Souvenirs of a summer in Germany in 1836 [by M.F. Dickson].1837 |
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... Paintings CHAPTER IX . 149 Arrival at Langen - Schwalbach - House - hunting- Pursuits of the visitors - Cottage bonnets - Women and cows - A lady scarecrow 169 CHAPTER X. The Lutheran church - A ramble in the X CONTENTS .
... Paintings CHAPTER IX . 149 Arrival at Langen - Schwalbach - House - hunting- Pursuits of the visitors - Cottage bonnets - Women and cows - A lady scarecrow 169 CHAPTER X. The Lutheran church - A ramble in the X CONTENTS .
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... paintings ; her scarlet neckerchief looked just out of the folds , and was put on without a wrinkle - there were plenty in the old dame's face . Spotless white stockings , velvet shoes with buckles , and the flowered cotton cloak folded ...
... paintings ; her scarlet neckerchief looked just out of the folds , and was put on without a wrinkle - there were plenty in the old dame's face . Spotless white stockings , velvet shoes with buckles , and the flowered cotton cloak folded ...
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... painters ex- celled in their art - there is something so pe- culiarly picturesque in the scenes they dwelt among and loved to delineate , that these could not fail of calling forth every latent spark of genius 18 SOUVENIRS OF A.
... painters ex- celled in their art - there is something so pe- culiarly picturesque in the scenes they dwelt among and loved to delineate , that these could not fail of calling forth every latent spark of genius 18 SOUVENIRS OF A.
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... paintings , and particu- larly those on scriptural subjects , where sheep are so often introduced , recur perpetually to the mind . The whole outline of the animal is far more graceful than in those of our coun- try , and in the curve ...
... paintings , and particu- larly those on scriptural subjects , where sheep are so often introduced , recur perpetually to the mind . The whole outline of the animal is far more graceful than in those of our coun- try , and in the curve ...
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... strongly expressive of suffering . There is a collection of paintings in this palace . A small one of Rembrandt , -the Ado- ration of the Shepherds , -is exquisite . The whole of the light comes from the body of the SUMMER IN GERMANY . 41.
... strongly expressive of suffering . There is a collection of paintings in this palace . A small one of Rembrandt , -the Ado- ration of the Shepherds , -is exquisite . The whole of the light comes from the body of the SUMMER IN GERMANY . 41.
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Page 290 - As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
Page 279 - My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
Page 73 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, From doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; And call the sabbath a delight, The holy of the Lord, honourable; And shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, Nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Page 93 - The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne ; But tell me, nymphs ! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE SAME CITY.
Page 209 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 296 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee : nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 54 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 280 - I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the sight of all his people : in the courts of the Lord's house, even in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem.
Page 279 - Where is thy God? 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a nuil ti tude that kept hoh/day.
Page 296 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?