Nature and Art, Volume 1Day., 1866 |
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Adelina Patti admirable ailanthus amongst ancient animal appear artist Atropos Augsburg Basle beautiful birds building called character charming colour curious decoration deer doubt drama Eidophusikon England English exhibition feet fish flowers Flying Fish France French gallery gamboge garden give glazing grand Greek ground hand head Herr Holbein inches insect interesting island kind lady lake larvæ leaves light look Loutherbourg Marlotte matter ment NATURE AND ART night opera ornament Osiris Outer Hebrides painted painter palace Paris pass perhaps picture piece Pitch Lake plant plate portion portrait present produced quagga raw umber remarkable rocks Roman Royal Royal Artillery scene season seen side sketch sneezing specimens stone surface Tablinum taste temple theatre tint tion trees Velabrum walls Welwitschia mirabilis whilst whole wild wood Xenophon young
Populaire passages
Pagina 62 - WOMEN are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end, therefore, that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected an Academy for the training up of young women in the Exercise of the Fan, according to the most fashionable airs and motions that are now practised at court.
Pagina 63 - Why then, take no note of him, but let him go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
Pagina 209 - Prince of peace ! Hail, the Sun of righteousness ! Light and life to all He brings, Risen with healing in His wings : Mild He lays His glory by, Born that man no more may die ; Born to raise the sons of earth ; Born to give them second birth.
Pagina 31 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Pagina 157 - When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ;Then lies him down the lubber fiend. And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Pagina 172 - The Tower of Babel, not yet finished. St. George in box : his arm scarce long enough, but will be in a condition to stick the dragon by next April. A green dragon of the same, with a tail of ground-ivy for the present.
Pagina 140 - Or like a larger jug, that some men call A Bellarmine, but we a Conscience ; Whereon the lewder hand of pagan workman Over the proud ambitious head hath carved An idol large, with beard episcopal, Making the vessel look like tyrant Eglon.
Pagina 62 - Handle your fans, Unfurl your fans, Discharge your fans, Ground your fans, Recover your fans, Flutter your fans. By the right observation of these few plain words of command, a woman of a tolerable genius, who...
Pagina 217 - Myself will search our planted grounds at home, For downy peaches, and the glossy plum; And thrash the chestnuts in the neighb'ring grove, Such as my Amaryllis us'd to love.
Pagina 140 - And with honest old stingo was soaking his clay, His breath-doors of life on a sudden were shut, And he died full as big as a Dorchester butt. " His body, when long in the ground it had lain, And time into clay had...