The Quarterly Review, Volume 66William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1840 - English literature |
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... nature by him , the Ascension , ' formerly in the church of the SS . Apostoli at Rome , says , the figures of Christ and the angels seemed to pierce the roof . ' This artist appears to have been employed in a villa of the sove- reigns ...
... nature by him , the Ascension , ' formerly in the church of the SS . Apostoli at Rome , says , the figures of Christ and the angels seemed to pierce the roof . ' This artist appears to have been employed in a villa of the sove- reigns ...
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... nature of the art itself is unchangeable , and however modified by the influence of a spiritual religion , must still assert its qualities , if it is to maintain a separate character and aim , as compared with other modes of expression ...
... nature of the art itself is unchangeable , and however modified by the influence of a spiritual religion , must still assert its qualities , if it is to maintain a separate character and aim , as compared with other modes of expression ...
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... nature herself , becomes last- ingly attractive . In April , 1508 , the Pope's nephew , Francesco Maria della Rovere ... natural than that he should , of his own accord , invite Raphael , now acknowledged to be second to none , to assist ...
... nature herself , becomes last- ingly attractive . In April , 1508 , the Pope's nephew , Francesco Maria della Rovere ... natural than that he should , of his own accord , invite Raphael , now acknowledged to be second to none , to assist ...
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... nature and powers of the art . These have been lately engraved for the first time by Ludwig Grüner , who has so successfully employed his burin in disseminating the works of Raphael . † The precise order of these works is unimportant ...
... nature and powers of the art . These have been lately engraved for the first time by Ludwig Grüner , who has so successfully employed his burin in disseminating the works of Raphael . † The precise order of these works is unimportant ...
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... nature . The kishmish , a peculiar stoneless variety of the grape , is con- sidered by some to be a native of that part of Persia lying on the Gulf . In Belochistan , still farther to the east , the vine clings with its tendrils to the ...
... nature . The kishmish , a peculiar stoneless variety of the grape , is con- sidered by some to be a native of that part of Persia lying on the Gulf . In Belochistan , still farther to the east , the vine clings with its tendrils to the ...
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Page 72 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Page 385 - And now, what time ye all may read through dimming tears his story, How discord on the music fell and darkness on the glory, And how when, one by one, sweet sounds and wandering lights departed, He wore no less a loving face because so brokenhearted, He shall be strong to sanctify the poet's high vocation.
Page 264 - I call upon the honour of your Lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own: I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character : I invoke the genius of the constitution.
Page 180 - Have always therefore printed in your remembrance, how great a treasure is committed to your charge. For they are the sheep of Christ, which he bought with his death, and for whom he shed his blood.
Page 484 - I could hear, was no longer a maddening discord, but a melting one; like inarticulate cries, and sobbings of a dumb creature, which in the ear of Heaven are prayers. The poor Earth, with her poor joys, was now my needy Mother, not my cruel Stepdame; Man, with his so mad Wants and so mean Endeavours, had become the dearer to me ; and even for his sufferings and his sins, I now first named him Brother. Thus was I standing in the porch of that 'Sanctuary of Sorrow,' by strange, steep ways had I too...
Page 264 - That God and nature put into our hands!" I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature, but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalpingknife — to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering...
Page 180 - Scriptures, and with a life agreeable to the same; consider how studious ye ought to be in reading and learning the Scriptures, and in framing the manners, both of yourselves and of them that specially pertain unto you, according to the rule of the same Scriptures; and for this self-same cause, how ye ought to forsake and set aside (as much as you may) all worldly cares and studies.
Page 385 - May feel the heart's decaying, — It is a place where happy saints May weep amid their praying : Yet let the grief and humbleness, As low as silence, languish ! Earth surely now may give her calm To whom she gave her anguish.
Page 124 - One is greatly struck at the place he occupies in the writings of all the great medical authors at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Morton, Willis, Boerhaave, Gaubius, Bordeu, etc., always speak of him as second in sagacity to ' the divine Hippocrates
Page 402 - Reef in the foresail there ! Hold the helm fast ! So — let the vessel wear : There swept the blast. " What of the night watchman, What of the night ? " "Cloudy — all quiet; No land yet — all's right.