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Page 65
... Italian Courts ; and the whole of her correspondence is seasoned with a fine insular savour of admiration for British freedom and British comfort , expressed in forcible and epigrammatic terms . Horace Walpole might , with his ...
... Italian Courts ; and the whole of her correspondence is seasoned with a fine insular savour of admiration for British freedom and British comfort , expressed in forcible and epigrammatic terms . Horace Walpole might , with his ...
Page 67
... Italian cardinal the latest news from the Vatican . All this without the slightest pose or effort . She brought up her three sons in a way of her own , utterly unlike any English system of education ever heard of . A Catholic herself ...
... Italian cardinal the latest news from the Vatican . All this without the slightest pose or effort . She brought up her three sons in a way of her own , utterly unlike any English system of education ever heard of . A Catholic herself ...
Page 124
... Italy was never so purely Gothic as in other countries . It seems as if the classical leaven still worked in it . At the worst , in Italy it is never absolutely ugly . Giotto's figures , stiff as they are , have a certain grace and ...
... Italy was never so purely Gothic as in other countries . It seems as if the classical leaven still worked in it . At the worst , in Italy it is never absolutely ugly . Giotto's figures , stiff as they are , have a certain grace and ...
Page 125
... Italy . It seems as if beauty and gaiety were born again , that the wholesome delight in life which was the best side of the classic civilisation had finally conquered the gloomy horrors of the dark ages . The great god Pan revisited ...
... Italy . It seems as if beauty and gaiety were born again , that the wholesome delight in life which was the best side of the classic civilisation had finally conquered the gloomy horrors of the dark ages . The great god Pan revisited ...
Page 127
... Italian was the handsomest race in Europe , so that the painters had better models to choose from ; but what was probably of greater importance was that the classical influence never entirely died out , and also that Italy was full of ...
... Italian was the handsomest race in Europe , so that the painters had better models to choose from ; but what was probably of greater importance was that the classical influence never entirely died out , and also that Italy was full of ...
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Page 266 - Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Page 8 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 589 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 629 - And I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 589 - Well, it is earth with me; silence resumes her reign: I will be patient and proud, and soberly acquiesce. Give me the keys. I feel for the common chord again, Sliding by semitones till I sink to the minor, — yes, And I blunt it into a ninth, and I stand on alien ground, Surveying awhile the heights I rolled from into the deep; Which, hark, I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C Major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep.
Page 354 - The valleys stand so thick with corn, that they laugh and sing.
Page 20 - Lincoln, in behalf of the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Church of England.
Page 622 - The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study.
Page 87 - Articles aforesaid shall in no case occasion any obstacle to the measures which the Imperial Ottoman Government may think it necessary to take in order to insure by its own forces the defence of its other possessions situated on the eastern coast of the Red Sea.
Page 95 - The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power, or to any combination of European powers.