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... BRITISH ART . I. PAINTING II . SCULPTURE III . ARCHITECTURE · IV . DECORATIVE ART 2 2 3 4-8 46 6 67 V. PRACTICE OF DRAWING AND PAINTING BIOGRAPHY ( INCLUDING LETTERS , SPEECHES , AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES ) I. ARTISTS 7 9-23 II . ECONOMISTS ...
... BRITISH ART . I. PAINTING II . SCULPTURE III . ARCHITECTURE · IV . DECORATIVE ART 2 2 3 4-8 46 6 67 V. PRACTICE OF DRAWING AND PAINTING BIOGRAPHY ( INCLUDING LETTERS , SPEECHES , AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES ) I. ARTISTS 7 9-23 II . ECONOMISTS ...
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... British Colonies and India . 3. America LANGUAGES ( BOOKS FOR BEGINNERS ) I. GREEK II . LATIN III . FRENCH IV . GERMAN LITERATURE • • I. INTRODUCTORY ( HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL ) II . POETRY 1. Collections of Poems 2. Best Cheap Editions ...
... British Colonies and India . 3. America LANGUAGES ( BOOKS FOR BEGINNERS ) I. GREEK II . LATIN III . FRENCH IV . GERMAN LITERATURE • • I. INTRODUCTORY ( HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL ) II . POETRY 1. Collections of Poems 2. Best Cheap Editions ...
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... British Colonies · 6. American Constitution 7. Various Constitutions of the World I. MATHEMATICS I. Pure Mathematics 2. Mixed Mathematics 3. Histories and Miscellaneous 90-93 90 91 91 91 91 92 93 93 93 94-112 22500 94 95 96 98 xvi ...
... British Colonies · 6. American Constitution 7. Various Constitutions of the World I. MATHEMATICS I. Pure Mathematics 2. Mixed Mathematics 3. Histories and Miscellaneous 90-93 90 91 91 91 91 92 93 93 93 94-112 22500 94 95 96 98 xvi ...
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... British Isles . Stephen , L. , Dictionary of National Biography . Longmans O IO 6 AND BIOGRAPHY Ward , Lock O 18 O Lippincott 3 3 Black I 16 25 vols . published . Smith , Elder . Each Haydn , Universal Index of Biography ( in course of ...
... British Isles . Stephen , L. , Dictionary of National Biography . Longmans O IO 6 AND BIOGRAPHY Ward , Lock O 18 O Lippincott 3 3 Black I 16 25 vols . published . Smith , Elder . Each Haydn , Universal Index of Biography ( in course of ...
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... British Museum Catalogue of Oriental , Persian , and Indian Coins . 13 vols . 7 vols . ( Oriental ) out of print , 6 vols . British Museum I 16 O 670 II . GREEK 1. ELEMENTARY . Mahaffy , Greek Antiquities . Macmillan Harrison , J. E. ...
... British Museum Catalogue of Oriental , Persian , and Indian Coins . 13 vols . 7 vols . ( Oriental ) out of print , 6 vols . British Museum I 16 O 670 II . GREEK 1. ELEMENTARY . Mahaffy , Greek Antiquities . Macmillan Harrison , J. E. ...
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Page 4 - For, don't you mark? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, 35 Which is the same thing.
Page 64 - Oh! It is only a novel!" replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. "It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.
Page 11 - O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or Cityburner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor: but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.
Page 94 - There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. But in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For tho' my lips may breathe adieu, I cannot think the thing farewell.
Page iii - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Page 1 - Antiquity ! thou wondrous charm, what art thou ? that, being nothing, art everything ! When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity — then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration ; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern...
Page 21 - Go from the east to the west, as the sun and the stars direct thee, Go with the girdle of man, go and encompass the earth. Not for the gain of the gold; for the getting, the hoarding, the having, But for the joy of the deed; but for the Duty to do.
Page 39 - BEFORE man parted for this earthly strand, While yet upon the verge of heaven he stood, God put a heap of letters in his hand, And bade him make with them what word he could. And man has turn'd them many times ; made Greece, Rome, England, France; — yes, nor in vain essay'd Way after way, changes that never cease ! The letters have combined, something was made. But ah ! an inextinguishable sense Haunts him that he has not made what he should ; That he has still, though old, to recommence...
Page iii - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of Life in them to be as active as that Soule was whose progeny they are...
Page 72 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.