Excursions in Art and LettersHoughton, Mifflin, 1891 - 295 Seiten |
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... less to rehearse the familiar names that then illu- mined the golden age of Italian art , where shine preeminent those of Leonardo , the widest and most universal genius that perhaps the world has ever seen ; of Michel Angelo , the ...
... less to rehearse the familiar names that then illu- mined the golden age of Italian art , where shine preeminent those of Leonardo , the widest and most universal genius that perhaps the world has ever seen ; of Michel Angelo , the ...
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... less than 343 figures , of great variety of movements , grandiose proportions , and many of them of colossal size ; and to the sketches he first designed he seems to have absolutely adhered . Of course , within such a time he could not ...
... less than 343 figures , of great variety of movements , grandiose proportions , and many of them of colossal size ; and to the sketches he first designed he seems to have absolutely adhered . Of course , within such a time he could not ...
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... less apparent when seen from a distance , are quite as remarkable as their power and energy . Great as Michel Angelo was as a sculptor , he seems even greater as a painter . Not only is the design broader and larger , but there is a ...
... less apparent when seen from a distance , are quite as remarkable as their power and energy . Great as Michel Angelo was as a sculptor , he seems even greater as a painter . Not only is the design broader and larger , but there is a ...
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... less trained themselves in all . It might be said that not a single great man was not versed in more than one art . Thence it was that they derived their power . It does not suffice that the arm alone is strong ; the whole body strikes ...
... less trained themselves in all . It might be said that not a single great man was not versed in more than one art . Thence it was that they derived their power . It does not suffice that the arm alone is strong ; the whole body strikes ...
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... less than thirty - two millions of francs of to - day . Here were to lie the bodies of the Medici family , in honor of whom it was raised . On each of the eight sides is a vast arch , and inside six of these are six immense sarcophagi ...
... less than thirty - two millions of francs of to - day . Here were to lie the bodies of the Medici family , in honor of whom it was raised . On each of the eight sides is a vast arch , and inside six of these are six immense sarcophagi ...
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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!