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... a Montmorency feel if a Montmorency had not the means of living in the highest circles , or were to embrace any profession but that of a courtier , a man of the sword , or a dignitary of the church ? Not even the study of the law ...
... a Montmorency feel if a Montmorency had not the means of living in the highest circles , or were to embrace any profession but that of a courtier , a man of the sword , or a dignitary of the church ? Not even the study of the law ...
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The eminent painters and sculptors of Italy , with Raphael and Michael Angelo at their head , had filled the churches and palaces as well as the hearts of the people with divine subjects - saints , legends , miracles .
The eminent painters and sculptors of Italy , with Raphael and Michael Angelo at their head , had filled the churches and palaces as well as the hearts of the people with divine subjects - saints , legends , miracles .
Page 118
... and the early churches of France and England are covered round and round with miracles wrought by the saints -- the sufferings of the martyrs - legends of the church - devout processions and religious ceremouies .
... and the early churches of France and England are covered round and round with miracles wrought by the saints -- the sufferings of the martyrs - legends of the church - devout processions and religious ceremouies .
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As we come along the stream of our history , the beauty of church architecture increases ; and the devout meaning and skilful execution of its accompanying sculptures become more and more remarkable . The return of the Crusaders brought ...
As we come along the stream of our history , the beauty of church architecture increases ; and the devout meaning and skilful execution of its accompanying sculptures become more and more remarkable . The return of the Crusaders brought ...
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Down to the time of the final contest of the people with the church of Rome a love of a sculpture prevailed ; domestic monuments crowded our cathes drals ; and , in the chapel of Henry the Seventh alone , several thousands of figures ...
Down to the time of the final contest of the people with the church of Rome a love of a sculpture prevailed ; domestic monuments crowded our cathes drals ; and , in the chapel of Henry the Seventh alone , several thousands of figures ...
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Page 156 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 92 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Page 356 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Page 139 - Augustus at Rome was for building renown'd, And of marble he left what of brick he had found ; But is not our Nash, too, a very great master ? — He finds us all brick and he leaves us all plaster.
Page 250 - Fathom ; or to the terrible description of a sea-engagement, in which Roderick Random sits chained and exposed upon the poop, without the power of motion or exertion, during the carnage of a tremendous engagement. Upon many other occasions, Smollett's descriptions ascend to the sublime ; and, in general, there is an air of romance in his writings, which raises his narratives above the level and easy course of ordinary life. He was, like a preeminent poet of our own day, a searcher of dark bosoms,...
Page 249 - ... such, had it never crossed the press. And it is with concern we add our sincere belief, that the fine picture of frankness and generosity exhibited in that fictitious character has had as few imitators as the career of his follies. Let it not be supposed that we are indifferent to morality, because we treat with scorn that affectation which, while in common life it connives at the open practice of libertinism, pretends to detest the memory of an author who painted life as it was, with all its...
Page 219 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Page 233 - More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.