The Edinburgh Review, Volume 123A. and C. Black, 1866 |
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... less reputation . Whether it was that English painters would not master the difficulties of the fresco process , or that their skill in oils interfered with a new and different method ; that the subjects assigned them were foreign to ...
... less reputation . Whether it was that English painters would not master the difficulties of the fresco process , or that their skill in oils interfered with a new and different method ; that the subjects assigned them were foreign to ...
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... less than half that time ? We fear that even rain would not have preserved them . Had the early frescoes faded at this rate there is little doubt that the art itself would have perished . Living three hundred and fifty years after ...
... less than half that time ? We fear that even rain would not have preserved them . Had the early frescoes faded at this rate there is little doubt that the art itself would have perished . Living three hundred and fifty years after ...
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... less hazardous to clean a fresco than an oil - painting . * Mr. Vivian thought the climate of London very bad for frescoes ; in Venice the salt of the atmo- sphere had proved destructive to themf ; and oil - paintings were Mr. Thomas ...
... less hazardous to clean a fresco than an oil - painting . * Mr. Vivian thought the climate of London very bad for frescoes ; in Venice the salt of the atmo- sphere had proved destructive to themf ; and oil - paintings were Mr. Thomas ...
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... less completely suc- cessful . For whatever the result may be , these eminent men have willingly devoted the best years of their lives to the work , which was pressed upon them by the late Prince Consort and the Government in the name ...
... less completely suc- cessful . For whatever the result may be , these eminent men have willingly devoted the best years of their lives to the work , which was pressed upon them by the late Prince Consort and the Government in the name ...
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... less exacting than before , based on the recent success of the French , and to insist upon their immediate acceptance . Thus Mazarin once more was made the envoy of France in an arduous mission by the most clear - sighted states- man of ...
... less exacting than before , based on the recent success of the French , and to insist upon their immediate acceptance . Thus Mazarin once more was made the envoy of France in an arduous mission by the most clear - sighted states- man of ...
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Page 178 - This royal infant, — heaven still move about her! — Though in her cradle, yet now promises Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings, Which time shall bring to ripeness. She shall be (But few now living can behold that goodness) A pattern to all princes living with her, And all that shall succeed...
Page 381 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 368 - Of his chamber in the east. Meanwhile, welcome joy and feast, Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.
Page 382 - Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing die.
Page 169 - At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 379 - Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. — • There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 382 - Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing: To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung ; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.
Page 369 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
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Page 372 - We will return no more ;' And all at once they sang, ' Our island home Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.