction , the artists had at the same time the correct feeling that they were to satisfy it , by the greatest possible perspicuity ...
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... important works in the pure Flemish style of the school of Van Eyck ; whereas people are used to judge of him by the man- nered pictures in the Italian taste , which he painted during and after that journey . In this picture he is by no ...
... important works in the pure Flemish style of the school of Van Eyck ; whereas people are used to judge of him by the man- nered pictures in the Italian taste , which he painted during and after that journey . In this picture he is by no ...
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... important than all this show are the manifold works of art of various kinds which the spacious apartments of the palace contain , and which give it the appearance of a museum . " Chatworth ( Duke of Devonshire's ) , Bowood ( Marquis of ...
... important than all this show are the manifold works of art of various kinds which the spacious apartments of the palace contain , and which give it the appearance of a museum . " Chatworth ( Duke of Devonshire's ) , Bowood ( Marquis of ...
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... importance in which the present work is to be viewed . It is pos- sible that a difference of opinion may exist with regard to the pre- cise value of Scott's character , but no doubt has ever arisen con- cerning the fidelity of his ...
... importance in which the present work is to be viewed . It is pos- sible that a difference of opinion may exist with regard to the pre- cise value of Scott's character , but no doubt has ever arisen con- cerning the fidelity of his ...
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Página 32 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man — be virtuous — be religious — be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Página 112 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Página 597 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Página 602 - At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 32 - Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm, that every window was wide open — and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.
Página 599 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Página 466 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 602 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.
Página 601 - With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of my ears did pour The leperous distilment ; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quick-silver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And with a sudden vigour it doth posset And curd, like eager...
Página 600 - That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, ]3ut our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; When down her weedy trophies, and herself, Fell in the weeping brook.