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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... Italian workmanship . Close to this is a statue erect in armour of William , brother of this John , who both died without issue . As family memorials so soon pass into oblivion , and as what I have sent you are no where recorded , I ...
... Italian workmanship . Close to this is a statue erect in armour of William , brother of this John , who both died without issue . As family memorials so soon pass into oblivion , and as what I have sent you are no where recorded , I ...
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... Italy , to Germany , or to any other part of the Continent , we would take care that Great Britain maintained her superiority in arts , as she has always done in arms , and we would lead English- men to an intimate communion with that ...
... Italy , to Germany , or to any other part of the Continent , we would take care that Great Britain maintained her superiority in arts , as she has always done in arms , and we would lead English- men to an intimate communion with that ...
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... of a steel plate . This great improvement was of Italian origin . The Florentine annals give the year 1315 as the date of a new regulation in armour , by which every horseman who went 54 CRITICAL NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
... of a steel plate . This great improvement was of Italian origin . The Florentine annals give the year 1315 as the date of a new regulation in armour , by which every horseman who went 54 CRITICAL NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
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... Italy , with Sketches of Spain and Portugal . In a series of Letters written during a residence in those countries . By William Beckford , author of " Vathek . " 2 vols . 8vo . Bentley . 1834 . This is not so much a history of sights ...
... Italy , with Sketches of Spain and Portugal . In a series of Letters written during a residence in those countries . By William Beckford , author of " Vathek . " 2 vols . 8vo . Bentley . 1834 . This is not so much a history of sights ...
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... Italy . The meed of praise is not only due to the typographical part of the number , but to the maps and wood engravings , which are beautifully executed . The names of the gentlemen in the different departments of science are of such ...
... Italy . The meed of praise is not only due to the typographical part of the number , but to the maps and wood engravings , which are beautifully executed . The names of the gentlemen in the different departments of science are of such ...
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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.
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 435 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me.
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 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...
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 386 - Look round the wood, with lifted eyes, to see The lurking gold upon the fatal tree : Then rend it off...
Page 261 - How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That had'st 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 so to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, — How small a. part of time they shave That are so wondrous sweet and fair.