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... pencil are not always willing or able to hold the pen , and artists of literary attainments are either more profitably employed , or prudent enough to avoid an undertaking where there is more certainty of censure than of praise . I may ...
... pencil are not always willing or able to hold the pen , and artists of literary attainments are either more profitably employed , or prudent enough to avoid an undertaking where there is more certainty of censure than of praise . I may ...
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... pencil to embody the conceptions of genius . The artist has to seek for all this in the accumulated mass of professional knowledge which time has gathered for his instruction : and with his best wisdom , and his happiest fortune , he ...
... pencil to embody the conceptions of genius . The artist has to seek for all this in the accumulated mass of professional knowledge which time has gathered for his instruction : and with his best wisdom , and his happiest fortune , he ...
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... pencil , with a taste improved and a mind enlarged , and great wealth - whoever appeared willing to work in her spirit , she was ready to welcome and reward him . The genius of Holbein was too literal and mechanical for this . He was ...
... pencil , with a taste improved and a mind enlarged , and great wealth - whoever appeared willing to work in her spirit , she was ready to welcome and reward him . The genius of Holbein was too literal and mechanical for this . He was ...
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... pencil . The younger Oliver , too , made himself known about this period by numerous miniature portraits of the chief persons about court . This branch of art was encouraged by the prevailing fashion of wearing miniatures richly set in ...
... pencil . The younger Oliver , too , made himself known about this period by numerous miniature portraits of the chief persons about court . This branch of art was encouraged by the prevailing fashion of wearing miniatures richly set in ...
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... pencil we owe many portraits of the eminent persons who embellished or embroiled the most unfortunate of English reigns . " Vandyke's pictures , " observes Barry , " are evidently painted at once , with sometimes a little retouching ...
... pencil we owe many portraits of the eminent persons who embellished or embroiled the most unfortunate of English reigns . " Vandyke's pictures , " observes Barry , " are evidently painted at once , with sometimes a little retouching ...
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Page 309 - Little Lamb, who made thee ? Dost thou know who made thee ? Gave thee life and bid thee feed, By the stream and o'er the mead ? Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright ? Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice? Little Lamb, who made thee ? Dost thou know who made thee ? Little Lamb, I'll tell thee, Little Lamb, I'll tell thee: He is called by thy name, For He calls Himself a Lamb. He is meek, and He is mild; He became a little child. I a child, and thou...
Page 277 - What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee...
Page 277 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
Page 276 - Whether in Heaven ye wander fair, Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air Where the melodious winds have birth...
Page 281 - PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!" So I piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that song again,
Page 210 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 281 - Pipe a song about a Lamb!" So I piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that song again"; So I piped: he wept to hear. "Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read.
Page 209 - The only dedication I ever made was to my brother, because I loved him better than most other men. He is since dead. Permit me to inscribe this Poem to you.
Page xxxiv - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Page 302 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning...