The Miscellaneous Works, Volumen1H.C. Baird, 1854 |
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... never think at all , or else who have accustomed themselves to brood invariably on abstract ideas , that never feel ennui . To give one instance more , and then I will have done with this rambling discourse . One of my first attempts ...
... never think at all , or else who have accustomed themselves to brood invariably on abstract ideas , that never feel ennui . To give one instance more , and then I will have done with this rambling discourse . One of my first attempts ...
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... never did any thing afterwards . I never shall forget conning over the Catalogue which a friend lent me just before I set out . The pictures , the names of the painters , seemed to relish in the mouth . There was one of Titian's ...
... never did any thing afterwards . I never shall forget conning over the Catalogue which a friend lent me just before I set out . The pictures , the names of the painters , seemed to relish in the mouth . There was one of Titian's ...
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... never looked at any thing but megiips and handling , he never would have put the soul of life and manners into his pictures as he has done . Another objection is , that the in- strumental parts of the art , the means , the first ...
... never looked at any thing but megiips and handling , he never would have put the soul of life and manners into his pictures as he has done . Another objection is , that the in- strumental parts of the art , the means , the first ...
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... never come to pass at all , that is , may never be embodied into actual existence in the whole course of events , whereas the past has certainly existed once , has received the stamp of truth , and left an image of itself behind . It is ...
... never come to pass at all , that is , may never be embodied into actual existence in the whole course of events , whereas the past has certainly existed once , has received the stamp of truth , and left an image of itself behind . It is ...
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... never was young because he is grown old , or never lived because he is now dead . The length or agreeableness of a journey does not depend on the few last steps of it ; nor is the size of a building to be judged of from the last stone ...
... never was young because he is grown old , or never lived because he is now dead . The length or agreeableness of a journey does not depend on the few last steps of it ; nor is the size of a building to be judged of from the last stone ...
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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.