Criticisms on Art, and Sketches of the Picture Galleries of England: With Catalogues of the Principal Galleries, Now First Collected, Band 1

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C. Templeman, 1856 - 335 Seiten
 

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Seite 133 - And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon.
Seite 40 - Sometime, we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants.
Seite 129 - Sacred City : ' — might not our Oxford be called so too ." There is an air about it, resonant of joy and hope : it speaks with a thousand tongues to the heart : it waves its mighty shadow over the imagination : it stands in lowly sublimity, on the ' hill of ages ; ' and points with prophetic fingers to the sky : it greets the eager gaze from afar, ' with glistering spires and pinnacles adorned...
Seite 121 - ... often observable in the case of religious enthusiasts, there is a slenderness of constitutional stamina, which renders the flesh no match for the spirit. His bending, flexible form appears to take no strong hold of things, does not grapple with the world about him, but slides from it like a river 'And in its liquid texture mortal wound Receives no more than can the fluid air...
Seite 251 - Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More airy, last the bright consummate flower...
Seite 240 - Must not from others' work a copy take; No, not from Rubens or Vandyke ; Much less content himself to make it like Th' ideas and the images which lie In his own fancy, or his memory. No, he before his sight must place The natural and living face ; The real object must command Each judgment of his eye, and motion of his hand.
Seite 119 - Not many ; some few, as thus : — To see the sun to bed, and to arise, Like some hot amourist with glowing eyes, Bursting the la/y bands of sleep that bound him, With all his fires and travelling glories round him.
Seite 13 - Pan, knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, leads on the eternal spring.
Seite 145 - The exquisite delicacy of the painting is only surpassed by the felicity and subtlety of the conception. Nothing can be more striking than the contrast between the extreme softness of her person and the hardened indifference of her character.
Seite 149 - Not only does the business of the scene never stand still, but every feature and muscle is put into full play ; the exact feeling of the moment is brought out, and carried to its utmost height, and then instantly seized and stamped on the canvass for ever.

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