Dyce collection. A catalogue of the paintings, miniatures, drawings, engravings, rings, and miscellaneous objects bequeathed by A. Dyce

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Page 87 - Tis safety to be near thee sure, and thus To clasp perfection !" From his void embrace, Mysterious heaven ! that moment, to the ground, A blacken'd corse, was struck the beauteous maid.
Page 252 - and Death of John Earl of Rochester," a work which cannot be recommended in more appropriate terms than those of Dr.
Page 270 - Sleep no more ! Macbeth doth murder sleep ! " — the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ; — Lady M.
Page 225 - Portia. It must not be. There is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established : 'Twill be recorded for a precedent, And many an error by the same example Will rush into the state. It cannot be.
Page 108 - Your sport, my Lord, I cannot take, For I must go and hunt a Lake ; And while you chase the flying deer, I must fly off to Windermere. 'Stead of hallooing to a fox, I must catch echoes from the rocks ; With curious eye and active scent, I on the picturesque am bent ; This is my game, I must pursue it, And make it where I cannot view it...
Page 282 - DESCRIPTION of the CHAPEL of the ANNUNZIATA DELL' ARENA, or, GIOTTO'S CHAPEL, in PADUA.
Page 224 - I'd divide, And burn in many places ; on the topmast, The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet, and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors O...
Page 252 - Vecelii, Pauli Caliarii, Jacobi Robusti, et Jacobi de Ponte, Opera selectiora a Joanne Baptista Jackson, Anglo, Ligno ccelata et coloribus adumbrata.

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