Excursions in Art and LettersHoughton, Mifflin, 1891 - 295 Seiten |
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... allied to idola- try . Under its influence the arts slowly wasted away as with a mortal disease . With ever - declin- ing strength they struggled for centuries , gasping as it were for breath , and finally , almost MICHEL ANGELO.
... allied to idola- try . Under its influence the arts slowly wasted away as with a mortal disease . With ever - declin- ing strength they struggled for centuries , gasping as it were for breath , and finally , almost MICHEL ANGELO.
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... centuries ago ; here to the imagination they still walk , and they scarcely seem gone . Here is the stone upon which Dante sat and medi- tated , was it an hour ago or six centuries ? Here Brunelleschi watched the growing of his mighty ...
... centuries ago ; here to the imagination they still walk , and they scarcely seem gone . Here is the stone upon which Dante sat and medi- tated , was it an hour ago or six centuries ? Here Brunelleschi watched the growing of his mighty ...
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... centuries ago , their labors and battles and commerce done , were here laid to rest . The nave on either side is lined with monumental stat- ues of the illustrious dead . Ungrateful Florence , who drove her greatest poet from her gates ...
... centuries ago , their labors and battles and commerce done , were here laid to rest . The nave on either side is lined with monumental stat- ues of the illustrious dead . Ungrateful Florence , who drove her greatest poet from her gates ...
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... centuries come to visit it in reverence from a continent then but just discovered , and peopled only with savages . But more than all other places , the Church of San Lorenzo is identified with him ; and the Me- dicean Chapel , which he ...
... centuries come to visit it in reverence from a continent then but just discovered , and peopled only with savages . But more than all other places , the Church of San Lorenzo is identified with him ; and the Me- dicean Chapel , which he ...
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... centuries , and to swing , as he said , in air the Pantheon . That mighty dome is but the architec- tural brother of the great statues in the Medicean Chapel , and the Titan frescoes of the Sistine Chapel . Granted all the defects of ...
... centuries , and to swing , as he said , in air the Pantheon . That mighty dome is but the architec- tural brother of the great statues in the Medicean Chapel , and the Titan frescoes of the Sistine Chapel . Granted all the defects of ...
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Seite 235 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Seite 268 - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters : — To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Seite 284 - tis later, sir. Ban. Hold, take my sword. — There's husbandry in heaven, Their candles are all out. — Take thee that too. A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not sleep : Merciful powers ! Restrain in me the cursed thoughts, that nature Gives way to in repose ! — Give me my sword ; — „ Enter MACBETH, and a Servant with a torch.
Seite 279 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Seite 267 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Seite 266 - Let not light see my black and deep desires; The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Seite 279 - But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams, That shake us nightly...
Seite 252 - But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff, They were all struck for thee!
Seite 260 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Seite 280 - Be innocent of the knowledge , dearest chuck , Till thou applaud the deed. — Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!