Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 16Macmillan and Company, 1867 |
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... answer simply to name Shakespeare and Reynolds . So long as we confine ourselves to naming our great artists , we do well ; and it is certainly hard to imagine that there can be any radical artistic deficiency in a nation that has ...
... answer simply to name Shakespeare and Reynolds . So long as we confine ourselves to naming our great artists , we do well ; and it is certainly hard to imagine that there can be any radical artistic deficiency in a nation that has ...
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... answer this question is to make a beginning in the intelligent study of Art . With every power that we have we can do two things : we can work , and we can play . Every power that we have is at the same time useful to us and delightful ...
... answer this question is to make a beginning in the intelligent study of Art . With every power that we have we can do two things : we can work , and we can play . Every power that we have is at the same time useful to us and delightful ...
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... answer if we consider in what way the position is gained . It is the reward of an intrinsic superiority of nature , a superiority in the power of enjoying . Does not this place the artist at once high above the tradesman and the ...
... answer if we consider in what way the position is gained . It is the reward of an intrinsic superiority of nature , a superiority in the power of enjoying . Does not this place the artist at once high above the tradesman and the ...
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... answer is that you misunderstand the word " play . " Play is not by any means necessarily connected with mirth or the relaxation of the faculties . What can be more serious than a game at cricket ? While the game is going forward wicket ...
... answer is that you misunderstand the word " play . " Play is not by any means necessarily connected with mirth or the relaxation of the faculties . What can be more serious than a game at cricket ? While the game is going forward wicket ...
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... answer to different faculties ; let us pass them in review and see if we cannot dis- cover a likeness running through them . Such a likeness strikes us at once . There is an obvious correspondence be- tween the art of music and the art ...
... answer to different faculties ; let us pass them in review and see if we cannot dis- cover a likeness running through them . Such a likeness strikes us at once . There is an obvious correspondence be- tween the art of music and the art ...
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Page 231 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 225 - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Page 388 - There St John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 207 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 450 - For a thousand years in thy sight, are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up ; in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
Page 80 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 79 - For in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 152 - The first line that Sir Patrick read, A loud laugh laughed he : The next line that Sir Patrick read, The tear blinded his e'e. 'O wha is this has done this deed, This ill deed done to me ; To send me out this time o' the year, To sail upon the sea?
Page 272 - ... a study of perfection. It moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for pure knowledge, but also of the moral and social passion for doing good.
Page 321 - Liberty" (to Sons of the Devil in overwhelming majority, as would appear) ; count of Heads the God-appointed way in this Universe, all other ways Devil-appointed; in one brief word, which includes whatever of palpable incredibility and delirious absurdity, universally believed, can be uttered or imagined on these points,