Essays in History and ArtW. Blackwood and sons, 1862 - 526 páginas |
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... native in character to the soul , yet so rarely met with , that the spirit yearns towards it as to a visitor from a higher sphere from which we are exiles , and for which , in such moments , our heart is pining , it may be unconsciously ...
... native in character to the soul , yet so rarely met with , that the spirit yearns towards it as to a visitor from a higher sphere from which we are exiles , and for which , in such moments , our heart is pining , it may be unconsciously ...
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... native skies . Or take the living light itself , and refract it through prisms of crystal , and see how the dissevered tremors of the ray reappear on the screen in a band of many - hued light , ―red , blue , orange , green , yellow ...
... native skies . Or take the living light itself , and refract it through prisms of crystal , and see how the dissevered tremors of the ray reappear on the screen in a band of many - hued light , ―red , blue , orange , green , yellow ...
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... native climes of the sapphire , the diamond , and the emerald , -of sun- sets unspeakably gorgeous , and of night - skies through the azure of whose transparent depths the eye wanders upwards until it loses itself as if on the threshold ...
... native climes of the sapphire , the diamond , and the emerald , -of sun- sets unspeakably gorgeous , and of night - skies through the azure of whose transparent depths the eye wanders upwards until it loses itself as if on the threshold ...
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... native land ( about 520 B.C. ) , he brought with him , we are told , a system of Analogy , or key to all harmonious proportions . Certain it is , that he indoctrinated his disciples in a science of numbers , a system of proportions , of ...
... native land ( about 520 B.C. ) , he brought with him , we are told , a system of Analogy , or key to all harmonious proportions . Certain it is , that he indoctrinated his disciples in a science of numbers , a system of proportions , of ...
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... native powers , the soul , as we have seen , can conceive this same idea for itself , independently of external assistance ; and so the image is as truly conceived by the latter process as by the former , -although the image produced by ...
... native powers , the soul , as we have seen , can conceive this same idea for itself , independently of external assistance ; and so the image is as truly conceived by the latter process as by the former , -although the image produced by ...
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Página 195 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature and the encouragement of the learned Natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British Territories in India...
Página 362 - Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower. Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.