The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 38A. Constable, 1823 |
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Page 127
... Italy , who will not confirm its truth . It is as impossible to convey a conception of the exterior of the Par- thenon , or the interior of St Peter's , by the finest drawings ac- companied by the most accurate statement of their ...
... Italy , who will not confirm its truth . It is as impossible to convey a conception of the exterior of the Par- thenon , or the interior of St Peter's , by the finest drawings ac- companied by the most accurate statement of their ...
Page 129
... Italian artists ; for Bramanti and ' Michael Angelo , Palladio and Bernini , designed and executed • works which , although of unequal merit , may fairly challenge a comparison with the boasted productions of the Augustan ' age . ' Italy ...
... Italian artists ; for Bramanti and ' Michael Angelo , Palladio and Bernini , designed and executed • works which , although of unequal merit , may fairly challenge a comparison with the boasted productions of the Augustan ' age . ' Italy ...
Page 133
... Italians , that every provincial town in their country contains more costly struc- tures than the National Monument of Scotland . But the Par- thenon could be restored on the Calton Hill for 40,000l . By adopting the Doric temple ...
... Italians , that every provincial town in their country contains more costly struc- tures than the National Monument of Scotland . But the Par- thenon could be restored on the Calton Hill for 40,000l . By adopting the Doric temple ...
Page 134
... Italy ; and giving our archi- tects the same means of making rapid progress in original de- sign which the Italian artists obtained from the ruins with which their country was adorned , and which Raphael and 134 Feb. Restoration of the ...
... Italy ; and giving our archi- tects the same means of making rapid progress in original de- sign which the Italian artists obtained from the ruins with which their country was adorned , and which Raphael and 134 Feb. Restoration of the ...
Page 137
... Italians have not thought of attempting a restoration of the Colyseum , or the Pantheon . But it is to be recollected , that the originals were within their reach , and had already exercised their salutary influence on the public taste ...
... Italians have not thought of attempting a restoration of the Colyseum , or the Pantheon . But it is to be recollected , that the originals were within their reach , and had already exercised their salutary influence on the public taste ...
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Page 153 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. — Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies ! — Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
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Page 280 - The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants: it is always unknown ; it is different in different men; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice ; in the worst, it is every vice, folly, and passion to which human nature is liable.
Page 206 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Page 45 - I wish for nothing but to breathe, in this our island, in common with my fellow-subjects, the air of liberty. I have no ambition, unless it be the ambition to break your chain, and contemplate your glory. I never will be satisfied so long as the meanest cottager in Ireland has a link of the British chain clanking to his rags. He may be naked, — he shall not be in irons.
Page 47 - I was the parent and the founder, from the assassination of such men as the honorable gentleman and his unworthy associates. They are corrupt, — they are seditious, — and they, at this very moment, are in a conspiracy against their country ! I have returned to refute a libel...
Page 44 - Do not suffer the arrogance of England to imagine a surviving hope in the fears of Ireland ; do not send the people to their own resolves for liberty, passing by the tribunals of justice and the high court of parliament ; neither imagine that, by any formation of apology, you can palliate such a commission to your hearts, still less to your children, who will sting you...
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Page 153 - Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!