The North British review1847 |
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Página 141
... colouring , nor even with drawing for softness of expression , yet offers in some respects particular advantages over those two branches of art . It reproduces to an infinite numerical amount the compo- sitions of those able masters in ...
... colouring , nor even with drawing for softness of expression , yet offers in some respects particular advantages over those two branches of art . It reproduces to an infinite numerical amount the compo- sitions of those able masters in ...
Página 143
... coloured stuffs manufactured by the Indians , under the name of painted or flowered tissues . Now , it is well known that the Indians at the present day still continue to prac- tise a rude method of printing their manufactures from ...
... coloured stuffs manufactured by the Indians , under the name of painted or flowered tissues . Now , it is well known that the Indians at the present day still continue to prac- tise a rude method of printing their manufactures from ...
Página 144
... were covered over with some coloured substance , which , by means of pressure , was trans- * De Guignes . + Eméric David , Traité sur la Gravure . ferred on stuff or upon paper . Schoolmasters sometimes em- 144 Engraving .
... were covered over with some coloured substance , which , by means of pressure , was trans- * De Guignes . + Eméric David , Traité sur la Gravure . ferred on stuff or upon paper . Schoolmasters sometimes em- 144 Engraving .
Página 146
... coloured over according to the custom of the time , but only the red paint with a little green and bistre re- main . The upper part of the print is occupied by three busts of angels , holding each in either hand a crown of flowers . Two ...
... coloured over according to the custom of the time , but only the red paint with a little green and bistre re- main . The upper part of the print is occupied by three busts of angels , holding each in either hand a crown of flowers . Two ...
Página 147
... coloured . The style of drawing is un doubtedly German . Pasted in the same old manuscript is another wood - print re- presenting the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary , and this print , says Ottley , is evidently by the same hand as that ...
... coloured . The style of drawing is un doubtedly German . Pasted in the same old manuscript is another wood - print re- presenting the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary , and this print , says Ottley , is evidently by the same hand as that ...
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Página 419 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Página 137 - Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier, while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest.
Página 415 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Página 412 - ... too bright, nor good, for human nature's daily food;" it is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity...
Página 43 - All my jewels in like sort take thou with thee, For they are fitting for thy wife, but not for me. ' I will spend my days in prayer, Love and all her laws...
Página 403 - ... thoughts by which the picture is separated at once from hundreds of equal merit, as far as mere painting goes, by which it ranks as a work of high art, and stamps its author, not as the neat imitator of the texture of a skin, or the fold of a drapery, but as the Man of Mind.
Página 412 - And instead of this, there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure.
Página 422 - If, • for every rebuke that we utter of men's vices, we put forth a oklim upon their hearts ; if for every assertion of God's demands from them, we could substitute a display of his kindness to them ; if side by side, with every warning of death, we could exhibit proofs and promises of immortality ; if, in fine, instead of assuming the being of an awful Deity, which men, though they cannot and dare not deny, are always unwilling, sometimes unable, to conceive, we were to show them a near, visible,...
Página 406 - Why we receive pleasure from some forms and colours, and not from others, is no more to be asked or answered than why we like sugar and dislike wormwood.
Página 415 - Meholathite : and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD : and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.