The Illustrated Catalogue of the Paris International Exhibition: 1862Virtue & Company, Limited, 1862 - 324 страници |
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Страница 307 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question}: of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Страница 30 - There the multitude produce only to give splendour and grace to the despot or the warrior whose slaves they are, and whom they enrich ; here the man who is powerful in the weapons of peace, capital and machinery, uses them to give comfort and enjoyment to the public, whose servant he is, and thus becomes rich while he enriches others with his goods.
Страница 30 - Art labours for the rich alone ; here she works for the poor no less. There the multitude produce only to givo splendour and grace to the despot or the warrior, whose slaves they are, and whom they enrich ; here the man who is powerful in the weapons of peace, capital, and machinery, uses them to give comfort and enjoyment to the public, whose servant he is, and...
Страница 8 - ... it equally imports us to encourage art in its loftier attributes ; since it is admitted that the cultivation of the more exalted branches of design tends to advance the humblest pursuits of industry, while the connexion of art with manufacture has often developed the genius of the greatest masters in design.
Страница ix - The Exhibition building will be erected on a site adjoining the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, and in the immediate neighbourhood of the ground occupied in 1851, on the occasion of the first International Exhibition.
Страница x - Fowke, RE, an officer of skill and experience in the art of construction, who had been employed by Her Majesty's Government in the British Department of the Paris Exhibition of 1855, had framed it so as to meet the many practical defects which experience had shown to exist in the buildings both in Hyde Park and the Champs Elyse'es. On examining Capt.
Страница 314 - ... ignorance, from a tool of despotism, or a ponderous monument of eternal sleep, art emerged into life, motion, and liberty; where situation, climate, national character, religion, manners and government conspired to raise it on that permanent basis, which after the ruins of the fabric itself, still subsists and bids defiance to the ravages of time; as uniform in the principle as various in its applications, the art of the Greeks possessed in itself and propagated, like its chief object Man, the...
Страница 313 - the gods of Hellas have paled before a diviner light ; the great Pan is dead. But we have all some abstract notions of power, beauty, love, joy, song, haunting our minds and illuminating the realities of life ; and if it be the especial province of sculpture to represent these in forms, where shall we find any more perfect and intelligible expression for them than the beautiful impersonations the Greeks have left us?' Goethe, writing from Rome ten years before the arrival of Thorwaldsen, raises the...
Страница 267 - Wrightia atitidysenterica, was found to be very hard in the centre, but soft in the outer portions, and liable to the attacks of insects. On examining this wood under the microscope it gave promise of being suitable for the purpose, from the closeness of texture and the polish left by the chisel in cutting it across the grain, but the uneven quality and the softness of the outer parts showed that it was not fit for engraving. Its chief use is for posts and rice-beaters. Sandalwood (Santalum album)...
Страница 267 - ... thought to be too dear, but on comparing it with boxwood, which sells in England for one penny the square inch, it was found to be cheaper in India than boxwood in England, though it is ten or twelve times the price of any of the other woods that were tried. The Beyr-fruit tree...