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... equal to the original . There was the Transfiguration too . With what awe I saw it in my mind's eye , and was overshadowed with the spirit of the artist ! Not to have been disappointed with these works afterwards , was the highest ...
... equal to the original . There was the Transfiguration too . With what awe I saw it in my mind's eye , and was overshadowed with the spirit of the artist ! Not to have been disappointed with these works afterwards , was the highest ...
Pagina 21
... equals . I saw him many years ago , when he treated the masterly sketches he had by him ( one in particular of the group of citizens in Shakespear ' swallowing the tailor's news ' ) as ' bastards of his genius , not his children ; ' and ...
... equals . I saw him many years ago , when he treated the masterly sketches he had by him ( one in particular of the group of citizens in Shakespear ' swallowing the tailor's news ' ) as ' bastards of his genius , not his children ; ' and ...
Pagina 81
... equal another.1 But the artist undertakes to imitate another , or to do what nature has done , and this it appears is more difficult , viz . to copy what she has set before us in the face of nature or human face divine , ' entire and ...
... equal another.1 But the artist undertakes to imitate another , or to do what nature has done , and this it appears is more difficult , viz . to copy what she has set before us in the face of nature or human face divine , ' entire and ...
Pagina 87
... equal power and skill , quickness , and judgment . He could either out - wit his an- tagonist by finesse , or beat him by main strength . Sometimes , when he seemed preparing to send the ball with the full swing of his arm , he would by ...
... equal power and skill , quickness , and judgment . He could either out - wit his an- tagonist by finesse , or beat him by main strength . Sometimes , when he seemed preparing to send the ball with the full swing of his arm , he would by ...
Pagina 88
... equal , but nobody second to him . It is supposed that he could give any other player half the game , or beat him with his left hand . His service was tremendous . He once played Woodward and Meredith together ( two of the best players ...
... equal , but nobody second to him . It is supposed that he could give any other player half the game , or beat him with his left hand . His service was tremendous . He once played Woodward and Meredith together ( two of the best players ...
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Pagina 99 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them ; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, Had I not filed (') my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Pagina 41 - 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 125 - 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 181 - 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 31 - So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself...
Pagina 177 - 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 194 - 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 367 - Vice thus abused, demands a nation's care ; This calls the Church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well...
Pagina 297 - Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
Pagina 393 - 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