Walks in London, Volume 2Daldy, 1878 - London (England) |
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... brought as victims before Iphigenia - one of the earliest and best pictures of the master . 122. D. Wilkie . The Village Festival . 922. Sir Thomas Lawrence , 1769-1830 . A Child with a Kid . 241. Sir D. Wilkie . The Parish Beadle . 785 ...
... brought as victims before Iphigenia - one of the earliest and best pictures of the master . 122. D. Wilkie . The Village Festival . 922. Sir Thomas Lawrence , 1769-1830 . A Child with a Kid . 241. Sir D. Wilkie . The Parish Beadle . 785 ...
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... , supposed to represent David and his companions at the Cave of Adullam . One of the soldiers has just brought the water from the well of Bethlehem . The figures are stiff , the quiet landscape glorious . This picture , 18 WALKS IN LONDON .
... , supposed to represent David and his companions at the Cave of Adullam . One of the soldiers has just brought the water from the well of Bethlehem . The figures are stiff , the quiet landscape glorious . This picture , 18 WALKS IN LONDON .
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... brought to Rome c . B.C. 204. Painted in monochrome for the Venetian , Francesco Cornaro , who claimed descent from the Gens Cornelia -from the Palazzo Cornaro at Venice . The drapery is nobly painted , and the figures full of varied ...
... brought to Rome c . B.C. 204. Painted in monochrome for the Venetian , Francesco Cornaro , who claimed descent from the Gens Cornelia -from the Palazzo Cornaro at Venice . The drapery is nobly painted , and the figures full of varied ...
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... brought him bread from the city . From the Cagnoli altar in Santa Maria della Scala at Verona . 18. Bernardino Luini . Christ disputing with the Doctors - a very beautiful picture injured by restoration . The Saviour is twenty- four ...
... brought him bread from the city . From the Cagnoli altar in Santa Maria della Scala at Verona . 18. Bernardino Luini . Christ disputing with the Doctors - a very beautiful picture injured by restoration . The Saviour is twenty- four ...
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... brought from Windsor as the prisoner of the Parliament , his usual attendants , with one exception , being debarred access to him , and being replaced by common soldiers , who sat smoking and drinking even in the royal bedchamber ...
... brought from Windsor as the prisoner of the Parliament , his usual attendants , with one exception , being debarred access to him , and being replaced by common soldiers , who sat smoking and drinking even in the royal bedchamber ...
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Page 233 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 234 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 481 - And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness ; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
Page 294 - Mighty victor, mighty lord ! Low on his funeral couch he lies ! No pitying heart, no eye afford . A tear to grace his obsequies.
Page 364 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 193 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you, send for some of them.
Page 239 - The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Page 92 - He who still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left; And he who now to sense, now nonsense, leaning...
Page 241 - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Page 319 - Malcom, Land, rediv. INSCRIPTION ON A MONUMENT ALLUDED TO IN THE SKETCH Here lyes the Loyal Duke of Newcastle, and his Duchess his second wife, by whom he had no issue. Her name was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to the Lord Lucas of Colchester, a noble family ; for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.