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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... possession or expectancy of public favour , the Editor most unequivocally disclaims having one end in view , the diffusion of knowledge and of polite literature , he aims at establishing in this quarter of the kingdom , a vehicle of ...
... possession or expectancy of public favour , the Editor most unequivocally disclaims having one end in view , the diffusion of knowledge and of polite literature , he aims at establishing in this quarter of the kingdom , a vehicle of ...
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... possession of Egypt for several hundred years after the introduction of the arch into their own country , and there can be little doubt that , after breaking through the solid wall , they adopted the then Roman method of making an ...
... possession of Egypt for several hundred years after the introduction of the arch into their own country , and there can be little doubt that , after breaking through the solid wall , they adopted the then Roman method of making an ...
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... possession of so much geometrical knowledge , a fact much doubted , let it not escape our recollection that he lived one hundred years after Pericles , the patron of the arts , and under whose sway Athens was ornamented with the greater ...
... possession of so much geometrical knowledge , a fact much doubted , let it not escape our recollection that he lived one hundred years after Pericles , the patron of the arts , and under whose sway Athens was ornamented with the greater ...
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... possessed by the present moment ; as an elder brother , it lays claim to the superiority of inheritance ; " its joys were more elastic and its sorrows more poignant ; its smiles were brighter and more beguiling , and its friendships and ...
... possessed by the present moment ; as an elder brother , it lays claim to the superiority of inheritance ; " its joys were more elastic and its sorrows more poignant ; its smiles were brighter and more beguiling , and its friendships and ...
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... possession , opens and peruses it . Wrapped in a cloak of shadowy green , the bearer stands aloof , and gazes upon the reader with a thrilling and tremulous tenderness ; dark chesnut curls sit , loosely , round the stranger's head ...
... possession , opens and peruses it . Wrapped in a cloak of shadowy green , the bearer stands aloof , and gazes upon the reader with a thrilling and tremulous tenderness ; dark chesnut curls sit , loosely , round the stranger's head ...
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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.