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... picturesque character of his head , and its suitability for an histo- rical work which he was probably contemplating at the time , took him home , and painted from him - not the present study alone , but various other views of his ...
... picturesque character of his head , and its suitability for an histo- rical work which he was probably contemplating at the time , took him home , and painted from him - not the present study alone , but various other views of his ...
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... picturesque accidents of certain drapery- folds , and occupying nearly all the middle portion of the panel on which it is painted . Of this lumi- nous pyramid , the head of the Madonna forms - and worthily forms - the apex . Although ...
... picturesque accidents of certain drapery- folds , and occupying nearly all the middle portion of the panel on which it is painted . Of this lumi- nous pyramid , the head of the Madonna forms - and worthily forms - the apex . Although ...
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... picturesque than a camel - skin would have been , and in more technical unison with the rest of the composition . Parmegiano probably did not feel free enough from educational trammels , to dispense , like Titian and Coreggio and Julio ...
... picturesque than a camel - skin would have been , and in more technical unison with the rest of the composition . Parmegiano probably did not feel free enough from educational trammels , to dispense , like Titian and Coreggio and Julio ...
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... picturesque and more extraordinary miracle of self - support , or spiritual buoyancy in the air - next to this wonder- and we should probably say next before it — the recalling of a human being to life , who had been dead and buried ...
... picturesque and more extraordinary miracle of self - support , or spiritual buoyancy in the air - next to this wonder- and we should probably say next before it — the recalling of a human being to life , who had been dead and buried ...
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... picturesque , nor conformable to known Hebrew usages , or to the text of St. John . In fact , the spectator is obliged to hunt about in order to discover any thing at all resembling a tomb , coffin , or place of sepulture ; and after ...
... picturesque , nor conformable to known Hebrew usages , or to the text of St. John . In fact , the spectator is obliged to hunt about in order to discover any thing at all resembling a tomb , coffin , or place of sepulture ; and after ...
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Page 47 - The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that sculks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Page 219 - Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Page 235 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole ; Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Page 182 - No more shall nation against nation rise, Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes; Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er; The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more; But useless lances into scythes shall bend, And the broad falchion in a ploughshare end.
Page 265 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad hearts, without reproach or blot; Who do thy work and know it not; Oh!
Page 271 - Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me; for he was before me.
Page 187 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 273 - Parched body, hollow eyes, some uncouth thing Made him appear, long since from earth exiled. There burst he forth: "All ye whose hopes rely On God, with me amidst these deserts mourn, Repent, repent, and from old errors turn!
Page 201 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Page 263 - My best guide now : methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe, Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, When, for their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss.