Somerset House Gazette and Literary Museum, Or, Weekly Miscellany of Fine Arts, Antiquities, and Literary Chit ChatW. Wetton, 1824 - Art |
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... admirable Leslie ; and how many genial spirits might not imagination invite from their sacred dormitories , alike fitting to many who fill the seats once filled by the venerable founders of our native school . W. Hilton , R.A. has sent ...
... admirable Leslie ; and how many genial spirits might not imagination invite from their sacred dormitories , alike fitting to many who fill the seats once filled by the venerable founders of our native school . W. Hilton , R.A. has sent ...
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... admired , for his portraits in water colours , occasionally relaxed from his ostensible graphic labours in the more ... admirable calcographic translation of their invaluable works . The lateness of opening this Exhibition , precludes us ...
... admired , for his portraits in water colours , occasionally relaxed from his ostensible graphic labours in the more ... admirable calcographic translation of their invaluable works . The lateness of opening this Exhibition , precludes us ...
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... admirable friezes and me- once more against these representations , -and are still more topes of the Parthenon . surprised that the Deputy Licenser has not visited them with his injunction . It is just what might be expected from his ...
... admirable friezes and me- once more against these representations , -and are still more topes of the Parthenon . surprised that the Deputy Licenser has not visited them with his injunction . It is just what might be expected from his ...
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... admiration of all who can ap - is the author of a history of Naples , and of a history of preciate what is bold , original , and estimable in art . This work , alone , would have rescued lithograghy from the principal supporters , turns ...
... admiration of all who can ap - is the author of a history of Naples , and of a history of preciate what is bold , original , and estimable in art . This work , alone , would have rescued lithograghy from the principal supporters , turns ...
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... admiration without searching after hypothetical sources of approbation . The sister pas- sion , which is said " to unite poetry to painting , " breathes in the following passage , in which he eulogizes the skill of Julio Romano , with ...
... admiration without searching after hypothetical sources of approbation . The sister pas- sion , which is said " to unite poetry to painting , " breathes in the following passage , in which he eulogizes the skill of Julio Romano , with ...
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Page 239 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 63 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 179 - And the matin-bell and the mountain bee : Fireflies were quenched on the dewy corn, Glowworms went out on the river's brim Like lamps which a student forgets to trim : The beetle forgot to wind his horn, The crickets were still in the meadow and hill: Like a flock of rooks at a farmer's gun Night's dreams and terrors, every one, Fled from the brains which are their prey From the lamp's death to the morning ray. 296 The Boat on the Serchio All rose to do the task He set to each, Who shaped us to his...
Page 281 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 196 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips.
Page 35 - Then old age and experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death and make him understand After a search so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong.
Page 179 - I love Love — though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee — Thou art love and life ! O come ! Make once more my heart thy home ! STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION NEAR NAPLES.
Page 179 - How shall ever one like me Win thee back again? With the joyous and the free Thou wilt scoff at pain. Spirit false! thou hast forgot All but those who need thee not. As a lizard with the shade Of a trembling leaf, Thou with sorrow art dismayed; Even the sighs of grief Reproach thee, that thou art not near, And reproach thou wilt not hear.
Page 178 - A lovelier toy sweet Nature never made, A serious, subtle, wild, yet gentle being, Graceful without design and unforeseeing, With eyes — Oh speak not of her eyes! — which seem Twin mirrors of Italian Heaven, yet gleam With such deep meaning, as we never see But in the human countenance...
Page 80 - And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field. 22 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.