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... happy America . The pains of premature labour came upon Mrs. West during this terrible sermon - she shrieked out - the women formed a circle round her , and carried her from the field ; and such was her agitation of mind , that she had ...
... happy America . The pains of premature labour came upon Mrs. West during this terrible sermon - she shrieked out - the women formed a circle round her , and carried her from the field ; and such was her agitation of mind , that she had ...
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... happy to let the work be shown to the public . " " Then , Mr. West , " said Kirby , " you will send it to my ex- hibition . " " No ! " interrupted his Majesty , “ it must go to my exhibition - to that of the Royal Academy . " The ...
... happy to let the work be shown to the public . " " Then , Mr. West , " said Kirby , " you will send it to my ex- hibition . " " No ! " interrupted his Majesty , “ it must go to my exhibition - to that of the Royal Academy . " The ...
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... happy propriety of manner , the results of a de- vout domestic education . His kindness to young artists was great - his liberality seriously impaired his income - he never seemed weary of giving ad- vice - intrusion never disturbed his ...
... happy propriety of manner , the results of a de- vout domestic education . His kindness to young artists was great - his liberality seriously impaired his income - he never seemed weary of giving ad- vice - intrusion never disturbed his ...
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... happy and careless combinations of nature , and the figures seemed distributed over the canvass by line and measure , like trees in a planta- tion . He wanted fire and imagination to be the true restorer of that grand style which ...
... happy and careless combinations of nature , and the figures seemed distributed over the canvass by line and measure , like trees in a planta- tion . He wanted fire and imagination to be the true restorer of that grand style which ...
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... happy thought . The Battle of La Hogue I have heard praised as the best historic picture of the British school , by one not likely to be mistaken , and who would not say what he did not feel . Many of his single figures , also , are of ...
... happy thought . The Battle of La Hogue I have heard praised as the best historic picture of the British school , by one not likely to be mistaken , and who would not say what he did not feel . Many of his single figures , also , are of ...
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Página 126 - What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee...
Página 131 - Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read.
Página 150 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning...
Página 125 - Whether in heaven ye wander fair Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air, Where the melodious winds have birth...
Página 126 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
Página 142 - This is an awful thing to say to oil painters ; they may call it madness, but it is true. All the genuine old little pictures, called cabinet pictures, are in fresco and not in oil.
Página 141 - Colouring does not depend on where the Colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on Form or Outline. On where that is put; where that is wrong, the Colouring never can be right; and it is always wrong in Titian and Correggio, Rubens and Rembrandt.
Página 232 - Peter's, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramante and his successors, he concentrated ; suspended the cupola, and to the most complex gave the air of the most simple of edifices.
Página 143 - The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations: as one age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight, but to immortals only the same; for we see the same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men; nothing new occurs in identical existence; Accident ever varies, Substance can never suffer change nor decay. Of Chaucer's characters, as described in his Canterbury Tales...
Página 143 - Belvidere, and all the grand works of ancient art. They were executed in a very superior style to those justly admired copies, being with their accompaniments terrific and grand in the highest degree. The Artist has endeavoured to emulate the grandeur of those seen in his vision, and to apply it to modern Heroes, on a smaller scale.