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... letter from Smith recalled his thoughts to Italy . The Italian harvest having failed , a consignment of wheat and flour was sent from the New World to the Old , and put under the charge of one of the Allens of Philadelphia , who offered ...
... letter from Smith recalled his thoughts to Italy . The Italian harvest having failed , a consignment of wheat and flour was sent from the New World to the Old , and put under the charge of one of the Allens of Philadelphia , who offered ...
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... letter to his agents in Philadelphia , shook him by the hand , and wished him a good voyage . Ere he reached his native place , after an absence of eleven months , all the arrangements for his departure had been completed by Smith ; and ...
... letter to his agents in Philadelphia , shook him by the hand , and wished him a good voyage . Ere he reached his native place , after an absence of eleven months , all the arrangements for his departure had been completed by Smith ; and ...
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... letters of introduction . Among the rest was Cardinal Albani , who , though old and blind , had such delicacy of ... letter for your Eminence , and who has come to Italy for the purpose of studying the Fine Arts . " The Cardinal knew ...
... letters of introduction . Among the rest was Cardinal Albani , who , though old and blind , had such delicacy of ... letter for your Eminence , and who has come to Italy for the purpose of studying the Fine Arts . " The Cardinal knew ...
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... letter , and said , " I am instructed to give you unlimited credit ; you will have the goodness to ask for what sum you please . " It is not without cause that Mr. Galt says , " the munifi- cence of the Medici was equalled by these ...
... letter , and said , " I am instructed to give you unlimited credit ; you will have the goodness to ask for what sum you please . " It is not without cause that Mr. Galt says , " the munifi- cence of the Medici was equalled by these ...
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... letter from Mengs made him acquainted with Wilson . Inter- course with artists , and an examination of their works , awakened his ambition : he consulted no one , but took chambers in Bedford - street , Covent Garden , and set up his ...
... letter from Mengs made him acquainted with Wilson . Inter- course with artists , and an examination of their works , awakened his ambition : he consulted no one , but took chambers in Bedford - street , Covent Garden , and set up his ...
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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.