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... portrait- painters of modern times , and the initiator in " landscape " of unconventional and natural methods versus pseudo- classicism and sterile formality ; and William Blake , the visionary poet - painter - equally at home in ...
... portrait- painters of modern times , and the initiator in " landscape " of unconventional and natural methods versus pseudo- classicism and sterile formality ; and William Blake , the visionary poet - painter - equally at home in ...
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... portraits . The likeness of Jane Shore will enable us to form some notion of the existing skill in the art . Tradition ... portrait at Eton , " is remarkably large , her mouth and the rest of her features small , her hair of the admired ...
... portraits . The likeness of Jane Shore will enable us to form some notion of the existing skill in the art . Tradition ... portrait at Eton , " is remarkably large , her mouth and the rest of her features small , her hair of the admired ...
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... portrait beautiful both in conception and execution — a work seem- ingly beyond the power of our artists , at that period , to produce . He probably thought it excellent , because others with which he compared it were utterly abominable ...
... portrait beautiful both in conception and execution — a work seem- ingly beyond the power of our artists , at that period , to produce . He probably thought it excellent , because others with which he compared it were utterly abominable ...
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... portraits of the fairest young ladies in his kingdom , that , in case of the frailty of a queen , he might go to his ... portrait of a favourite lady for the king , a great lord unexpectedly found his way into the chamber . The painter ...
... portraits of the fairest young ladies in his kingdom , that , in case of the frailty of a queen , he might go to his ... portrait of a favourite lady for the king , a great lord unexpectedly found his way into the chamber . The painter ...
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... portraits . " Holbein died of the plague in 1554. His works have sometimes an air of stiffness ; but they have ... portrait at a few sittings . He was gay and joyous , lived freely , and spent his pension of two hundred florins and ...
... portraits . " Holbein died of the plague in 1554. His works have sometimes an air of stiffness ; but they have ... portrait at a few sittings . He was gay and joyous , lived freely , and spent his pension of two hundred florins and ...
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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...