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... least to form a solid and permanent portion of the foundation , of our future public or national taste in works of Art . Will my readers do me the honour to regard the statement of this simple postulate , as a satisfactory reason for my ...
... least to form a solid and permanent portion of the foundation , of our future public or national taste in works of Art . Will my readers do me the honour to regard the statement of this simple postulate , as a satisfactory reason for my ...
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... least a few more of the best pictures of our own school and our own age , found places there ? And would not the leading spirits of the present age , as well as of posterity , rejoice in a favourable opportunity of instituting such ...
... least a few more of the best pictures of our own school and our own age , found places there ? And would not the leading spirits of the present age , as well as of posterity , rejoice in a favourable opportunity of instituting such ...
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... least on some points , be liable to reprehension from the stream - goers , particularly if I should declare my fears that posterity will regard the present , as rather too much of an amused and amusing age . - Too much of an age which ...
... least on some points , be liable to reprehension from the stream - goers , particularly if I should declare my fears that posterity will regard the present , as rather too much of an amused and amusing age . - Too much of an age which ...
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... least in some measure , this haste , where pecuniary and mental profit stand opposed to each other , that has given such a careless , flippant , superficial , temporary , touch - and- go , air and character , to the printed notices ...
... least in some measure , this haste , where pecuniary and mental profit stand opposed to each other , that has given such a careless , flippant , superficial , temporary , touch - and- go , air and character , to the printed notices ...
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... least excep- tionable refutation of the theory of these picture - critics , and their tribe of puffers , is to be found in their own practice . You have but to draw aside a flimsy veil , and they themselves exhibit the unsoundness of ...
... least excep- tionable refutation of the theory of these picture - critics , and their tribe of puffers , is to be found in their own practice . You have but to draw aside a flimsy veil , and they themselves exhibit the unsoundness of ...
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Page 47 - The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that sculks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
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Page 235 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole ; Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
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Page 271 - Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me; for he was before me.
Page 187 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 273 - Parched body, hollow eyes, some uncouth thing Made him appear, long since from earth exiled. There burst he forth: "All ye whose hopes rely On God, with me amidst these deserts mourn, Repent, repent, and from old errors turn!
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Page 263 - My best guide now : methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe, Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, When, for their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss.