A manual of essays, selected from various authors, Volumen2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1809 |
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... picture of Helena , ( which Cicero , in his Orator before- mentioned , set before us as the most perfect ex- ample of beauty , ) at the same time admonishes a painter to contemplate the ideas of the most na- tural forms , and to make a ...
... picture of Helena , ( which Cicero , in his Orator before- mentioned , set before us as the most perfect ex- ample of beauty , ) at the same time admonishes a painter to contemplate the ideas of the most na- tural forms , and to make a ...
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... pictures , and to draw their per- sons and faces into comparison . Ovid , endea- vouring to express the beauty of Cyllarus the fairest of the Centaurs , celebrates him as next in perfection to the most admired statues . Gratus in ore ...
... pictures , and to draw their per- sons and faces into comparison . Ovid , endea- vouring to express the beauty of Cyllarus the fairest of the Centaurs , celebrates him as next in perfection to the most admired statues . Gratus in ore ...
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... picture being the representation of a hu- man action , the painter ought to retain in his mind the examples of all affections and passions , as a poet preserves the idea of an angry man ; of one who is fearful , sad , or merry , and so ...
... picture being the representation of a hu- man action , the painter ought to retain in his mind the examples of all affections and passions , as a poet preserves the idea of an angry man ; of one who is fearful , sad , or merry , and so ...
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... pictures , " Behold , my son , " says the father , " that representation of perfect beauty embracing " with no small extasy a young man who kneels " before her . " " Methinks , " cries Euphemion , interrupting him , " I can read in the ...
... pictures , " Behold , my son , " says the father , " that representation of perfect beauty embracing " with no small extasy a young man who kneels " before her . " " Methinks , " cries Euphemion , interrupting him , " I can read in the ...
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... picture is an ingenious allegory . I " used this device to lead you imperceptibly into " the path of true pleasure , and to make your life " an explanation of those two figures . The one is 66 supposed to be Happiness , the daughter of ...
... picture is an ingenious allegory . I " used this device to lead you imperceptibly into " the path of true pleasure , and to make your life " an explanation of those two figures . The one is 66 supposed to be Happiness , the daughter of ...
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Página 224 - Our present race of ephemerae will in a course of minutes become corrupt, like those of other and older bushes, and consequently as wretched : and in philosophy how small our progress ! Alas ! art is long, and life is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say, I shall leave behind me ; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to glory. But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists ? and what will become of all history in the eighteenth hour,...
Página 131 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
Página 103 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Página 104 - I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Página 104 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof : an image was before mine eyes ; there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Página 55 - Words, indeed, like glaring colours, are the first beauties that arise and strike the sight; but, if the draught...
Página 189 - I might have bought with the rest of the money; and laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with vexation; and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.
Página 190 - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, He pays, indeed, said I, too much for his whistle.
Página 71 - Sickness is a sort of early old age ; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state, and inspires us with the thoughts of a future, better than a thousand volumes of philosophers and divines. It gives so warning a concussion to those props of our vanity, our strength and youth, that we think of fortifying ourselves within, when there is so little dependence upon our outworks.
Página 223 - the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion; since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary that gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently...