Manual of the Fine Arts, Critical and Historical: With an Introduction by D. Huntington, M.A.A. S. Barnes & Company, 1879 - 476 páginas |
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... less sensual , more benevolent , more alive to the beauties of nature and truth , should be as generally cultivated as possible . The following work is intended to diffuse a taste for such studies , by gathering into a small compass ...
... less sensual , more benevolent , more alive to the beauties of nature and truth , should be as generally cultivated as possible . The following work is intended to diffuse a taste for such studies , by gathering into a small compass ...
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... less indispensable , though not less valuable , arts of architecture , sculpture , and painting . So many volumes were attributed to him , that no human being could possibly have composed them . All the successive improvements in ...
... less indispensable , though not less valuable , arts of architecture , sculpture , and painting . So many volumes were attributed to him , that no human being could possibly have composed them . All the successive improvements in ...
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... less importunate cravings of his intelectual nature called for gratification . However long , Adam and Eve may have dwelt in the garden of delights , before the fall , we can hardly suppose that they turned their attention in any way to ...
... less importunate cravings of his intelectual nature called for gratification . However long , Adam and Eve may have dwelt in the garden of delights , before the fall , we can hardly suppose that they turned their attention in any way to ...
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... less toilsome seeking after pleasure , are not sufficient to fill the desires of the human soul . Neither , indeed , can earth , with all its stores of nature and art , give it a safe resting - place ; its goal is beyond the confines of ...
... less toilsome seeking after pleasure , are not sufficient to fill the desires of the human soul . Neither , indeed , can earth , with all its stores of nature and art , give it a safe resting - place ; its goal is beyond the confines of ...
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... less imbued with its peculiar charac- teristics , which are , vivacity and truth of colour , perfect distribution of light and shade , boldness of touch , and correct eye for nature . They sought out those scenes in landscape , as well ...
... less imbued with its peculiar charac- teristics , which are , vivacity and truth of colour , perfect distribution of light and shade , boldness of touch , and correct eye for nature . They sought out those scenes in landscape , as well ...
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Página 449 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
Página 19 - A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more...
Página 265 - And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men ; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha : and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha. he revived, and stood up on his feet.
Página 15 - Delightful Scenes, whether in Nature, Painting, or Poetry, have a kindly Influence on the Body, as well as the Mind, and not only serve to clear and brighten the Imagination, but are able to disperse Grief and Melancholy, and to set the Animal Spirits in pleasing and agreeable Motions.
Página 18 - own exceeding great reward;' it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Página 449 - But I will punish home: No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Página 440 - full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
Página 146 - I have endeavoured to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer ; my picture is my stage, my men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show.
Página 455 - The chorus in which that opera abounds gives the parterre frequent opportunities of joining in concert with the stage. This inclination of the audience to sing along with the actors, so prevails with them, that I have sometimes known the performer on the stage do no more in a celebrated song, than the clerk of a parish church, who serves only to raise the psalm, and is afterwards drowned in the music of the congregation.
Página 155 - I proceeded to copy some of those excellent works. I viewed them again and again ; I even affected to feel their merit and admire them more than I really did.