The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volumen1Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... master of the company : but a true judge of writing is like a painter or a sta- tuary , who doth not content himself with shew- ing fine images of nature , unless he likewise informs the spectators wherein the beauties consist ; whence ...
... master of the company : but a true judge of writing is like a painter or a sta- tuary , who doth not content himself with shew- ing fine images of nature , unless he likewise informs the spectators wherein the beauties consist ; whence ...
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... master ; whereas the well - bred know , that a graceful motion is the most easy , and art is only the unlearning of what is unnatural . In ancient Greece and Rome , rhetoric was there , fore the foundation of their polite learning ...
... master ; whereas the well - bred know , that a graceful motion is the most easy , and art is only the unlearning of what is unnatural . In ancient Greece and Rome , rhetoric was there , fore the foundation of their polite learning ...
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... master can delineate the changeable colours in the neck of the dove , and in the tail of the peacock , arising from the rays of light glancing and playing among the feathers ? " Here Dr. Lacon pausing , Mr. Johnson said , " Nature , no ...
... master can delineate the changeable colours in the neck of the dove , and in the tail of the peacock , arising from the rays of light glancing and playing among the feathers ? " Here Dr. Lacon pausing , Mr. Johnson said , " Nature , no ...
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... masters of the great manner in painting history , who express in their pieces great design , generous sentiments , and the dignity of the sublime style , animate their canvass with the most lively and active passions : all the emotions ...
... masters of the great manner in painting history , who express in their pieces great design , generous sentiments , and the dignity of the sublime style , animate their canvass with the most lively and active passions : all the emotions ...
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... masters of the pencil often take their ideas , and borrow the passions they would exhibit , from the writings of the poet ; while the painter is himself but the copyist , and the poet the original . ' Tis observed of Raphael , the most ...
... masters of the pencil often take their ideas , and borrow the passions they would exhibit , from the writings of the poet ; while the painter is himself but the copyist , and the poet the original . ' Tis observed of Raphael , the most ...
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Página 254 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 52 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Página 55 - With quicken'd step, Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.
Página 139 - Enlarge my life with multitude of days ! In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy...
Página 124 - All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a host that hasted by; and as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which, when it is gone by,, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves...
Página 5 - ... for the supports of his body were easily attained, but the eager longings for seeing again the face of man, during the interval of craving bodily appetites, were hardly supportable. He grew dejected, languid, and melancholy, scarce able to refrain from doing himself violence, till by degrees, by the force of reason and frequent reading of the scriptures, and turning his thoughts upon the study of navigation, after the space of eighteen months, he grew thoroughly reconciled to his Condition.
Página 55 - Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn. Blue...
Página 322 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and...
Página 177 - Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er Pur's the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die...
Página 38 - The tuneful page with speaking picture charm. What to the ear sublimer rapture brings, That strain alone the genuine Poet sings ; That form alone where glows peculiar grace, The genuine Painter condescends to trace : 10 No sordid theme will verse or paint admit, Unworthy colours, if unworthy wit.