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Pagina 5
... object , a plant or the stump of a tree , you learn something every moment . You perceive unexpected differences , and discover like- nesses where you looked for no such thing . You try to set down what you see - find out your error ...
... object , a plant or the stump of a tree , you learn something every moment . You perceive unexpected differences , and discover like- nesses where you looked for no such thing . You try to set down what you see - find out your error ...
Pagina 7
... object becomes lustrous from the light thrown back upon it by the mirror of art : and by the aid of the pencil we may be said to touch and handle the objects of sight . The air - drawn visions that hover on the verge of existence have a ...
... object becomes lustrous from the light thrown back upon it by the mirror of art : and by the aid of the pencil we may be said to touch and handle the objects of sight . The air - drawn visions that hover on the verge of existence have a ...
Pagina 8
... object . Be this as it may , I spared no pains to do my best . If art was long , I thought that life was so too at that moment . I got in the general effect the first day ; and pleased and surprised enough I was at my success . The rest ...
... object . Be this as it may , I spared no pains to do my best . If art was long , I thought that life was so too at that moment . I got in the general effect the first day ; and pleased and surprised enough I was at my success . The rest ...
Pagina 12
... object of continued attention , to have one's likeness multiplied ; and besides his satisfaction in the picture , he had some pride in the artist , though he would rather I should have written a sermon than painted like Rembrandt or ...
... object of continued attention , to have one's likeness multiplied ; and besides his satisfaction in the picture , he had some pride in the artist , though he would rather I should have written a sermon than painted like Rembrandt or ...
Pagina 17
... object ; he is intent , not on the means but the end ; he is taken up , not with the difficulties , but with the triumph over them . As in the case of the anatomist , who over- looks many things in the eagerness of his search after ...
... object ; he is intent , not on the means but the end ; he is taken up , not with the difficulties , but with the triumph over them . As in the case of the anatomist , who over- looks many things in the eagerness of his search after ...
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Pagina 39 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Pagina 179 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Pagina 123 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Pagina 178 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed...
Pagina 391 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Pagina 178 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Pagina 175 - Saturn laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell: Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor...
Pagina 192 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole City to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone...
Pagina 178 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Pagina 233 - Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.