The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton, Volumen1G. Allen, 1906 |
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The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton, Volumen1 Mrs. Russell Barrington Vista completa - 1906 |
The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton, Volumen1 Mrs. Russell Barrington Vista completa - 1906 |
The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton, Volumen1 Mrs. Russell Barrington Vista completa - 1906 |
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acquaintance Adelaide Kemble admiration affectionate Algiers answer artist Bagni di Lucca Bath beauty believe Briton Rivière charm Cimabue Cimabue's Madonna colour Cornelius dear friend dear Mamma dear Master DEAREST delight drawing Eduard von Steinle England Exhibition expect eyes Fanny Kemble father feel felt Florence flowers Frankfurt FRED LEIGHTON fresco G. F. Watts Gamba gifts Giotto give glad Hamo Thornycroft Hanson Walker happy HARV UNION hear heard heart Henry Greville hope idea interest Italy journey Kemble kindly Lady Leighton House Collection Leighton writes letter lines London look Lord Leighton Madonna mind morning mother nature never painter painting Papa Paris Pebble Pheidias photograph picture pleasure portrait pupil received remember Rome Romeo Romola sincerely sister sketch Steinle tell thanks thing Titian told Venice Watts weeks winter wish wrote
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Página 32 - We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world...
Página x - One man, when he has done a service to another, is ready to set it down to his account as a favor conferred. Another is not ready to do this, but still in his own mind he thinks of the man as his debtor, and he knows what he has done. A third in a manner does not even know what he has done, but he is like a vine which has produced...
Página 164 - Such life here, through such lengths of hours, Such miracles performed in play, Such primal naked forms of flowers, Such letting nature have her way While heaven looks from its towers...
Página 210 - I remember hearing him say that " Goethe's poetry was not inevitable enough." The remark is striking and true; no line in Goethe, as Goethe said himself, but its maker knew well how it came there. Wordsworth is right, Goethe's poetry is not inevitable ; not inevitable enough. But Wordsworth's poetry, when he is at his best, is inevitable, as inevitable as Nature herself. It might seem that Nature not only gave him the matter for his poem, but wrote his poem for him.
Página 164 - How say you? Let us, O my dove, Let us be unashamed of soul, As earth lies bare to heaven above ! How is it under our control To love or not to love?
Página 15 - ... the soul which is of the third class shall be a politician, or economist, or trader; the fourth shall be a lover of gymnastic toils, or a physician...
Página 107 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Página 192 - ... the room were not unlike sunset colours. There was a long piano with a bowl of flowers on it in the centre of the room ; there were soft carpets to tread upon ; a beautiful little boy in a white dress, with yellow locks all a-shine from the light of the window, was perched upon a low chair looking at his mother, who with her arm round him stood by the chair, so that their two heads were on a level. She was dressed (I can see her still) in a sort of gray satin robe, and her beautiful proud head...
Página 186 - This is a very important and very beautiful picture. It has both sincerity and grace, and is painted on the purest principles of Venetian art, — that is to say, on the calm acceptance of the whole of nature, small and great, as, in its place, deserving of faithful rendering. The great secret of the Venetians was their simplicity. They were great...
Página 15 - ... to the seventh the life of an artisan or husbandman; to the eighth that of a sophist or demagogue; to the ninth that of a tyrant; — all these are states of probation, in which he who does righteously improves, and he who does unrighteously, deteriorates his lot.