The Quarterly Review, Volume 32William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1825 |
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Pagina 13
... taste as well as of his faith , and to which higher notions of inherent holiness are attached than have ever been ascribed to the Bible , even by those who may deserve the imputation of Bibliolatry : he must sacrifice those vices , the ...
... taste as well as of his faith , and to which higher notions of inherent holiness are attached than have ever been ascribed to the Bible , even by those who may deserve the imputation of Bibliolatry : he must sacrifice those vices , the ...
Pagina 42
... taste is an old maxim , true to a certain extent , but frequently applied beyond its legitimate limits . On many subjects of taste it is certainly im- possible , at least no one has yet been able , to lay down precise rules , or to give ...
... taste is an old maxim , true to a certain extent , but frequently applied beyond its legitimate limits . On many subjects of taste it is certainly im- possible , at least no one has yet been able , to lay down precise rules , or to give ...
Pagina 43
... taste . The merit then of any species of architecture must consist in its possessing the four great charac- teristics of Utility , Simplicity , Variety , and Richness , or at any rate , the three first , which may be considered as ...
... taste . The merit then of any species of architecture must consist in its possessing the four great charac- teristics of Utility , Simplicity , Variety , and Richness , or at any rate , the three first , which may be considered as ...
Pagina 48
... taste and science of an architect are frequently obliged to bend to the ignorant caprice of his patrons . This has been the case with respect to the Palazzo Chiericati at Vicenza ; a very magnificent design in its greater parts , and of ...
... taste and science of an architect are frequently obliged to bend to the ignorant caprice of his patrons . This has been the case with respect to the Palazzo Chiericati at Vicenza ; a very magnificent design in its greater parts , and of ...
Pagina 49
... taste and talents , is the fortunate possessor of some very valuable original designs of Palladio , which were never executed , but which perhaps do him more credit than any of his existing edifices ; besides a number of drawings of the ...
... taste and talents , is the fortunate possessor of some very valuable original designs of Palladio , which were never executed , but which perhaps do him more credit than any of his existing edifices ; besides a number of drawings of the ...
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Pagina 450 - This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Pagina 445 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Pagina 219 - Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved.
Pagina 442 - O! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Pagina 520 - We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.
Pagina 218 - I hear her in the tunefu' birds, I hear her charm the air: There's not a bonnie flower that springs By fountain, shaw, or green, There's not a bonnie bird that sings But minds me o
Pagina 216 - Like homely-featured night, of clustering gems ; A star or two, just twinkling on thy brow, Suffices thee ; save that the moon is thine No less than hers : not worn indeed on high With ostentatious pageantry, but set With modest grandeur in thy purple zone, Resplendent less, but of an ampler round.
Pagina 220 - The employments of pious meditation are Faith, Thanksgiving, Repentance, and Supplication. Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, the most joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a Being without passions, is confined to a few modes, and is to be felt, rather than expressed.
Pagina 353 - The Right Joyous and Pleasant History of the Feats, Gests and Prowesses of the Chevalier Bayard, the Good Knight without Fear and without Reproach . BY THE LOYAL SERVANT.
Pagina 302 - Yet serves to second too some other use. So Man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown, Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal ; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.