Manual of the Fine Arts, Critical and Historical: With an Introduction by D. Huntington, M.A.A. S. Barnes & Company, 1879 - 476 Seiten |
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... touch of golden wires . " The break of the metre in the first line is half its beauty . It brings the ear attent to hear — what ? The touch of golden wires . Unshorn Apollo - what an humble epithet ! yet , who would attempt to ...
... touch of golden wires . " The break of the metre in the first line is half its beauty . It brings the ear attent to hear — what ? The touch of golden wires . Unshorn Apollo - what an humble epithet ! yet , who would attempt to ...
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... touching the celestial golden lyre , and hear the united harmony of all that high bards have sung . And all this , too , in a moment of time , even as the eye glances over the lines . Such is the winged power of art , it can transport ...
... touching the celestial golden lyre , and hear the united harmony of all that high bards have sung . And all this , too , in a moment of time , even as the eye glances over the lines . Such is the winged power of art , it can transport ...
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... touching , & c . , so pictures may present all vari- eties , from the elevated productions of a Michael Angelo to the image of a single dew - drop , a leaf , or a feather . Objects which attract no attention and are of little interest ...
... touching , & c . , so pictures may present all vari- eties , from the elevated productions of a Michael Angelo to the image of a single dew - drop , a leaf , or a feather . Objects which attract no attention and are of little interest ...
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... touch , and correct eye for nature . They sought out those scenes in landscape , as well as other sub- jects , wherein the contrasts and assimilations or combinations of colour presented the opportunity of exhibiting their greatest ...
... touch , and correct eye for nature . They sought out those scenes in landscape , as well as other sub- jects , wherein the contrasts and assimilations or combinations of colour presented the opportunity of exhibiting their greatest ...
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... touch the ambiguous line of a squeamish sense . Taste and smell , as sources of tragic emotion , and , in consequence of their power , commanding gesture , seem scarcely admissible in art , or on the theatre , because their extremes are ...
... touch the ambiguous line of a squeamish sense . Taste and smell , as sources of tragic emotion , and , in consequence of their power , commanding gesture , seem scarcely admissible in art , or on the theatre , because their extremes are ...
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Academy admiration alto-relievo ancient antique Apollodorus appears Architect architecture artist beauty born called celebrated century character chiaroscuro church Cimabue colossal colour columns composed composition copy Dædalus delight Doric order drapery drawing effect Egyptian elegance eminent England Engraver Etruscan excellence executed exhibited expression father feeling feet figures finished genius Giorgione give grace grandeur Grecian Greece Greeks hand harmony head historical honour imagination imitation invention Ital Italian Italy king labour landscape light Lysippus manner marble masters merit Michael Angelo mind nature never objects opera original ornament Painter painting palace Paul Veronese pencil perfect Phidias picture poet poetry portrait practised Praxiteles principles produced Pythagoras Raphael Rembrandt represented Reynolds Roman Rome says scene sculpture seems Sicyon sketches soul spirit statues style sublime talents taste temple Terpander thing Timanthes Tintoretto tion Titian touch truth Venetian school West whole
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Seite 449 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
Seite 19 - A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more...
Seite 265 - And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men ; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha : and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha. he revived, and stood up on his feet.
Seite 15 - Delightful Scenes, whether in Nature, Painting, or Poetry, have a kindly Influence on the Body, as well as the Mind, and not only serve to clear and brighten the Imagination, but are able to disperse Grief and Melancholy, and to set the Animal Spirits in pleasing and agreeable Motions.
Seite 18 - own exceeding great reward;' it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Seite 449 - But I will punish home: No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Seite 440 - full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
Seite 146 - I have endeavoured to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer ; my picture is my stage, my men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show.
Seite 455 - The chorus in which that opera abounds gives the parterre frequent opportunities of joining in concert with the stage. This inclination of the audience to sing along with the actors, so prevails with them, that I have sometimes known the performer on the stage do no more in a celebrated song, than the clerk of a parish church, who serves only to raise the psalm, and is afterwards drowned in the music of the congregation.
Seite 155 - I proceeded to copy some of those excellent works. I viewed them again and again ; I even affected to feel their merit and admire them more than I really did.