Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 94W. Blackwood & Sons, 1863 |
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Page 65
... manner must we be content to explain the fact already stated , that , following upon a year of jubilee , art has this season again sunk to its former level . Yet for a series of years , given to our though our painters , sculptors , ar ...
... manner must we be content to explain the fact already stated , that , following upon a year of jubilee , art has this season again sunk to its former level . Yet for a series of years , given to our though our painters , sculptors , ar ...
Page 68
... manner robust , strongly marked in expression , and altoge- ther admirable -- is An Italian Cross- bowman , ' a work , indeed , which might have been designed by Man- tegna , or any one of the more naturalistic and severe among the ...
... manner robust , strongly marked in expression , and altoge- ther admirable -- is An Italian Cross- bowman , ' a work , indeed , which might have been designed by Man- tegna , or any one of the more naturalistic and severe among the ...
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... manner of the German Denner , literal in the transcript of every care - worn line , as if each passing thought had traced a furrow on the brow . The truth and the force thus attained are marvellous , yet in the head of Dr. Lushington ...
... manner of the German Denner , literal in the transcript of every care - worn line , as if each passing thought had traced a furrow on the brow . The truth and the force thus attained are marvellous , yet in the head of Dr. Lushington ...
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... manner is large , his treatment intelligible , his effects scenic and even poetic . Mr. T. Faed , by his reading of the old proverb , Train up a Child , ' gives us one more chapter , though far from as thrill- ing as that of his ' Dawn ...
... manner is large , his treatment intelligible , his effects scenic and even poetic . Mr. T. Faed , by his reading of the old proverb , Train up a Child , ' gives us one more chapter , though far from as thrill- ing as that of his ' Dawn ...
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... manner of our patron , had during his life pur- modern men . Indications , indeed , chased from the studios of our most are not wanting that the landscape distinguished artists many of their art of the future will assume a char ...
... manner of our patron , had during his life pur- modern men . Indications , indeed , chased from the studios of our most are not wanting that the landscape distinguished artists many of their art of the future will assume a char ...
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Page 336 - Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
Page 121 - The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments ' and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches ; and the form or manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.
Page 59 - But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, Arise, and take the young child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.
Page 374 - ... to the rear. His face, which is always placid and cheerful, did not show signs of the slightest disappointment, care, or annoyance, and he was addressing to every soldier he met a few words of encouragement, such as, 'All this will come right in the end ; we'll talk it over afterwards ; but, in the meantime, all good men must rally. We want all good and true men just now,
Page 60 - Thus saith the Lord , Hast thou killed , and also taken possession ? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
Page 373 - The devil you wouldn't! I would like to have missed it very much; we've attacked and been repulsed; look there!' For the first time I then had a view of the open space between the two positions and saw it covered with Confederates, slowly and sulkily returning towards us in small broken parties, under a heavy fire of artillery.
Page 602 - ... it is very possible that I may have said things which a profound observer of national character would hesitate to sanction, though never any, I verily believe, that had not more or less of truth. If they be true, there is no reason in the world why they should not be said. Not an Englishman of them all ever spared America for courtesy's sake or kindness...
Page 340 - So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Page 373 - After passing General Lee and his Staff, I rode on through the woods in the direction in which I had left Longstreet. I soon began to meet many wounded men returning from the front; many of them asked in piteous tones the way to a doctor or an ambulance. The further I got, the greater became the number of the wounded. At last I came to a perfect stream of them...