The Works of the Late Edward Dayes: Containing An Excursion Through the Principal Parts of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, with Illustrative Notes by E.W. Brayley; Essays on Painting; Instructions for Drawing and Coloring Landscapes; and Professional Sketches of Modern Artists |
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... Light and Shade . The young Artist will find them particularly ac- ceptable ; inasmuch as they not only furnish him with the Knowledge of the best Methods of attain- ing his End , but also develope the Principles on which those Methods ...
... Light and Shade . The young Artist will find them particularly ac- ceptable ; inasmuch as they not only furnish him with the Knowledge of the best Methods of attain- ing his End , but also develope the Principles on which those Methods ...
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... light on the fore - ground , that was uncommonly happy . proceeding up the Dale , the mind is amused by agreeable falls of water , and rich foliage ; the whole presenting such an assemblage of objects , as both delight and surprise . In ...
... light on the fore - ground , that was uncommonly happy . proceeding up the Dale , the mind is amused by agreeable falls of water , and rich foliage ; the whole presenting such an assemblage of objects , as both delight and surprise . In ...
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... light nor dark had , in themselves , the power to advance in a picture . Besides , he must recollect , what Sir Joshua Reynolds had some where observed , " that the best effect would not result from the strongest dark being on the fore ...
... light nor dark had , in themselves , the power to advance in a picture . Besides , he must recollect , what Sir Joshua Reynolds had some where observed , " that the best effect would not result from the strongest dark being on the fore ...
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... lights for Paris - candles , called perchers , 311. 14s . 3d . " Expences on the Earl's great horses , and the keeper's wages , 4861. 4s . 3 d . " Linen cloth for the Lord and his Chaplains , and for the pan- try , 431. 17s . " For In ...
... lights for Paris - candles , called perchers , 311. 14s . 3d . " Expences on the Earl's great horses , and the keeper's wages , 4861. 4s . 3 d . " Linen cloth for the Lord and his Chaplains , and for the pan- try , 431. 17s . " For In ...
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... light appeared the market - house , raised on an arcade , above which , in a gallery that leads to different dwellings , were seen various people , busily employed in humble occupations . Add to the whole busily 56 YORKSHIRE . ries with ...
... light appeared the market - house , raised on an arcade , above which , in a gallery that leads to different dwellings , were seen various people , busily employed in humble occupations . Add to the whole busily 56 YORKSHIRE . ries with ...
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Page 197 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 259 - Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Page 141 - That cast an awful look below; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps. So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode; 'Tis now th...
Page 213 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Page 306 - The gloomy pine, the poplar blue, The yellow beech, the sable yew, The slender fir, that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.
Page 291 - Nods o'er the mount beneath. At every step, Solemn, and slow, the shadows blacker fall, And all is awful listening gloom around. These are the haunts of Meditation, these The scenes where ancient bards th...
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Page 289 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 203 - Of envied life ; though only few possess Patrician treasures or imperial state ; Yet Nature's care, to all her children just, With richer treasures and an ampler state, Endows at large whatever happy man Will deign to use them. His the city's pomp, The rural honours his. Whate'er adorns The princely dome, the column and the arch, The breathing marbles and the sculptur'd gold, Beyond the proud possessor's narrow claim, His tuneful breast enjoys.
Page 218 - I think we may safely say, that they differ in every species, yet that there are individuals, found in a great many species so differing, that have a very striking beauty. Now, if it be allowed that very different and even contrary forms and dispositions are consistent with beauty, it amounts...