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... employed to embellish life , to preserve voluptuous images , and add to the sensual gratifications of man . For this we classed it among vain and merely ornamental things , and excluded it from among us . But this is not the principle ...
... employed to embellish life , to preserve voluptuous images , and add to the sensual gratifications of man . For this we classed it among vain and merely ornamental things , and excluded it from among us . But this is not the principle ...
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... employ his powers on subjects holy and pure . The grave simplicity of the Quaker con- tinued to the last in the looks and manners of the artist , and the moral rectitude and internal purity of the man were diffused through all his ...
... employ his powers on subjects holy and pure . The grave simplicity of the Quaker con- tinued to the last in the looks and manners of the artist , and the moral rectitude and internal purity of the man were diffused through all his ...
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... employed in finishing those works , he had the good fortune to be introduced to Dr. Johnson and Mr. Burke . Johnson he admired much , and found civil and even kind . Burke also was in- dulgent ; but our artist conceived there was an air ...
... employed in finishing those works , he had the good fortune to be introduced to Dr. Johnson and Mr. Burke . Johnson he admired much , and found civil and even kind . Burke also was in- dulgent ; but our artist conceived there was an air ...
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... employing his time , can hardly be expected to re - read his discourses . So regular were West's hours of labour , and so carefully did he calculate his time , that to describe one day of his life is to describe years . He rose early ...
... employing his time , can hardly be expected to re - read his discourses . So regular were West's hours of labour , and so carefully did he calculate his time , that to describe one day of his life is to describe years . He rose early ...
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... fifteen years old- tradition is no accurate observer of dates - a book- seller in Cork had such confidence in his powers , that he employed him to make the designs — some add the etchings - for a small volume of tales BARRY . 57.
... fifteen years old- tradition is no accurate observer of dates - a book- seller in Cork had such confidence in his powers , that he employed him to make the designs — some add the etchings - for a small volume of tales BARRY . 57.
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Page 126 - 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 131 - 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 150 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning...
Page 125 - 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 126 - 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 142 - This is an awful thing to say to oil painters ; they may call it madness, but it is true. All the genuine old little pictures, called cabinet pictures, are in fresco and not in oil.
Page 141 - Colouring does not depend on where the Colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on Form or Outline. On where that is put; where that is wrong, the Colouring never can be right; and it is always wrong in Titian and Correggio, Rubens and Rembrandt.
Page 232 - Peter's, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramante and his successors, he concentrated ; suspended the cupola, and to the most complex gave the air of the most simple of edifices.
Page 143 - The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations: as one age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight, but to immortals only the same; for we see the same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men; nothing new occurs in identical existence; Accident ever varies, Substance can never suffer change nor decay. Of Chaucer's characters, as described in his Canterbury Tales...
Page 143 - Belvidere, and all the grand works of ancient art. They were executed in a very superior style to those justly admired copies, being with their accompaniments terrific and grand in the highest degree. The Artist has endeavoured to emulate the grandeur of those seen in his vision, and to apply it to modern Heroes, on a smaller scale.