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... thought him delirious , and sent for a physician : but his pulse had a recovering beat in it ; his skin was moist and cool ; his thirst was gone , and every thing betokened convalescence . While the doctor stood puzzled about a disease ...
... thought him delirious , and sent for a physician : but his pulse had a recovering beat in it ; his skin was moist and cool ; his thirst was gone , and every thing betokened convalescence . While the doctor stood puzzled about a disease ...
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... thought otherwise . The subject which genius chooses for itself is , how- ever , in most cases , the best . The sober imagina- tion of West had here a twofold excitement - he had witnessed the scene , and it was American - and had Lord ...
... thought otherwise . The subject which genius chooses for itself is , how- ever , in most cases , the best . The sober imagina- tion of West had here a twofold excitement - he had witnessed the scene , and it was American - and had Lord ...
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... thoughts to Italy . The Italian harvest having failed , a consignment of wheat and flour was sent from the New World to the Old , and put under the charge of one of the Allens of Philadelphia , who offered West a passage to Leghorn . It ...
... thoughts to Italy . The Italian harvest having failed , a consignment of wheat and flour was sent from the New World to the Old , and put under the charge of one of the Allens of Philadelphia , who offered West a passage to Leghorn . It ...
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... thought the colouring surpassed his other compositions . Dance , an Englishman of sense and acuteness , looked at it closely ; " the colouring surpasses that of Mengs , " he observed , " but the drawing is neither so fine nor so good ...
... thought the colouring surpassed his other compositions . Dance , an Englishman of sense and acuteness , looked at it closely ; " the colouring surpasses that of Mengs , " he observed , " but the drawing is neither so fine nor so good ...
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... thought that excellence in art was enough . By dining with divines , he had learned to skim the surface of religious knowledge , and his professional and general society gave him hints as to what was passing in the world of litera- ture ...
... thought that excellence in art was enough . By dining with divines , he had learned to skim the surface of religious knowledge , and his professional and general society gave him hints as to what was passing in the world of litera- ture ...
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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.