Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1819 - Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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Page 26
... painter's phrase runs , much more accurately than when I was myself mingled in the central tumult of the place . My position resembled that of a person visiting a peristrephic panorama , who , himself immoveable in a darksome corner ...
... painter's phrase runs , much more accurately than when I was myself mingled in the central tumult of the place . My position resembled that of a person visiting a peristrephic panorama , who , himself immoveable in a darksome corner ...
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... painter would call them so ; and the upper part of the profile has as fine lines as could be wished . But then , how the habits of the mind have stamped their traces on every part of the face ! What sharpness , what razor - like ...
... painter would call them so ; and the upper part of the profile has as fine lines as could be wished . But then , how the habits of the mind have stamped their traces on every part of the face ! What sharpness , what razor - like ...
Page 154
... painter could not typify ideal Beauty under a more clumsy and heavy shape , than they sometimes do Genius ; nor are the languishing , coy , and conscious airs of some Venus over a lust - huis at Schedam , a whit more exquisite in their ...
... painter could not typify ideal Beauty under a more clumsy and heavy shape , than they sometimes do Genius ; nor are the languishing , coy , and conscious airs of some Venus over a lust - huis at Schedam , a whit more exquisite in their ...
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... painter , it gives not merely an inadequate , but a perfectly false idea of the real character of the man . The spirit of fun , he tells me , ran frolicking through his veins with the blood that filled them ; and there was a roguish ...
... painter , it gives not merely an inadequate , but a perfectly false idea of the real character of the man . The spirit of fun , he tells me , ran frolicking through his veins with the blood that filled them ; and there was a roguish ...
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... were . After climbing several flights of a stair - case , we were ushered into the house of the painter ; and Mr Bridges , being quite at home , conduct- ed us straight into his painting - room - the MR BRIDGES . 233.
... were . After climbing several flights of a stair - case , we were ushered into the house of the painter ; and Mr Bridges , being quite at home , conduct- ed us straight into his painting - room - the MR BRIDGES . 233.
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