The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 14;Volume 18William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1866 |
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... beauty is always hidden from those who look for " nature . " A suggestion of the sensuous drives away the spiritual . You cannot see the soul looking out from the eye if you are speculating on the colour of the pupil . You cannot feel ...
... beauty is always hidden from those who look for " nature . " A suggestion of the sensuous drives away the spiritual . You cannot see the soul looking out from the eye if you are speculating on the colour of the pupil . You cannot feel ...
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... beauty depend . That is not art in which there is not some purely human element , nor is that art from which nature is absent . There is material and spiritual in all art , body and soul , nature and man . machine exhibits this . It is ...
... beauty depend . That is not art in which there is not some purely human element , nor is that art from which nature is absent . There is material and spiritual in all art , body and soul , nature and man . machine exhibits this . It is ...
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... beauty is so quiet , so gentle , so intangible , that it can only make itself completely felt by those who will give themselves up to it . The true artist does not captivate - he asks for self - surrender . Sit down before his work ...
... beauty is so quiet , so gentle , so intangible , that it can only make itself completely felt by those who will give themselves up to it . The true artist does not captivate - he asks for self - surrender . Sit down before his work ...
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... beauty in a picture . To represent the beautiful aspects of nature may be one aim of art , but it is far from its highest aim . We need something more than mere copies of nature . The something in man which there is not in nature ...
... beauty in a picture . To represent the beautiful aspects of nature may be one aim of art , but it is far from its highest aim . We need something more than mere copies of nature . The something in man which there is not in nature ...
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... beauty , and wealth at her command , must she despair ? But her youth had been stained , her beauty had lost its freshness ; and as for her wealth , had she not stolen it ? Did not the weight of the theft sit so heavy on her , that her ...
... beauty , and wealth at her command , must she despair ? But her youth had been stained , her beauty had lost its freshness ; and as for her wealth , had she not stolen it ? Did not the weight of the theft sit so heavy on her , that her ...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volumes 9-10;Volume 83;Volume 1901 William Makepeace Thackeray Visualização integral - 1901 |
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Página 583 - Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
Página 455 - tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all : Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows, what is't to leave betimes ?
Página 110 - If I were asked where English poetry got these three things, its turn for style, its turn for melancholy, and its turn for natural magic, for catching and rendering the charm of nature in a wonderfully near and vivid way, — I should answer, with some doubt, that it got much of its turn for style from a Celtic source ; with less doubt, that it got much of its melancholy from a Celtic source ; with no doubt at all, that from a Celtic source it got nearly all its natural magic.
Página 225 - ... were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams...
Página 456 - If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
Página 118 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 122 - These are the forgeries of jealousy: And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Página 117 - Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'Tis something better not to be.
Página 122 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Página 116 - ... residue with the very soul of the Celtic genius in it, and which has the proud distinction of having brought this soul of the Celtic genius into contact with the genius of the nations of modern Europe and enriched all our poetry by it. Woody Morven, and echoing Sora, and Selma with its silent halls! we all owe them a debt of gratitude, and when we are unjust enough to forget it, may the Muse forget us.