The Camera and the Pencil, Or, The Heliographic Art: Its Theory and Practice in All Its Various Branches, E.g., Daguerreotypy, Photography, &c. : Together with Its History in the United States and in Europe, Being at Once a Theoretical and a Practical Treatise, and Designed Alike, as a Text-book and a Hand-book : Illustrated with Fine Engravings on Steel and on Wood

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M.A. Root, 1864 - 456 Seiten
 

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Seite 82 - And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience. O, welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings, And thou unblemished form of Chastity!
Seite 196 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Seite 210 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Seite 194 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Seite 398 - An Account of a Method of Copying Paintings upon Glass, and of making Profiles by the Agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver; with Observations by H. Davy.
Seite 174 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs ; and Nature gave a second groan ; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Seite 195 - A great part of the beauty of the celebrated description of Eve in Milton's PARADISE LOST, consists in using only general indistinct expressions, every reader making out the detail according to his own particular imagination, — his own idea of beauty, grace, expression, dignity, or loveliness : but a painter, when he represents Eve on a canvas, is obliged to give a determined form, and his own idea of beauty distinctly expressed.
Seite 154 - It will be the duty of the Historian and the Sage in all ages to let no occasion pass of commemorating this illustrious man ; and until time shall be no more will a test of the progress which our race has made in wisdom and in virtue be derived from the veneration paid to the immortal name of WASHINGTON ! APPENDIX.
Seite 194 - The rib he form'd and fashion'd with his hands : Under his forming hands a creature grew, Man-like, but different sex ; so lovely fair, That what...
Seite 72 - You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.

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