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Page 48
... pictures he was more taken up with what is usually and justly the most tire- some department , the portraits , than with all else . He was not learned in engravings , and made no attempt at collecting them , so that the following list ...
... pictures he was more taken up with what is usually and justly the most tire- some department , the portraits , than with all else . He was not learned in engravings , and made no attempt at collecting them , so that the following list ...
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... picture ; such a picture as one would buy without knowing anything of the subject . So true it is , that imaginative painters , men gifted and accustomed to render their own ideal conceptions in form and colour , grasp and impress on ...
... picture ; such a picture as one would buy without knowing anything of the subject . So true it is , that imaginative painters , men gifted and accustomed to render their own ideal conceptions in form and colour , grasp and impress on ...
Page 58
... picture of the Minister's Visit , which I value very much , as giving the force and depth , the momentum , so to speak , of his serious look . He is sitting in a cottar's house , reading the Bible to an old bed - ridden woman , the farm ...
... picture of the Minister's Visit , which I value very much , as giving the force and depth , the momentum , so to speak , of his serious look . He is sitting in a cottar's house , reading the Bible to an old bed - ridden woman , the farm ...
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... picture . Mr. Hill's Calotypes we like better than all the rest ; because what in them is true , is absolutely so , and they have some delicate render- ings which are all but beyond the power of any human artist ; for though man's art ...
... picture . Mr. Hill's Calotypes we like better than all the rest ; because what in them is true , is absolutely so , and they have some delicate render- ings which are all but beyond the power of any human artist ; for though man's art ...
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... pictures , and all we call Art . I have fortunately never been a practi- tioner , though I think I could have made a tolerable hand ; but unless a man is a thoroughly good artist , he injures his enjoyment , generally speaking , of the ...
... pictures , and all we call Art . I have fortunately never been a practi- tioner , though I think I could have made a tolerable hand ; but unless a man is a thoroughly good artist , he injures his enjoyment , generally speaking , of the ...
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Page 95 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 104 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Page 55 - God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
Page 424 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 469 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Page 423 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 105 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 95 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
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Page 355 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.