Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 16Macmillan and Company, 1867 |
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... true in great cities . Life It is stifled and overtasked when it is spent in the midst of a crowd ; where the animal happiness and freedom of the country is wanting , what but Art can supply its place ? A city without picture ...
... true in great cities . Life It is stifled and overtasked when it is spent in the midst of a crowd ; where the animal happiness and freedom of the country is wanting , what but Art can supply its place ? A city without picture ...
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... true that he is this in the first instance , and , if he were no more , he might be justly called an unprofitable idler . But he amuses others besides himself , and thus he is a benefactor . He is the general purveyor of joy to the ...
... true that he is this in the first instance , and , if he were no more , he might be justly called an unprofitable idler . But he amuses others besides himself , and thus he is a benefactor . He is the general purveyor of joy to the ...
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... true ,, but they do so by straining others . Well ! but , you will say , if play is an energetic exertion of the faculties , how does it differ from work ? It differs in this , that the exertion used in play is exertion for its own sake ...
... true ,, but they do so by straining others . Well ! but , you will say , if play is an energetic exertion of the faculties , how does it differ from work ? It differs in this , that the exertion used in play is exertion for its own sake ...
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... true that Art ought always in practice to be kept apart from that which is not Art . On the contrary , there are large classes of the works of men which are partly artistic and partly not . All things that make what I may call the ...
... true that Art ought always in practice to be kept apart from that which is not Art . On the contrary , there are large classes of the works of men which are partly artistic and partly not . All things that make what I may call the ...
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... true ornament is a shy and diffident thing . It cannot bear to appear out of place ; it hates to be intrusive and impertinent . When men are intensely occupied or anxious , it slips out of view , and therefore architectural ornament is ...
... true ornament is a shy and diffident thing . It cannot bear to appear out of place ; it hates to be intrusive and impertinent . When men are intensely occupied or anxious , it slips out of view , and therefore architectural ornament is ...
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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,