Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad: With Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected, and a New Edition of the "Diary of an Ennuyée.", Bände 1-2Saunders and Otley, 1834 |
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... taste , as stupidly presumptuous in attempt , and ridiculous in failure , as ever shocked me on the walls of Somerset House , there was nothing to be compared to the best pictures I have seen there . As I looked and listened to the ...
... taste , as stupidly presumptuous in attempt , and ridiculous in failure , as ever shocked me on the walls of Somerset House , there was nothing to be compared to the best pictures I have seen there . As I looked and listened to the ...
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... taste to select and appropriate the finest specimens of art , and yet purchase and patronise the vilest daubs ever perpetrated by imbecility and presumption ? MEDON . I know not , unless it be that in the former case he made use of ...
... taste to select and appropriate the finest specimens of art , and yet purchase and patronise the vilest daubs ever perpetrated by imbecility and presumption ? MEDON . I know not , unless it be that in the former case he made use of ...
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... taste , they fix the attention by the vigour of the colouring and the expression of the heads , many of which are evidently from the life . The story is told in a very complete though very inartifi- cial manner . The painter , Derick ...
... taste , they fix the attention by the vigour of the colouring and the expression of the heads , many of which are evidently from the life . The story is told in a very complete though very inartifi- cial manner . The painter , Derick ...
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... taste of these unfinished designs , while we stood together amid a wilderness of ruins , was a commentary on the vicissitudes of this world , worth fifty moral treatises , and as many sermons . " For in the wreck of is and was , Things ...
... taste of these unfinished designs , while we stood together amid a wilderness of ruins , was a commentary on the vicissitudes of this world , worth fifty moral treatises , and as many sermons . " For in the wreck of is and was , Things ...
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... taste , except the ceilings , which , being the glory and admiration of the good people of Frankfort , I must endeavour to describe to you particularly . The elaborate beauty of the arabesque ornaments , their endless variety , and the ...
... taste , except the ceilings , which , being the glory and admiration of the good people of Frankfort , I must endeavour to describe to you particularly . The elaborate beauty of the arabesque ornaments , their endless variety , and the ...
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Seite 235 - The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down. And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows...
Seite 64 - I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth, and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Seite 168 - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Seite 187 - I meant to make her fair, and free, and wise, Of greatest blood, and yet more good than great; I meant the day-star should not brighter rise, Nor lend like influence from his lucent seat. I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. Hating that solemn vice of greatness, pride; I meant each softest virtue there should meet, Fit in that softer bosom to reside. Only a learned and a manly soul I purposed her, that should, with even powers, The rock, the spindle, and the shears control Of destiny,...
Seite 214 - Sincerity ! Thou first of virtues, let no mortal leave Thy onward path! although the earth should gape, And from the gulf of hell destruction cry To take dissimulation's winding way.
Seite 65 - It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Seite 170 - Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won...
Seite 174 - All things that love the sun are out of doors : The sky rejoices in the morning's birth ; The grass is bright with rain-drops ; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth ; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist ; that, glittering in the sun, Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Seite 271 - ... stairs rather directed to the use of the guest than to the eye of the artificer; and yet as the one chiefly heeded, so the other not neglected; each place handsome without curiosity, and homely without loathsomeness; not so dainty as not to be trod on, nor yet flubbered up with good fellowship; all more lasting than beautiful, but that the consideration of the exceeding lastingness made the eye believe it was exceeding beautiful.
Seite 179 - I remember formerly being often diverted with this kind of seers ; they come, ask what such a room is called, in which sir Robert lay, write it down, admire a lobster or a cabbage in a marketpiece, dispute whether the last room was green or purple, and then hurry to the inn for fear the fish should be over-dressed.