The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature, Volume 4American Book Exchange, 1880 |
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... artistic of the Romans appears but faint compared with our own . 66 I cannot find that mountain scenery , which has most attractions of all for many people , ever found any favor with the ancients . As gardens and groves were associated ...
... artistic of the Romans appears but faint compared with our own . 66 I cannot find that mountain scenery , which has most attractions of all for many people , ever found any favor with the ancients . As gardens and groves were associated ...
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... artistic , would give a basis for a perfectly healthy wall paper , which could be put up , in panel , without paste , on a glazed wall , and permit of being taken down , at any time , for cleansing , as easily as a picture . 7. There is ...
... artistic , would give a basis for a perfectly healthy wall paper , which could be put up , in panel , without paste , on a glazed wall , and permit of being taken down , at any time , for cleansing , as easily as a picture . 7. There is ...
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... artistic value ; and their subjects are so different as to show plainly that it is only by chance that they have been placed together . Still , in some cases , they form pen- dants . Those , for instance , at the extreme north and south ...
... artistic value ; and their subjects are so different as to show plainly that it is only by chance that they have been placed together . Still , in some cases , they form pen- dants . Those , for instance , at the extreme north and south ...
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... artistic point of view , is the figure of the Madonna , which probably dates from about the sixth century . She is not associated with the in- fant Christ , but stands alone , upright , and stretching out both her arms in prayer , in ...
... artistic point of view , is the figure of the Madonna , which probably dates from about the sixth century . She is not associated with the in- fant Christ , but stands alone , upright , and stretching out both her arms in prayer , in ...
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... artistic value to the fragments on St. Mark's . But , notwithstanding , we must look on those of St. Mark's as unique , because they are Greek work , and of a kind of which little or nothing else has survived destruction . The great ...
... artistic value to the fragments on St. Mark's . But , notwithstanding , we must look on those of St. Mark's as unique , because they are Greek work , and of a kind of which little or nothing else has survived destruction . The great ...
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Página 118 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 122 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 123 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 122 - Faith, he maunna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that; Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may,— As come it will for a' that,— That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a
Página 104 - Our religion has materialised itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it. But for poetry the idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion to-day is its unconscious poetry.
Página 111 - Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Página 337 - ... assert Eternal Providence, and justify the ways of God to man.
Página 57 - To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Página 59 - I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name, — if ten honest men only, — ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America.
Página 121 - Scripture, They raise a din that in the end Is like to breed a rupture O' -wrath that day. Leeze me on drink! it gies us mair Than either school or college; It kindles wit, it waukens lear, It pangs us fou o