Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 74W. Blackwood, 1853 - England |
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... nature flowing into it ; the comprehensive power of fancy using more and more the apprehensive power of imitation ... natural for adoration . The popular veneration returned to the old , the formal Byzantine type : superstition loves not ...
... nature flowing into it ; the comprehensive power of fancy using more and more the apprehensive power of imitation ... natural for adoration . The popular veneration returned to the old , the formal Byzantine type : superstition loves not ...
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... nature . The appeal is to the faith through the feelings , rather than through the imagination . Morales and Ribera ... natural . We believe it will be ever so with devotional works of art , if represen- tations of saints and Madonnas ...
... nature . The appeal is to the faith through the feelings , rather than through the imagination . Morales and Ribera ... natural . We believe it will be ever so with devotional works of art , if represen- tations of saints and Madonnas ...
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... nature alike odious . We love and would encourage the child's superstition that spares the robin - red- breast , because he covered the babes in the wood with leaves , and detest the religiously assumed cruel supersti- tion of the boy ...
... nature alike odious . We love and would encourage the child's superstition that spares the robin - red- breast , because he covered the babes in the wood with leaves , and detest the religiously assumed cruel supersti- tion of the boy ...
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... nature like the Curate's , quick and violent . Reproaches from Fane would have hardened him , and he might have brazened out his conduct even to himself for a short time ; but his resentment had melted , his firmness had deserted him ...
... nature like the Curate's , quick and violent . Reproaches from Fane would have hardened him , and he might have brazened out his conduct even to himself for a short time ; but his resentment had melted , his firmness had deserted him ...
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... nature of it , and afforded conclusive evidence that the stranger who had accompanied his master was Colonel Bagot Lee . He tried also to sound the veterinary surgeon , but that gentleman was never to be found when wanted in the ...
... nature of it , and afforded conclusive evidence that the stranger who had accompanied his master was Colonel Bagot Lee . He tried also to sound the veterinary surgeon , but that gentleman was never to be found when wanted in the ...
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Page 314 - And therefore is the glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthroned and sphered Amidst the other ; whose medicinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts like the commandment of a king, Sans check to good and bad...
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Page 458 - And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand, Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd...
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Page 180 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
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Page 456 - What man dare, I dare : Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear. The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger ; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble : or be alive again.