Life and Letters of William Bewick (artist).Hurst and Blackett, 1871 |
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... SOMERSET HOUSE - THE BRITISH INSTITUTION - SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE - DR . BIRK- BECK - ARRANGEMENTS FOR JOURNEY- MR . LE MESURIER -LETTERS FROM GULF OF GENOA GENOA - FROM GENOA - TO PISA - THE VINE IN ITALY FARM - HOUSES AND COT- TAGES ...
... SOMERSET HOUSE - THE BRITISH INSTITUTION - SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE - DR . BIRK- BECK - ARRANGEMENTS FOR JOURNEY- MR . LE MESURIER -LETTERS FROM GULF OF GENOA GENOA - FROM GENOA - TO PISA - THE VINE IN ITALY FARM - HOUSES AND COT- TAGES ...
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... , in his grandiloquent manner , utter some startling expressions about the uselessness of poetry , ' he was desirous to see more of a person who could propound with such importance so novel SOMERSET HOUSE . 141 a proposition , and wished ...
... , in his grandiloquent manner , utter some startling expressions about the uselessness of poetry , ' he was desirous to see more of a person who could propound with such importance so novel SOMERSET HOUSE . 141 a proposition , and wished ...
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... Somerset House . This celebrated surgeon generally treated the artists , his hearers , with some exhibition of novelty or interest , and his lectures were con- sequently always crowded . Once he had six or eight naked Life - guardsmen ...
... Somerset House . This celebrated surgeon generally treated the artists , his hearers , with some exhibition of novelty or interest , and his lectures were con- sequently always crowded . Once he had six or eight naked Life - guardsmen ...
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... Somerset House , some one passed us quickly , throwing his capacious mantle over his shoulders with an air of affected consequence . Hazlitt observed , ― That will be some one of the mighty R.A.'s , but , depend upon it , he will never ...
... Somerset House , some one passed us quickly , throwing his capacious mantle over his shoulders with an air of affected consequence . Hazlitt observed , ― That will be some one of the mighty R.A.'s , but , depend upon it , he will never ...
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... Somerset House is the first to be spoken of , not from its superior claims on the score of merit , but because 276 SOMERSET HOUSE . it is the most crowded both.
... Somerset House is the first to be spoken of , not from its superior claims on the score of merit , but because 276 SOMERSET HOUSE . it is the most crowded both.
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Страница 184 - O wha is this has don this deid, This ill deid don to me, To send me out this time o' the yeir, To sail upon the se!
Страница 49 - And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Страница 161 - Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis beloved by many: Other joys Are but toys, Only this Lawful is, For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure.
Страница 160 - ... creek: We all pearls scorn, Save what the dewy morn Congeals upon each little spire of grass, Which careless shepherds beat down as they pass: And gold ne'er here appears, Save what the yellow Ceres bears. Blest silent groves ! Oh may you be For ever Mirth's best nursery!
Страница 162 - Aurora's peeping: Drink a cup to wash our eyes, Leave the sluggard sleeping: Then we go To and fro, With our knacks At our backs, To such streams As the Thames, If we have the leisure.
Страница 160 - Our hearts with loyal flames; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty.
Страница 185 - Well! If the bard was weather-wise, who made The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence, This night, so tranquil now, will not go hence Unroused by winds, that ply a busier trade Than those which mould yon cloud in lazy flakes...
Страница 92 - His eye also does justice to Rembrandt's fine and masterly effects. In the way in which that artist works something out of nothing, and transforms the stump of a tree, a common figure, into an ideal object by the gorgeous light and shade thrown upon it...
Страница 240 - A TEMPLE to Friendship," said Laura, enchanted, " I '11 build in this garden — the thought is divine !" Her temple was built, and she now only wanted An image of friendship to place on the shrine. She flew to a sculptor, who set down before her A Friendship, the fairest his art could invent, But so cold and so dull, that the youthful adorer Saw plainly this was not the idol she meant.
Страница 92 - But he sometimes takes a higher tone, and gives his mind fair play. We have known him enlarge with a noble intelligence and enthusiasm on Nicolas Poussin's fine landscape-compositions, pointing out the unity of design that pervades them, the superintending mind, the imaginative principle that brings all to bear on the same end ; and declaring he would not give a rush for any landscape that did not express the time of day, the climate, the period of the world it was meant to illustrate, or had not...