The Miscellaneous Works, Volumen1H.C. Baird, 1854 |
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... effect to subtle distinctions and trains of thought ; so that I shall be considered as too metaphysical by the careless reader , while by the more severe and scrupulous in- quirer my style will be complained of as too light and ...
... effect to subtle distinctions and trains of thought ; so that I shall be considered as too metaphysical by the careless reader , while by the more severe and scrupulous in- quirer my style will be complained of as too light and ...
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... effect of the motes dancing in the setting sun . At another time , a friend coming into his painting - room , when he was sitting on the ground in a melancholy posture , observed that his picture looked like a landscape after a shower ...
... effect of the motes dancing in the setting sun . At another time , a friend coming into his painting - room , when he was sitting on the ground in a melancholy posture , observed that his picture looked like a landscape after a shower ...
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... effect the first day ; and pleased and surprised enough I was at my success . The rest was a work of time - of weeks and months ( if need were ) , of patient toil and careful finishing . I had seen an old head by Rembrandt at Burleigh ...
... effect the first day ; and pleased and surprised enough I was at my success . The rest was a work of time - of weeks and months ( if need were ) , of patient toil and careful finishing . I had seen an old head by Rembrandt at Burleigh ...
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... effect , and I thought it worth my while to give it in the picture . There was a gorgeous effect of light and shade : but there was a delicacy as well as depth in the chiaro . scuro , which I was bound to follow into all its dim and ...
... effect , and I thought it worth my while to give it in the picture . There was a gorgeous effect of light and shade : but there was a delicacy as well as depth in the chiaro . scuro , which I was bound to follow into all its dim and ...
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... effect , and I thought it worth my while to give it in the picture . There was a gorgeous effect of light and shade : but there was a delicacy as well as depth in the chiaro . scuro , which I was bound to follow into all its dim and ...
... effect , and I thought it worth my while to give it in the picture . There was a gorgeous effect of light and shade : but there was a delicacy as well as depth in the chiaro . scuro , which I was bound to follow into all its dim and ...
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Página 141 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Página 247 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Página 245 - That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew : Nor did I wonder at the...
Página 67 - To His Coy Mistress Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime; We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Should'st rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain.
Página 97 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it.
Página 187 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Página 165 - The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer ; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit ; The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
Página 49 - Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to-night. The wind blows out, the bubble dies ; The spring entombed in autumn lies ; The dew dries up, the star is shot ; The flight is past — and man forgot.
Página 247 - Her face was veiled ; yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear as in no face with more delight. But, oh ! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Página 97 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.