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... natural history . Those sciences are not , however , so fashionable as chemistry ; they are not susceptible of any brilliant exhibitions ; there is no noise , no fire , and the amphitheatre never fills , but for Mr. Davy . The resources ...
... natural history . Those sciences are not , however , so fashionable as chemistry ; they are not susceptible of any brilliant exhibitions ; there is no noise , no fire , and the amphitheatre never fills , but for Mr. Davy . The resources ...
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... nature in action , and characteristic action , and had fixed it on his canvas at one stroke , with perfect resemblance , but a resemblance which moves and thinks . It is impossible to imagine any thing more perfect than his children ...
... nature in action , and characteristic action , and had fixed it on his canvas at one stroke , with perfect resemblance , but a resemblance which moves and thinks . It is impossible to imagine any thing more perfect than his children ...
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Louis Simond. historical pictures . There is more originality , - more knowledge of nature in this branch of art ... natural situations , interesting and characteristic , without caricature , and often with much dramatic effect . The ...
Louis Simond. historical pictures . There is more originality , - more knowledge of nature in this branch of art ... natural situations , interesting and characteristic , without caricature , and often with much dramatic effect . The ...
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... nature itself , and neither too high nor too low . All the details of furniture , utensils , and ornaments , are finished with the great- est care , and with the greatest minuteness ; and , although perfectly distinct , not obtrusive ...
... nature itself , and neither too high nor too low . All the details of furniture , utensils , and ornaments , are finished with the great- est care , and with the greatest minuteness ; and , although perfectly distinct , not obtrusive ...
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... nature , like hay to horses , only a little boiled instead of dried . Such a dinner as I have described is now perhaps a little antiquated . Among people of fashion the master and mistress generally abandon the ends of the table , which ...
... nature , like hay to horses , only a little boiled instead of dried . Such a dinner as I have described is now perhaps a little antiquated . Among people of fashion the master and mistress generally abandon the ends of the table , which ...
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Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years ..., Volume 1 Louis Simond Visualização integral - 1817 |
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Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain, during ... 1810 and 1811 ... Louis Simond Visualização integral - 1815 |
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Página 135 - Hell is murky! — Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? — Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? — What, will these hands ne'er be clean ? — No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Página 362 - ... know what to trust to; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be!
Página 362 - Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Página 134 - tis not done: the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't.
Página 222 - Money as they shall think fit) a convenient Stock of Flax, Hemp, Wool, Thread, Iron, and other necessary Ware and Stuff, to set the Poor on Work: And also competent Sums of Money for and towards the necessary Relief of the Lame, Impotent, Old, Blind, and such other among them being Poor, and not able to work, and...
Página 133 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Página 25 - At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. *Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Página 133 - I have given suck; and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn, as you Have done to this.
Página 319 - Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle air, Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare. xv. From the steep promontory gazed The stranger, raptured and amazed, And,
Página iv - Longworth, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: " The Trust, a comedy, in five acts, by Charles Breck," in conformity to the act of the congress of the United States...