Memorials of a Tour on the Continent: To which are Added Miscellaneous PoemsW. Pickering, 1845 - 311 páginas |
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... stopped for breath upon the landing place , I saw him turn to the wall , unobserved as he thought , and kiss a small picture of the Virgin with the sincerest and most touching air of devotion : then , as 34 MEMORIALS IN.
... stopped for breath upon the landing place , I saw him turn to the wall , unobserved as he thought , and kiss a small picture of the Virgin with the sincerest and most touching air of devotion : then , as 34 MEMORIALS IN.
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... picture less striking when they rest from their labours at noon . You may then , if so in- clined , study more closely their countenances , and their general appearance , as they lie asleep on the fragments of rock which they have been ...
... picture less striking when they rest from their labours at noon . You may then , if so in- clined , study more closely their countenances , and their general appearance , as they lie asleep on the fragments of rock which they have been ...
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... picture of a given locality . Dover cliff , it must be confessed , has little enough to do with Scylla and Charybdis ; but it would be as unreasonable to argue from Shakspeare that Dover cliff has altered , as to argue from Homer that ...
... picture of a given locality . Dover cliff , it must be confessed , has little enough to do with Scylla and Charybdis ; but it would be as unreasonable to argue from Shakspeare that Dover cliff has altered , as to argue from Homer that ...
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... picture shops ; but were filing gently a- cross the snow , one after another , just as you see deer in a park ; nor did they appear to take any notice of us . Hereabouts we came to some ugly crevasses in the glacier , with snow bridges ...
... picture shops ; but were filing gently a- cross the snow , one after another , just as you see deer in a park ; nor did they appear to take any notice of us . Hereabouts we came to some ugly crevasses in the glacier , with snow bridges ...
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... picture is a surface , and is therefore , geometrically speaking , of two dimensions only . Its unities of time and place are necessarily , as in a piece of sculpture , perfect ; and so ought its unity of action to be ; albeit , greater ...
... picture is a surface , and is therefore , geometrically speaking , of two dimensions only . Its unities of time and place are necessarily , as in a piece of sculpture , perfect ; and so ought its unity of action to be ; albeit , greater ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ancient Apennine appear ascent beauty beneath BETCHWORTH breath bright Casa del Bosco Catania Chamonix child cliff cloud Col du Géant cold colour Courmayeur crevasses Daguerrotype dark dear descended Devouassoud earth effect Etna EXTRACT FROM MANUSCRIPT fire Florence flowers fresco gaze Géant Genevieve glacier glorious golden grace guides hand hast heard heart heaven height hills hour hues John Herschel La Verna lava light look MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL marble Maurice Mont Blanc Monte Nuovo morning mountain Naples Nature night Nisida Note o'clock o'er ocean once painting passed picture Pisa river Mole rocks round scene scenery sculpture serac shade shore sight slope snow song SONNET soul sound spirit stars statue stone stood stream summit sweet sweet oblivion thee thine things thou thoughts truth turn twas vapours Venice voice walk weather whilst wild wind wing
Passagens conhecidas
Página 175 - You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 127 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Página 175 - But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive...
Página 182 - ... che nella capitale; tutte queste doti vere ed uniche di quel fortunato e libero paese, mi rapirono...
Página 158 - ... if what has happened in the case of sculpture, had likewise happened in regard to their paintings, and we had the good fortune to possess what the ancients themselves esteemed their master-pieces, I have no doubt but we should find their figures as correctly drawn as the Laocoon, and probably...
Página 158 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his goodness to give you safe deliverance, and hath preserved you in the great danger...
Página 170 - ... virginis est verae facies, quam vivere credas et, si non obstet reverentia, velle moveri: ars adeo latet arte sua. miratur et haurit pectore Pygmalion simulati corporis ignes.
Página 182 - ... in queste tante diramazioni della pubblica felicità, provenienti dal miglior governo. Onde, benché io allora non ne studiassi profondamente la costituzione, madre di tanta prosperità, ne seppi però abbastanza osservare e valutare gli effetti divini.
Página 174 - Sir, the year growing ancient, — Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth Of trembling winter, — the fairest flowers o...
Página 133 - ... scramble up to the base of a small column of ice, that communicated with a sort of platform, on which there was firm, though scanty standing room, and whence the bridge might be immediately reached. The ice column looked insecure ; and the more so, from the quantity of brilliantly white fresh-fallen snow that had lodged against it. Its firmness, however, was put to the proof by blows with an ice pole, and it was partially cleared of the fresh snow. Devouassoud then cautiously cut steps round...