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... beauty , and dignity . Francis Chantrey was born at Nor- ton , a small village on the borders of Derbyshire , on the 7th of April , 1782 . His ancestors were in respectable if not opulent circumstances , and some heritable possessions ...
... beauty , and dignity . Francis Chantrey was born at Nor- ton , a small village on the borders of Derbyshire , on the 7th of April , 1782 . His ancestors were in respectable if not opulent circumstances , and some heritable possessions ...
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... beauty . It is related at Sheffield , that during the intervals of ordinary labour , Mr Chantrey was not to be found ... beauty together which na- ture has scattered over creation . The true beau - ideal is only a speculation of man on ...
... beauty . It is related at Sheffield , that during the intervals of ordinary labour , Mr Chantrey was not to be found ... beauty together which na- ture has scattered over creation . The true beau - ideal is only a speculation of man on ...
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... beauty and tenderness - a scene of domestic sorrow exalted by meditation . Inven- tion does not consist in investing ab- stract ideas with human form - in con- ferring substance on an empty shade- or in creating forms , unsanctioned by ...
... beauty and tenderness - a scene of domestic sorrow exalted by meditation . Inven- tion does not consist in investing ab- stract ideas with human form - in con- ferring substance on an empty shade- or in creating forms , unsanctioned by ...
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... beauty , more happily expressed . It is a lovely and a fearful thing to look on those beautiful and breathless images of death . They were placed in the exhibition by the side of the Hebe and Terphsicore of Canova- the goddesses ...
... beauty , more happily expressed . It is a lovely and a fearful thing to look on those beautiful and breathless images of death . They were placed in the exhibition by the side of the Hebe and Terphsicore of Canova- the goddesses ...
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... beauty , and dignity . Francis Chantrey was born at Nor- ton , a small village on the borders of Derbyshire , on the 7th of April , 1782 . His ancestors were in respectable if not opulent circumstances , and some heritable possessions ...
... beauty , and dignity . Francis Chantrey was born at Nor- ton , a small village on the borders of Derbyshire , on the 7th of April , 1782 . His ancestors were in respectable if not opulent circumstances , and some heritable possessions ...
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Page 184 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
Page 419 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 311 - O'er untravelled seas to roam, — Yet lives the blood of England in our veins ! And shall we not proclaim That blood of honest fame, Which no tyranny can tame By its chains...
Page 419 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell, Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, <i The royal banner and all quality, Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war...
Page 161 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 314 - As to the family, they always entered in. at the gate, and most generally lived in the kitchen. To have seen a numerous household assembled around the fire, one would have imagined that he was transported back to those happy days of primeval simplicity, which float before our imaginations like golden visions. The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude...
Page 284 - THE FANCY: A Selection from the Poetical Remains of the late Peter Corcoran, of Gray's Inn, student at law. With a brief Memoir of his life.
Page 153 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 154 - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
Page 314 - ... worn out by the very precautions taken for its preservation. The whole house was constantly in a state of inundation, under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbingbrushes; and the good housewives of those days were a kind of amphibious animal, delighting exceedingly to be dabbling in water, — insomuch that an historian of the day gravely tells us, that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck...