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... seen some of the most celebrated bays of Europe , viz . , Genoa , Naples , Palermo , and Dublin , to all of which I have heard Lyme bay compared , I must still consider , that standing upon high ground some fine summer's day , when the ...
... seen some of the most celebrated bays of Europe , viz . , Genoa , Naples , Palermo , and Dublin , to all of which I have heard Lyme bay compared , I must still consider , that standing upon high ground some fine summer's day , when the ...
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... seen as a favour , one of these was the " Temple des Muses , " engraved , I think , by Picard , but these gods and goddesses never interested me , though the engravings are very fine in their way , whereas I was never tired of looking ...
... seen as a favour , one of these was the " Temple des Muses , " engraved , I think , by Picard , but these gods and goddesses never interested me , though the engravings are very fine in their way , whereas I was never tired of looking ...
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... seen in a sort of relief ; the arching in every direction causes its good effect , and the immense semicircular window is excellent . There are no columns made use of here , lengthwise it is bounded with a single arcade . The effect ...
... seen in a sort of relief ; the arching in every direction causes its good effect , and the immense semicircular window is excellent . There are no columns made use of here , lengthwise it is bounded with a single arcade . The effect ...
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... seen . The fountains are in excellent taste and the whole worthy of admiration . FARNESE . The ceilings here are of very dark wood , highly enriched and ornamented very deep , presenting an antique , massive , rich appearance . In one ...
... seen . The fountains are in excellent taste and the whole worthy of admiration . FARNESE . The ceilings here are of very dark wood , highly enriched and ornamented very deep , presenting an antique , massive , rich appearance . In one ...
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... seen surpassed , her figure is grace itself . Had this man lived some years later when the mechanism of his art was more advanced , he would still , I am convinced , have shone amongst its brightest stars . The landscapes of the Dutch ...
... seen surpassed , her figure is grace itself . Had this man lived some years later when the mechanism of his art was more advanced , he would still , I am convinced , have shone amongst its brightest stars . The landscapes of the Dutch ...
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Page 177 - By its own weight made steadfast and immovable. Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 144 - It is not in the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo, but in that form which is taken from all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and of the muscular strength of the H erodes.
Page 157 - Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
Page 176 - Rock-rooted, stretched athwart the vacancy Its swinging boughs, to each inconstant blast Yielding one only response, at each pause, In most familiar cadence : with the howl, The thunder and the hiss of homeless streams Mingling its solemn song...
Page 177 - And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 157 - Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the distinction between the fine and the useful arts be forgotten. If history were truly told, if life were nobly spent, it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other. In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful.
Page 176 - Its stony jaws, the abrupt mountain breaks, And seems, with its accumulated crags, To overhang the world : for wide expand Beneath the wan stars and descending moon Islanded seas, blue mountains, mighty streams, Dim tracts and vast, robed in the lustrous gloom Of leaden-coloured even, and fiery hills Mingling their flames with twilight, on the verge Of the remote horizon.
Page 209 - Therefore does beauty, which, in relation to actions, as we have seen, comes unsought, and comes because it is unsought, remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect; and then again, in its turn, of the active power. Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.
Page 144 - Apollo ; but in that form which is taken from all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and of the muscular strength of the Hercules. For perfect beauty in any species must combine all the characters which are beautiful in that species. It cannot consist in any one to the exclusion of the rest : no one, therefore, must be predominant, that no one may be deficient.