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... appear among them , with a few essays of my historical compositions in their annual exhibitions of painting , sculpture and archi- tecture . Those exhibitions became an object of attraction to men of taste in the fine arts ; the young ...
... appear among them , with a few essays of my historical compositions in their annual exhibitions of painting , sculpture and archi- tecture . Those exhibitions became an object of attraction to men of taste in the fine arts ; the young ...
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... appear to me excellent in comedy . Every cha- racter has its representative , and the valet de chambre , the prude , the coquette , and the gamester , are represented to the life . They are all perfect in their parts too , and extremely ...
... appear to me excellent in comedy . Every cha- racter has its representative , and the valet de chambre , the prude , the coquette , and the gamester , are represented to the life . They are all perfect in their parts too , and extremely ...
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... appears to great advantage in some of the smaller pie- ces ; he has also a handsome person , and is consequently in every re- spect an object of universal admiration . The play - houses are all of them rather commodious than handsome ...
... appears to great advantage in some of the smaller pie- ces ; he has also a handsome person , and is consequently in every re- spect an object of universal admiration . The play - houses are all of them rather commodious than handsome ...
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... appears to advantage , is rather declining . The dancing of the opera is what chiefly draws a crowd , but the art has , I think , degenerated . It is no longer the expression of gayety , nor is it the serious dance , the school of the ...
... appears to advantage , is rather declining . The dancing of the opera is what chiefly draws a crowd , but the art has , I think , degenerated . It is no longer the expression of gayety , nor is it the serious dance , the school of the ...
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... appear to me to be curious and valuable . I subjoin a description of some of them ; and should you think that any of them are worth preserving , I should be happy to find that such were rescued from oblivion by being transferred to the ...
... appear to me to be curious and valuable . I subjoin a description of some of them ; and should you think that any of them are worth preserving , I should be happy to find that such were rescued from oblivion by being transferred to the ...
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الصفحة 203 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
الصفحة 387 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes!
الصفحة 204 - The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
الصفحة 201 - And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter ; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out. and wept bitterly.
الصفحة 396 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
الصفحة 204 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
الصفحة 340 - O'er many a distant foreign land ; Each place, each province I have tried, And sung and danced my saraband : But all their charms could not prevail To steal my heart from yonder vale.
الصفحة 206 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
الصفحة 489 - Let me not stir, nor breathe, lest I dissolve That tender, lovely form of painted air, So like Almeria. Ha! it sinks, it falls; I'll catch it ere it goes, and grasp her shade. 'Tislife! 'tis warm! 'tis she! 'tis she herself ! Nor dead nor shade, but breathing and alive!
الصفحة 155 - It is very difficult to lay down rules for the acquirement of such a taste as that I am here speaking of. The faculty must in some degree be born with us; and it very often happens, that those who have other qualities in perfection, are wholly void of this. One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age has assured me, that the greatest pleasure he took in reading Virgil was in examining /Eneas's voyage by the map...