The Laws of Fésole: A Familiar Treatise on the Elementary Principles and Practice of Drawing and Painting. As Determined by the Tuscan Masters. Arranged for the Use of Schools, Volume 1 |
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Page 100 - Perdita1 differs from the vileness of souls that despise love. But no subtle inquiries or demonstrations can be admitted in writing primal laws ; nor will they ever be needed, by those who obey them. The things which are naturally pleasant to innocence and youth, will be for ever pleasant to us, both in this life and in that which is to come...
Page 72 - And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the Shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore, In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Page 61 - It is a time-piece that advances very regularly nearly four minutes a day, and no other group of stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim in the savannas of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, • midnight is past, the cross begins to bend'.
Page 61 - The two great stars which mark the summit and the foot of the cross, having nearly the same right ascension, it follows, that the constellation is almost vertical at the moment when it passes the meridian.
Page 62 - Lataniers, conversed together for the last time ; and where the old man, at the sight of the Southern Cross, warns them that it is time to separate !"— DE HUMBOLDT'S Travels.
Page 61 - Io mi volsi a man destra, e posi mente All' altro polo, e vidi quattro stelle Non viste mai fuor che alla prima gente.
Page 60 - ... of July, in the sixteenth degree of latitude ; it was strongly inclined, and appeared from time to time between the clouds, the centre of which, furrowed by uncondensed lightnings, reflected a silver light. " If a traveller may be permitted to speak of his personal emotions* I shall add, that in this night I saw one of the reveries of my earliest youth accomplished.
Page 207 - Venus out of ye clouds. The conclusion was an heaven, whither all ascended. But the glory of the masque was the greate persons performing in it: the French King, his brother the Duke of Anjou, with all the grandees of the Court, the King performing to the admiration of all. The music was 29 violins, vested a lantiq, but the habits of the masquers were stupendously rich and glorious.
Page 116 - Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch that you add in other places...
Page 4 - ... heart, that there is something better than picture. Also it speaks with the voices of many : the efforts of thousands dead, and their passions, are in the pictures of their children to-day. Not with the skill of an hour, nor of a life, nor of a century, but with the help of numberless souls, a beautiful thing must be done.