Lectures and Essays on Various Subjects: Historical, Topographical, and ArtisticLongmans, 1858 - 308 pages |
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... become articulate Painting , for it can cause the most vivid images to flash at once upon the mind : and it is , perhaps , because poetical descriptions afford play to the imagina- tion and to the natural activity of thought , that they ...
... become articulate Painting , for it can cause the most vivid images to flash at once upon the mind : and it is , perhaps , because poetical descriptions afford play to the imagina- tion and to the natural activity of thought , that they ...
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... become if the cool pearly tint of morning was not thrown upon the sea , the verdant brightness of spring or the gorgeous hues of autumn seen on the woods , or the rich glow of sunset in the sky ? It is colour that clothes the design in ...
... become if the cool pearly tint of morning was not thrown upon the sea , the verdant brightness of spring or the gorgeous hues of autumn seen on the woods , or the rich glow of sunset in the sky ? It is colour that clothes the design in ...
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... becomes the living evidence of the manners , the know- ledge , and the aspirations of a people , whether read in the porticoes of Palmyra or the cathedrals of Christendom . We see this glorious art impressed by the national genius of ...
... becomes the living evidence of the manners , the know- ledge , and the aspirations of a people , whether read in the porticoes of Palmyra or the cathedrals of Christendom . We see this glorious art impressed by the national genius of ...
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... become extinct . So , the earliest musical style was altogether vocal , the second is equally adapted to voices and instruments , and the third is peculiarly an instru- mental style . The most important change that has taken place in ...
... become extinct . So , the earliest musical style was altogether vocal , the second is equally adapted to voices and instruments , and the third is peculiarly an instru- mental style . The most important change that has taken place in ...
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... become the handmaids of her martial spirit . Poetry was not cultivated until its charms reflected the genius of a Court ; Architecture had not then begun to employ the magnificence of order and the grace of proportion on any buildings ...
... become the handmaids of her martial spirit . Poetry was not cultivated until its charms reflected the genius of a Court ; Architecture had not then begun to employ the magnificence of order and the grace of proportion on any buildings ...
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Page 123 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 12 - 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, 670 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 10 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 10 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 54 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle; And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
Page 298 - Henry the Eighth, by the grace of God King of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England, and also of Ireland, in earth the Supreme Head; and that the said style, &c.
Page 116 - The paths trodden by the footsteps of ages were broken up ; old things were passing away, and the faith and the life of ten centuries were dissolving like a dream. Chivalry was dying; the abbey and the castle were soon together to crumble into ruins; and all the forms, desires, beliefs, convictions of the old world were passing away, never to return.
Page 165 - In Cumnor Hall so lone and drear ; And many a heartfelt sigh she heaved, And let fall many a bitter tear.
Page 52 - The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees ; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays...
Page 121 - Instead of kitchen-stuff, some cry A Gospel-preaching Ministry ; And some for old suits, coats, or cloak, No Surplices nor Service-book...