Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and Near London: With Critical, Historical, and Biographical Notices of the Painters and PicturesJ. Murray, 1845 - 628 Seiten |
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... nor space nor opportunity for him to address himself to the grand and universal passions , prin- ciples , and interests of human nature . Suppose a Michael Angelo born to us in England ; we should not xl INTRODUCTION .
... nor space nor opportunity for him to address himself to the grand and universal passions , prin- ciples , and interests of human nature . Suppose a Michael Angelo born to us in England ; we should not xl INTRODUCTION .
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... England ; we should not , perhaps , set him to make a statue of snow , but where or how would his gigantic genius , which revelled in the great deeps of passion and imagination , find scope for action ? He would struggle . and gasp like ...
... England ; we should not , perhaps , set him to make a statue of snow , but where or how would his gigantic genius , which revelled in the great deeps of passion and imagination , find scope for action ? He would struggle . and gasp like ...
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... England , possessed of such vast re- sources both in wealth and power , no National Gallery of art belonging , or at least accessible , to the public at large , should have existed till within the last twenty years . If , on the death ...
... England , possessed of such vast re- sources both in wealth and power , no National Gallery of art belonging , or at least accessible , to the public at large , should have existed till within the last twenty years . If , on the death ...
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... England , we have but one picture a noble one , it must be allowed . There are two fine Murillos , but of Velasquez nothing , -for the picture which bears his name is certainly not his : and of the other great mas- ters of the Spanish ...
... England , we have but one picture a noble one , it must be allowed . There are two fine Murillos , but of Velasquez nothing , -for the picture which bears his name is certainly not his : and of the other great mas- ters of the Spanish ...
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... England from its found- ation in 1823 to the year 1840 . Sir George Beaumont , Bart . , presented The Rev. W. Long presented 1825 . • 15 pictures . • 1825 . 1 M. M. Zachary , Esq . , bequeathed The late 16 NATIONAL GALLERY .
... England from its found- ation in 1823 to the year 1840 . Sir George Beaumont , Bart . , presented The Rev. W. Long presented 1825 . • 15 pictures . • 1825 . 1 M. M. Zachary , Esq . , bequeathed The late 16 NATIONAL GALLERY .
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Seite 131 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Seite 84 - And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people ; and much people of Israel died.
Seite 84 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole : and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it shall live.
Seite 19 - And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always : but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
Seite 157 - And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him ; and he vanished out of their sight.
Seite 507 - At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
Seite 9 - Smit with the love of sister-arts we came, And met congenial, mingling flame with flame; Like friendly colours found them both unite, And each from each contract new strength and light.
Seite 104 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite 88 - And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh. 13. And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
Seite 19 - And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes : and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.