The Royal academy review, a guide to the exhibition of the Royal academy of arts, by the Council of four1858 |
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... head and hands are much too pale . Dante is described by his biographers as a man with a dark olive complexion ; and it would appear that his particu- larly swarthy hue and gloomy counten- ance frightened even the children of Italy ...
... head and hands are much too pale . Dante is described by his biographers as a man with a dark olive complexion ; and it would appear that his particu- larly swarthy hue and gloomy counten- ance frightened even the children of Italy ...
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... head on the canvass that is even respectably drawn or decently painted ? Look at the figures on the right , especially the lady who has her back turned to us ! We had always an impression that our female royalty and aristocracy were ...
... head on the canvass that is even respectably drawn or decently painted ? Look at the figures on the right , especially the lady who has her back turned to us ! We had always an impression that our female royalty and aristocracy were ...
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... head of the child is natural , and the hand of the woman is well drawn , but the work is not worthy of Mr. Cope . The dress wants relief owing to the similarity of the colour of the back- ground . The folds of the drapery over the ...
... head of the child is natural , and the hand of the woman is well drawn , but the work is not worthy of Mr. Cope . The dress wants relief owing to the similarity of the colour of the back- ground . The folds of the drapery over the ...
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... heads of nearly all the Levites behind Joash are separate and distinct , whereas , in a scene of this kind , many faces would almost cover others , and we should see merely the eyes of some heads peer- How ing behind those in the front ...
... heads of nearly all the Levites behind Joash are separate and distinct , whereas , in a scene of this kind , many faces would almost cover others , and we should see merely the eyes of some heads peer- How ing behind those in the front ...
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... heads , too , of these men have grown since they donned their helmets , for the casque does not extend beyond the hair ... head , with her back turned to us . She has a poverty stricken foot , and is altogether a bad figure , though her ...
... heads , too , of these men have grown since they donned their helmets , for the casque does not extend beyond the hair ... head , with her back turned to us . She has a poverty stricken foot , and is altogether a bad figure , though her ...
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Page 53 - He cannot make his hero talk like a great man ; he must make him look like one. For which reason, he ought to be well studied in the analysis of those circumstances which constitute dignity of appearance in real life.
Page 11 - Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Page 72 - Rowlands' Kalydor, FOR THE SKIN AND COMPLEXION, Is unequalled for its rare and inestimable qualities. The radiant bloom it imparts to the Cheek, the softness and delicacy which it induces of the Hands and Anns, its capability of soothing irritation, and removing cutaneous defects. discolorations, and all unsightly appearances, reader it INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY TOILET. Price 4s. 6d. and 8s. 6d, per bottle. Rowlands...
Page 105 - O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Page 55 - ... for others, that we think on maist pleasantly. And the thoughts that ye hae intervened to spare the puir thing's life will be sweeter in that hour, come when it may, than if a word of your mouth could hang the haill Porteous mob at the tail of ae tow.
Page 72 - ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, A delightfully fragrant and transparent preparation for the Hair, and as an invigorator and beautifier beyond all precedent.
Page 21 - At church, in silks and satins new, With hoop of monstrous size; She never slumbered in her pew But when she shut her eyes.
Page 69 - An inferior artist is unwilling that any part of his industry should be lost upon the spectator. He takes as much pains to discover, as the greater artist does to conceal, the marks of his subordinate assiduity.
Page 69 - In works of the lower kind, everything appears studied, and encumbered; it is all boastful art and open affectation. The ignorant often part from such pictures with wonder in their mouths, and indifference in their hearts. But it is not enough in invention that the artist should restrain and keep under all the inferior parts of his subject; he must sometimes. deviate from vulgar and strict historical truth, in pursuing the grandeur of his design. How much the great style...
Page 61 - HAMLET. To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?