Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 16Macmillan and Company, 1867 |
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... question , whether the English people are capable of art . It seems the easiest and most triumphant answer simply to name Shakespeare and Reynolds . So long as we confine ourselves to naming our great artists , we do well ; and it is ...
... question , whether the English people are capable of art . It seems the easiest and most triumphant answer simply to name Shakespeare and Reynolds . So long as we confine ourselves to naming our great artists , we do well ; and it is ...
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... 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 to us . Even ...
... 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 to us . Even ...
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... question is entirely of utility , and not of gratification , we use as much regularity , or what we call neatness , as we can . The commonest objects which surround us in daily life must have arrangement and pattern , or they offend our ...
... question is entirely of utility , and not of gratification , we use as much regularity , or what we call neatness , as we can . The commonest objects which surround us in daily life must have arrangement and pattern , or they offend our ...
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... questions of debate . The first is the question whether Art exists for pleasure , or for instruction and moral improvement . The second is the question how much Art derives from Nature , and how much Art adds to Nature . In conclusion ...
... questions of debate . The first is the question whether Art exists for pleasure , or for instruction and moral improvement . The second is the question how much Art derives from Nature , and how much Art adds to Nature . In conclusion ...
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... question , the greatest rascal in Europe . The general rule , I believe , in employ- ing a rascal is to promise him his pay as soon as the villany is completed . Such a procedure was utterly unnecessary in the case of Kriegsthurm . Pay ...
... question , the greatest rascal in Europe . The general rule , I believe , in employ- ing a rascal is to promise him his pay as soon as the villany is completed . Such a procedure was utterly unnecessary in the case of Kriegsthurm . Pay ...
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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,