Essays : on self-loveSaunders and Otley, 1836 |
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... to their true characters , proportions and As a confirmation of these re- appearances . marks , the antique portraits of individuals were or men . often superior even to the personification of their gods . 116 ON THE FINE ARTS .
... to their true characters , proportions and As a confirmation of these re- appearances . marks , the antique portraits of individuals were or men . often superior even to the personification of their gods . 116 ON THE FINE ARTS .
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... portraits , in natural and expressive attitudes , full of the loftiest thought and feeling , and as varied as they are fine . It is this reliance on the power of nature which has produced these masterpieces by the Prince of Painters ...
... portraits , in natural and expressive attitudes , full of the loftiest thought and feeling , and as varied as they are fine . It is this reliance on the power of nature which has produced these masterpieces by the Prince of Painters ...
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... portraits to say that they have as much expression , that is , convey as fine an idea of intellect and feeling as the historical heads of Raphael . The chief differ- ence appears to be that the expression in Raphael is more imaginary ...
... portraits to say that they have as much expression , that is , convey as fine an idea of intellect and feeling as the historical heads of Raphael . The chief differ- ence appears to be that the expression in Raphael is more imaginary ...
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... portraits . The daring spirit and irritable passions of the age and country are distinctly stamped upon their coun- tenances , and can be as little mistaken as the costume which they wear . The portraits of Raphael , though full of ...
... portraits . The daring spirit and irritable passions of the age and country are distinctly stamped upon their coun- tenances , and can be as little mistaken as the costume which they wear . The portraits of Raphael , though full of ...
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... portraits as the harmony of the colour- ing . The similarity sometimes objected to his heads is partly national and ... portrait ; for the hired dresses with which our historical painters clothe their figures sit no more easily on the ...
... portraits as the harmony of the colour- ing . The similarity sometimes objected to his heads is partly national and ... portrait ; for the hired dresses with which our historical painters clothe their figures sit no more easily on the ...
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abstract action admirable affection artist beauty benevolence Brentford character Cimabue Coleridge colour common connexion Correggio Count Ugolino delight desire distinction distress Domenichino Dr Johnson Elgin Marbles equally ESSAY excellence excited expression face faculty fancy feeling fight figure Gas-man genius give grace habit hand head Helvetius Hogarth human idea imagination imitation impressions impulse individual interest Jem Belcher king Lamb live look main chance manner matter means ment Michael Angelo mind moral motives nature ness Nether Stowey never nexion object opinion ourselves pain painted painter passed passion perfection person pleasure poet portraits present pretend principle pursuit racter Raphael reason refined Rembrandt Reynolds seems self-interest self-love selfish sensation sense Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds spirit strange matters suppose sympathy taste thing thought tion Titian true truth turn vanity Whigs WILLIAM HAZLITT wish
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Página 406 - Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Página 214 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 405 - In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility : 5 But, when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Página 364 - As he gave out this text, his voice ' rose like a stream of rich distilled perfumes;' and when he came to the two last words, which he pronounced loud, deep, and distinct, it seemed to me, who was then young, as if the sounds had echoed from the bottom of the human heart, and as if that prayer might have floated in solemn silence through the universe. The idea of St. John came into my mind, ' of one crying in the wilderness, who had his loins girt about, and whose food was locusts and wild honey.
Página 85 - Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow ; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found...
Página 344 - But why then publish? Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write; Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise; And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read; Ev'n mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more.
Página 453 - Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe.
Página 272 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
Página 386 - Coleridge's cottage. I think I see him now. He answered in some degree to his friend's description of him, but was more gaunt and Don Quixote-like. He was quaintly dressed (according to the costume of that unconstrained period) in a brown fustian jacket and striped pantaloons. There was something of a roll, a lounge in his gait, not unlike his own
Página 279 - Search then the ruling passion: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.