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Page 38
... M. A. Shee . PORTRAIT PAINTING . A VERY charming art - a right noble art , when nobly and worthily used , redeeming as it does , grace and beauty from the grasp of time and the mortality of the grave , and transmitting the lineaments of ...
... M. A. Shee . PORTRAIT PAINTING . A VERY charming art - a right noble art , when nobly and worthily used , redeeming as it does , grace and beauty from the grasp of time and the mortality of the grave , and transmitting the lineaments of ...
Page 62
... materials ; and often invests vulgarity and deformity with a charm , which makes us forget the imperfections of the subject in the art with which it is represented . M. A. Shee . POWER OF GRACE . In joyous youth , what soul 62.
... materials ; and often invests vulgarity and deformity with a charm , which makes us forget the imperfections of the subject in the art with which it is represented . M. A. Shee . POWER OF GRACE . In joyous youth , what soul 62.
Page 87
... M. A. Shee . MENDICANT MUSIC . IT is because music addresses itself to the most ex- quisite sensations of which we are capable , that its vulgar profanation is so peculiarly distressing ; it is because of its own purity , and refinement ...
... M. A. Shee . MENDICANT MUSIC . IT is because music addresses itself to the most ex- quisite sensations of which we are capable , that its vulgar profanation is so peculiarly distressing ; it is because of its own purity , and refinement ...
Page 105
... obvious are not the most arduous difficulties ; that the most exquisite efforts of skill are often concealed in their own ingenuity , and least palpable when most successful . M. A. Shee . THE FANATIC . O , the lover may Distrust that 105.
... obvious are not the most arduous difficulties ; that the most exquisite efforts of skill are often concealed in their own ingenuity , and least palpable when most successful . M. A. Shee . THE FANATIC . O , the lover may Distrust that 105.
Page 116
... M. A. Shee . COLLOQUIAL WIT . PERHAPS no kind of superiority is more flattering or alluring than that which is conferred by the powers of conversation , by extemporaneous sprightliness of fancy , copiousness of language , and fertility ...
... M. A. Shee . COLLOQUIAL WIT . PERHAPS no kind of superiority is more flattering or alluring than that which is conferred by the powers of conversation , by extemporaneous sprightliness of fancy , copiousness of language , and fertility ...
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