Excursions in Art and LettersHoughton, Mifflin, 1891 - 295 Seiten |
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... true , never guilty through all his long life of a single mean or unworthy act : a silent , serious , unsocial , self - involved man , oppressed with the weight of great thoughts , and burdened by many cares and sorrows . With but a ...
... true , never guilty through all his long life of a single mean or unworthy act : a silent , serious , unsocial , self - involved man , oppressed with the weight of great thoughts , and burdened by many cares and sorrows . With but a ...
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... true . He certainly had assistance not only for all the laying of the plaster and the merely me- chanical work , but also in the painting of the ar- chitecture , and even of portions of the figures ; and it now seems to be pretty clear ...
... true . He certainly had assistance not only for all the laying of the plaster and the merely me- chanical work , but also in the painting of the ar- chitecture , and even of portions of the figures ; and it now seems to be pretty clear ...
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... true sense -the strong embodiment of great ideas . - Even to enumerate the other figures would re- quire more time and space than can now be given . But we cannot pass over in silence the wonderful series illustrative of Biblical ...
... true sense -the strong embodiment of great ideas . - Even to enumerate the other figures would re- quire more time and space than can now be given . But we cannot pass over in silence the wonderful series illustrative of Biblical ...
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... True beauty , " says that great reformer , " comes only from the soul , from nobleness of spirit and purity of conduct . " And so , in one of his madrigals , says Michel Angelo . " They are but gross spirits who seek in sensual nature ...
... True beauty , " says that great reformer , " comes only from the soul , from nobleness of spirit and purity of conduct . " And so , in one of his madrigals , says Michel Angelo . " They are but gross spirits who seek in sensual nature ...
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... true that I shall confound ten thousand such as thou art if it be needful , so be wise , and tempt not one who has already too much to bear . " He was generous and large in his charities . He supported out of his purse many poor persons ...
... true that I shall confound ten thousand such as thou art if it be needful , so be wise , and tempt not one who has already too much to bear . " He was generous and large in his charities . He supported out of his purse many poor persons ...
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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!