| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1896 - 616 pages
...strange mental process, makes us take greater pleasure in the object painted than in the thing itself. ' We're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things wo have passed Perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see.' We need only compare Cimabue's Madonna,... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1856 - 800 pages
...reproduce her — (which you can't) There's no advantage! you must beat her, then.' For, don't you mark, we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see ; And so they are better, painted — better to us,... | |
| Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...— (which you can't) There 's no advantage ! you must beat her, then." For, don't you mark, we 're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see ; And so they are better, painted — better to us,... | |
| American essays - 1916 - 986 pages
...our attention. Browning expresses this in 'Fra Lippo Lippi,' where he says, — For, don't you mark, we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see. But the highest office of art is not so much to attract... | |
| Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...more delightful are her curves and lines, lights and shadows, form and color. "For don't you mark? We're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see." And so they are better painted — better to UB.... | |
| Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...reproduce her — (which you can't) There's no advantage ! you must beat her, then." For, don't you mark, we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see ; And so they are better, painted — better to us,... | |
| Richard St. John Tyrwhitt - Painting - 1868 - 520 pages
...that we cannot help quoting it here, though we have partly anticipated it:— ' For, don't you mark, we're made so, that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see. And so they are better, painted : better to us, Which... | |
| sir David Wilkie - 1868 - 182 pages
...The Photographs by Messrs. Cundall and Fleming. MEMOIR OF SIR DAVID WILKIE. " For, don't you mark, we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see ; And so they are better, painted — better to us,... | |
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