Essays in History and ArtW. Blackwood and sons, 1862 - 526 páginas |
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... stands amazed at the spectacle which his new - born vision reveals to him the sights are all strange , but not so the emotion which they produce in him . The same nameless pleasure , the same indescribable sensation of enjoyment , which ...
... stands amazed at the spectacle which his new - born vision reveals to him the sights are all strange , but not so the emotion which they produce in him . The same nameless pleasure , the same indescribable sensation of enjoyment , which ...
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... stand . But sup- pose - in order to bring out the peculiar qualities of various colours as backgrounds - it were proposed to us to take each of these sculptures by itself , and assign to it a wall of such a colour as would show it off ...
... stand . But sup- pose - in order to bring out the peculiar qualities of various colours as backgrounds - it were proposed to us to take each of these sculptures by itself , and assign to it a wall of such a colour as would show it off ...
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... stand amazed , but which are only a realisation of the sublime conceptions of those sages of the Past ? The deeper modern Science goes , the more does it come in contact with laws which express them- selves by Numbers . The more the ...
... stand amazed , but which are only a realisation of the sublime conceptions of those sages of the Past ? The deeper modern Science goes , the more does it come in contact with laws which express them- selves by Numbers . The more the ...
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Robert Hogarth Patterson. -- & c . - in other words , they stand to each other in the simplest proportions ; and thus combine more perfectly than any other possible series of notes , their blending vibrations having the greatest number ...
Robert Hogarth Patterson. -- & c . - in other words , they stand to each other in the simplest proportions ; and thus combine more perfectly than any other possible series of notes , their blending vibrations having the greatest number ...
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... stand . At certain places in the passes of the Alps , if a horn be sounded , you will hear the notes echoed and re - echoed harmoniously by the rocks for a comparatively long time ; whereas in other places , owing to a different ...
... stand . At certain places in the passes of the Alps , if a horn be sounded , you will hear the notes echoed and re - echoed harmoniously by the rocks for a comparatively long time ; whereas in other places , owing to a different ...
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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.