The Edinburgh Review, Volume 123A. and C. Black, 1866 |
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... Living three hundred and fifty years after Raphael , what inducement should we have had to master such a difficult process which had not left us any traces of superior advantage ? We should have known as much of the early frescoes as we ...
... Living three hundred and fifty years after Raphael , what inducement should we have had to master such a difficult process which had not left us any traces of superior advantage ? We should have known as much of the early frescoes as we ...
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... living form , ' was dressed in the national costume of ancient Germany , a dress which was then forbidden in Munich by royal decree . He danced with all the young German ladies , and with the artists ' * In Raczynski's History it is ...
... living form , ' was dressed in the national costume of ancient Germany , a dress which was then forbidden in Munich by royal decree . He danced with all the young German ladies , and with the artists ' * In Raczynski's History it is ...
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... living repre- sentatives of zoology and botany . The Geological Museum has taken charge of geology if not of mineralogy . The Museum of the Commissioners of Patents and the Institute of Civil Engineers have appropriated objects of ...
... living repre- sentatives of zoology and botany . The Geological Museum has taken charge of geology if not of mineralogy . The Museum of the Commissioners of Patents and the Institute of Civil Engineers have appropriated objects of ...
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... living artists . But in the present constitution of the Royal Academy all the vices and evils of irresponsible management by a close self - elected body have reached the highest pitch , insomuch that it appears to us to have forfeited ...
... living artists . But in the present constitution of the Royal Academy all the vices and evils of irresponsible management by a close self - elected body have reached the highest pitch , insomuch that it appears to us to have forfeited ...
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... living plants nor the hortus siccus can exhibit . Thus at Kew the nation possesses a most successful exhibition of the products of the vegetable world worthy of the country . The limitation of purpose and the completeness with which it ...
... living plants nor the hortus siccus can exhibit . Thus at Kew the nation possesses a most successful exhibition of the products of the vegetable world worthy of the country . The limitation of purpose and the completeness with which it ...
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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...
Page 156 - Shakespeare was godfather to one of Ben Jonson's children, and, after the christening, being in a deep study, Jonson came to cheer him up, and asked him why he was so melancholy. ' No faith, Ben,' says he, ' not I, but I have been considering a great while what should be the fittest gift for me to bestow upon my godchild, and I have resolved at last.' ' I prythee, what ? ' says he. ' I* faith, Ben, I'll e'en give him a dozen good Latin (latten) spoons, and thou shalt translate them.
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.