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... interesting . They are primitifs in their way no less than their predecessors depicted in the Pavillon de Marsan yonder . The little schoolboys in their capes and pointed hoods , and neat bare legs , as they fly past ; the employés and ...
... interesting . They are primitifs in their way no less than their predecessors depicted in the Pavillon de Marsan yonder . The little schoolboys in their capes and pointed hoods , and neat bare legs , as they fly past ; the employés and ...
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... interesting work ' La Renaissance des Arts à la Cour de France , ' gives a graphic description of the duties of the Court painter in the sixteenth century . The post was first instituted in the Middle Ages , when it was ordained that ...
... interesting work ' La Renaissance des Arts à la Cour de France , ' gives a graphic description of the duties of the Court painter in the sixteenth century . The post was first instituted in the Middle Ages , when it was ordained that ...
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... interesting things about Janet is that he stoutly resisted the Italian influence which Francis I. so admired , and , while Primatice and Rosso reigned supreme , Clouet worked quietly on , knowing well what his own work was worth ...
... interesting things about Janet is that he stoutly resisted the Italian influence which Francis I. so admired , and , while Primatice and Rosso reigned supreme , Clouet worked quietly on , knowing well what his own work was worth ...
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... interesting book of reproductions , edited by Lord Ronald Gower , from the Earl of Carlisle's collection at Castle Howard , contains hundreds of the portraits of the people we read of at that time , beginning with the royal house of ...
... interesting book of reproductions , edited by Lord Ronald Gower , from the Earl of Carlisle's collection at Castle Howard , contains hundreds of the portraits of the people we read of at that time , beginning with the royal house of ...
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... interesting moment . The last account of him is found in a letter from Cocks to the Company , written at the close of the next year : Our good friend Captain William Adams , who was so long before us in Japan , departed out of this ...
... interesting moment . The last account of him is found in a letter from Cocks to the Company , written at the close of the next year : Our good friend Captain William Adams , who was so long before us in Japan , departed out of this ...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volumes 9-10;Volume 83;Volume 1901 William Makepeace Thackeray Visualização integral - 1901 |
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Página 617 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Página 169 - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
Página 738 - MELANCHOLY Bird, a winter's day Thou standest by the margin of the pool, And, taught by God, dost thy whole being school To Patience, which all evil can allay. God has appointed thee the Fish thy prey; And given thyself a lesson to the Fool Unthrifty, to submit to moral rule, And his unthinking course by thee to weigh. There need not schools, nor the Professor's chair, Though these be good, true wisdom to impart; He, who has not enough for these to spare Of time, or gold, may yet amend his heart,...
Página 405 - ... he was clearly of opinion, that the persons were bewitched; and said, that in Denmark there had been lately a great discovery of witches, who used the very same way of afflicting persons, by conveying pins into them, and crooked as these pins were, with needles and nails. And his opinion was, that the devil in such cases did work upon the bodies of men and women, upon a natural foundation, (that is) to stir up, and excite such humours superabounding in their bodies to a great excess...
Página 405 - ... did in an extraordinary manner afflict them with such distempers as their bodies were most subject to, as particularly appeared in these children; for he conceived, that these swooning fits were natural, and nothing else but...
Página 739 - His blows were not undecided and ineffectual — lumbering like Mr. Wordsworth's epic poetry, nor wavering like Mr. Coleridge's lyric prose, nor short of the mark like Mr. Brougham's speeches, nor wide of it like Mr. Canning's wit, nor foul like the Quarterly, nor let balls like the Edinburgh Review.
Página 614 - Camp and the greyhounds, they had at all times free access to his study: he never considered their tattle as any disturbance; they went and came as pleased their fancy; he was always ready to answer their questions; and when they, unconscious how he was engaged, entreated him to lay down his pen and tell them a story, he would take them on his knee, repeat a ballad or a legend, kiss them, and set them down again to their marbles or ninepins, and resume his labour as if refreshed by the interruption....
Página 612 - My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.
Página 623 - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Página 516 - the father of chemistry and the uncle of the Earl of Cork...