The Court Magazine & Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine, & Museum of the Belles Lettres, Music, Fine Arts, Drama, Fashions, &c, Volume 5; Volume 16Dobbs & Company, 1840 - English literature |
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... picture strikes little in a shabby frame - now Mr. Groper was gazing on a fine and grander " Tableau Vivant " than any he had seen - but the Frame , the accompa- niments were decidedly mean and cal- culated to diminish the brilliancy of ...
... picture strikes little in a shabby frame - now Mr. Groper was gazing on a fine and grander " Tableau Vivant " than any he had seen - but the Frame , the accompa- niments were decidedly mean and cal- culated to diminish the brilliancy of ...
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... pictures col- lected in our galleries , and of the no less splendid scenes beheld in our theatres . But the Arts themselves partake of the instability common to all human affairs : and not unfrequently , in some points , the attainment ...
... pictures col- lected in our galleries , and of the no less splendid scenes beheld in our theatres . But the Arts themselves partake of the instability common to all human affairs : and not unfrequently , in some points , the attainment ...
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... pictures it would have been more fit to have been mindful of the propriety ( as the ancients declared ) of sacrificing to the Graces . This idea among the ancients , of making the Fine Arts subservient to the Graces , is greatly ...
... pictures it would have been more fit to have been mindful of the propriety ( as the ancients declared ) of sacrificing to the Graces . This idea among the ancients , of making the Fine Arts subservient to the Graces , is greatly ...
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... picture is from the hand of so great a master . Possibly the attributing it to Buonarotti may itself be a dream ; never- theless the picture well deserves attention as it contains many characteristics of this great genius which accord ...
... picture is from the hand of so great a master . Possibly the attributing it to Buonarotti may itself be a dream ; never- theless the picture well deserves attention as it contains many characteristics of this great genius which accord ...
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... pictures ; see also what he says when , at Bologna , he hangs over Raphael's picture of St. Cecilia : - students derive much advantage from comparing the different schools of paint- ing , the comparison of the different mas- ters of the ...
... pictures ; see also what he says when , at Bologna , he hangs over Raphael's picture of St. Cecilia : - students derive much advantage from comparing the different schools of paint- ing , the comparison of the different mas- ters of the ...
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Page 265 - N., to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.
Page 265 - The Man shall answer, I will. Then shall the Priest say unto the Woman. N . Wilt thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou...
Page 266 - With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow; in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Page 561 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth ; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 266 - O ETERNAL God, creator and preserver of all mankind, giver of all spiritual grace, the author of everlasting life: Send thy blessing upon these thy servants, this man and this woman, whom we bless in thy name...
Page 241 - Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray : and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me : for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Page 266 - Those whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder. Then shall the Minister speak unto the company : Forasmuch as M. and N. have consented together in holy wedlock, and have witnessed the same before God and this company, and thereto have given and pledged their troth...
Page 82 - I am in presence of either father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing or doing anything else, I must do it as it were in such weight, measure and number even so perfectly as God made the world or else I am so sharply taunted...
Page 82 - I wist, all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 561 - And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.