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Page 224 - If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Page 320 - What is this song or picture, this engaging personality presented in life or in a book, to me? What effect does it really produce on me? Does it give me pleasure? and if so, what sort or degree of pleasure? How is my nature modified by its presence, and under its influence?
Page 80 - Next comes the young man, twenty-one years of age, with his front hair plastered smoothly down over his tender, throbbing dome of thought. He does not care so much about the expression on the mobile features, so long as his left hand, with the new ring on it, shows distinctly, and the string of jingling, jangling charms on his watch chain, including the cute little basket cut out of a peach stone, stand out well in the foreground.
Page 16 - ... sayings about his grave, we find thrilling us to the soul — while there is the truest poetic elevation in the thrill. The impression left is one of a pleasurable sadness. And if, in the remaining compositions which I shall introduce to you, there be more or less of a similar tone always apparent, let me remind you that (how or why we know not) this certain taint of sadness is inseparably connected with all the higher manifestations of true beauty.
Page 376 - But the author prefers to make the copies upon photographic paper prepared in the way which he originally described in a memoir read to the Royal Society in February, 1839, and which is made by washing the best writing paper, first with a weak solution of common salt, and next with a solution of nitrate of silver. Although it takes a much longer time to obtain a copy upon this paper, yet, when obtained, the tints appear more harmonious and pleasing to the eye ; it...
Page 376 - ... brush, taking care to wash it on the side which has been previously marked. This operation should be performed by candlelight. Let the paper rest half a minute, and then dip it into water. Then dry it lightly with blotting-paper, and finally dry it cautiously at a fire, holding it at a considerable distance therefrom. When dry, the paper is fit for use.
Page 378 - I prefer to use for the object-glass of the camera a lens whose focal length is only three or four times greater than the diameter of the aperture. The person whose portrait is to be taken should be so placed that the head may be as steady as possible, and the camera being then pointed at it, an image is received on the sensitive calotype paper. I prefer to conduct the process in the open air, under a serene sky ; but without sunshine, the image is generally obtained in half a minute or a minute....
Page 378 - ... by lights, and the shades by shades. Engravings may be very well copied in the same way, and positive copies of them obtained at once (reversed however from right to left). For this purpose a sheet of calotype paper is taken and held in daylight to darken it as before mentioned ; but for the present purpose it should be more darkened than if it were intended to be used in the camera obscura. The rest of the process is the same. The...
Page 192 - ... if we can only get the camera in place of the gun and have the sportsman sunk somewhat in the naturalist and lover of wild things, the next generation will see an immense change for the better in the life of our woods and waters.
Page 376 - But it is easy from this picture to obtain another which shall be conformable to nature, viz., in which the lights shall be represented by lights, and the shades by shades. It is only necessary for this purpose to take a second sheet of sensitive calotype paper, and place it in close contact with the first, upon which the picture has been formed. A board is put beneath them, and a sheet of glass above, and the whole is pressed into close contact by screws. Being then placed in sunshine or daylight...