The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History, and the Fine Arts, Volume 1Edward Mammatt Simpkin and Marshall, 1834 - Art |
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... remains , both in science and in art , which at this day direct our judgment and induce our imitation . To this subject my attention has been lately more particularly called by looking over some splendid repre- sentations of Greek ...
... remains , both in science and in art , which at this day direct our judgment and induce our imitation . To this subject my attention has been lately more particularly called by looking over some splendid repre- sentations of Greek ...
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... fulness of pencil or discrimination of surface is all that remains to be desired . J. Pitman has six pictures . " 89 - A Stag's Head , " possessing con- NO I. G siderable freedom ; " 120 - A Norman Horse , FINE ARTS . 41.
... fulness of pencil or discrimination of surface is all that remains to be desired . J. Pitman has six pictures . " 89 - A Stag's Head , " possessing con- NO I. G siderable freedom ; " 120 - A Norman Horse , FINE ARTS . 41.
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... remains of a sceptre in each hand ; the crown has been removed or lost from the effigy . " The habits of the nobility in general were by no means so simple . The long robes and tunics of the preceding reigns vanished altogether , and a ...
... remains of a sceptre in each hand ; the crown has been removed or lost from the effigy . " The habits of the nobility in general were by no means so simple . The long robes and tunics of the preceding reigns vanished altogether , and a ...
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... remains ; " a few lists of these are given in the course of the work ; but the investigation of this district not having been much followed up , they are necessarily very incomplete ; they serve , however , to give a stimulus to ...
... remains ; " a few lists of these are given in the course of the work ; but the investigation of this district not having been much followed up , they are necessarily very incomplete ; they serve , however , to give a stimulus to ...
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... remains ; concluding by an explanation of those geological phenomena observable in the neighbourhood , such as Dislocations , Deposits from Springs , and the Origin of the Mineral Waters of Cheltenham . Hume and Smollett's History of ...
... remains ; concluding by an explanation of those geological phenomena observable in the neighbourhood , such as Dislocations , Deposits from Springs , and the Origin of the Mineral Waters of Cheltenham . Hume and Smollett's History of ...
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Page 261 - Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush...
Page 151 - In the one the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Page 151 - I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination.
Page 151 - The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset diffused over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining both. These are the poetry of nature. The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting...
Page 297 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 347 - In his last illness, his physician observing in the morning that he seemed to cough with more difficulty, he answered, ' that is rather surprising, as I have been practising all night.
Page 10 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths. Beneath her steady ray, The desert circle spreads, Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky ; How beautiful is night...
Page 91 - She was a form of life and light, That, seen, became a part of sight; And rose where'er I turn'd mine eye, The morning-star of memory ! " Yes, love indeed is light from heaven ; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Alia given, To lift from earth our low desire.
Page 109 - You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God; laying before us two books or volumes to study, if we will be secured from error ; first, the Scriptures revealing the will of God, and then the creatures expressing his power ; for that latter book will certify us, that nothing which the first teacheth shall be thought impossible.
Page 151 - For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life; the characters and incidents were to be such as will be found in every village and its vicinity, where there is a meditative and feeling mind to seek after them, or to notice them when they present themselves. In this idea originated the plan of the Lyrical Ballads...