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... circumstance of BIRD chalking outlines on the furniture of his mother's house , and exclaiming , with all the glee of a child of four years old , " Well done , little Neddy Bird ! " — of MORLAND'S drawings , so full of promise , at the ...
... circumstance of BIRD chalking outlines on the furniture of his mother's house , and exclaiming , with all the glee of a child of four years old , " Well done , little Neddy Bird ! " — of MORLAND'S drawings , so full of promise , at the ...
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... circumstance — the exhibition of his sketches - the sketches of a child of eight to the wandering Indians , on the occasion of their summer visit to Springfield , who rewarded his dawning skill , by teaching him how to prepare the red ...
... circumstance — the exhibition of his sketches - the sketches of a child of eight to the wandering Indians , on the occasion of their summer visit to Springfield , who rewarded his dawning skill , by teaching him how to prepare the red ...
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... circumstance did not escape the observation of some of the domestics , who informed their master of it . The duke sent for the young painter , liberally rewarded him both for the portrait and the copy from Titian ; and , charmed with ...
... circumstance did not escape the observation of some of the domestics , who informed their master of it . The duke sent for the young painter , liberally rewarded him both for the portrait and the copy from Titian ; and , charmed with ...
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... profession , his desire for advancement , and his humble circumstances , to Holomatist , who , pleased with the frank , hopeful the lad , takes him into his own suite , and EL MUDO , HOEFNAEGHEL . 31 affords him shelter , 30 ARTIST LIFE .
... profession , his desire for advancement , and his humble circumstances , to Holomatist , who , pleased with the frank , hopeful the lad , takes him into his own suite , and EL MUDO , HOEFNAEGHEL . 31 affords him shelter , 30 ARTIST LIFE .
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... circumstances hostile to its growth , just as we may see a slab of stone gradually elevated and dis- placed by the slow and continuous upheaving of some apparently fragile plant growing beneath , and struggling in the damp and darkness ...
... circumstances hostile to its growth , just as we may see a slab of stone gradually elevated and dis- placed by the slow and continuous upheaving of some apparently fragile plant growing beneath , and struggling in the damp and darkness ...
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Page 58 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate : Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say it hath been all-in-all his study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle rendered you in music : / Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
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Page 197 - As we close it the club-room is before us, and the table on which stands the omelet for Nugent, and the lemons for Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvas of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of...
Page 139 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 49 - Born to the spacious empire of the Nine, One would have thought she should have been content To manage well that mighty government ; But what can young ambitious souls confine ? To the next realm she stretched her sway, For Painture near adjoining lay, A plenteous province and alluring prey.
Page 399 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 198 - ... wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches ; we see the heavy form rolling ; we hear it puffing ; and then comes the 'Why, sir!
Page 403 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the...
Page 248 - but not before last night. I was walking alone in my garden ; there was great stillness among the branches and flowers, and more than common sweetness in the air. I heard a low and pleasant sound, and I knew not whence it came. At last I saw the broad leaf of a flower move, and underneath I saw a procession of creatures of the size and colour of green and grey grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a roseleaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared. It was a fairy funeral.
Page 198 - There are assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvass of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we...