Horæ Subsecivæ, Volume 3Edmonston and Douglas, 1882 - English literature |
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... seen in his plates to Don Quixote , which are not unworthy of that marvellous book , the most deeply and exquisitely humorous piece of genius in all literature ; then the Monkeyana , designed and engraved by Thomas Landseer , forgotten ...
... seen in his plates to Don Quixote , which are not unworthy of that marvellous book , the most deeply and exquisitely humorous piece of genius in all literature ; then the Monkeyana , designed and engraved by Thomas Landseer , forgotten ...
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... seen by the great Flaxman , and , after carefully looking at them and the boy , he said , ' That boy must be an artist ; he will be nothing else or less . ' This was said in full consciousness of what is involved in advising such a step ...
... seen by the great Flaxman , and , after carefully looking at them and the boy , he said , ' That boy must be an artist ; he will be nothing else or less . ' This was said in full consciousness of what is involved in advising such a step ...
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... seen , not with things that may be known , drew merely what he saw , but then with what an inevit- able , concentrated eye and hand he did draw that ! This made him so pre - eminent in reproducing the expression of action — especially ...
... seen , not with things that may be known , drew merely what he saw , but then with what an inevit- able , concentrated eye and hand he did draw that ! This made him so pre - eminent in reproducing the expression of action — especially ...
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... seen than in those delightful records of his own holidays in Punch . A geologist will tell you the exact structure of that rock in the Tay at Campsie Linn , where Mr. Briggs is carrying out that huge salmon in his arms , tenderly and ...
... seen than in those delightful records of his own holidays in Punch . A geologist will tell you the exact structure of that rock in the Tay at Campsie Linn , where Mr. Briggs is carrying out that huge salmon in his arms , tenderly and ...
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... seen . What he asks you to live in and laugh at and with , he has laughed at and lived in . It is this wholesomeness , and , to use the right word , this goodness , that makes Leech more than a drawer of funny pictures , more even than ...
... seen . What he asks you to live in and laugh at and with , he has laughed at and lived in . It is this wholesomeness , and , to use the right word , this goodness , that makes Leech more than a drawer of funny pictures , more even than ...
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Page 79 - But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
Page 296 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 235 - They set as sets the morning star, which goes Not down behind the darkened west, nor hides Obscured among the tempests of the sky, But melts away into the light of heaven.
Page 281 - among them that wrought the work * of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet : with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
Page 297 - Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling : for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Page 249 - For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed ; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
Page 296 - Stormy wind fulfilling his word : Mountains, and all hills ; Fruitful trees, and all cedars : Beasts, and all cattle ; Creeping things, and flying fowl : Kings of the earth, and all people ; Princes, and all judges of the earth : Both young men, and maidens ; Old men, and children : Let them praise the name of the Lord : For his name alone is excellent ; His glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page 245 - The sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill, In Ettrick's vale, is sinking sweet ; The westland wind is hush and still — The lake lies sleeping at my feet. Yet not the landscape to mine eye Bears those bright hues that once it bore : Though evening, with her richest dye, Flames o'er the hills of Ettrick's shore. ' With listless look along the plain I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruin'd pride.
Page 194 - The race not always to the swift. The strong may yield, the good may fall, The great man be a vulgar clown, The knave be lifted over all, The kind cast pitilessly down.
Page 317 - Like some coy maid half yielding to her lover, It pours such sweet upbraiding, as must needs Tempt to repeat the wrong ' And now, the strings Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes Over delicious surges sink and rise, Such a soft floating witchery of sound...