Lessons from My Masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and RuskinHarper & brothers, 1879 - 449 pages |
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... DRAWINGS IV . - HIS DESCRIPTION OF NATURE V. HIS THEORY THAT BEAUTY IS TYPICAL OF THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES · 353 366 376 387 • 397 VI . - LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE . STONES OF VENICE . LAST THREE VOLUMES OF MODERN PAINTERS VII . HIS LOVE OF ...
... DRAWINGS IV . - HIS DESCRIPTION OF NATURE V. HIS THEORY THAT BEAUTY IS TYPICAL OF THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES · 353 366 376 387 • 397 VI . - LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE . STONES OF VENICE . LAST THREE VOLUMES OF MODERN PAINTERS VII . HIS LOVE OF ...
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... draw out , from my interior reservoirs , a sufficient Birmingham horse - pistol , and say , " Be so obliging as to retire , friend , and with promptitude ! " This logic even the Hyperborean under- stands : fast enough , with apologetic ...
... draw out , from my interior reservoirs , a sufficient Birmingham horse - pistol , and say , " Be so obliging as to retire , friend , and with promptitude ! " This logic even the Hyperborean under- stands : fast enough , with apologetic ...
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... drawing of soldiers about to begin climbing the hill to their Winchelsea barracks under the lashing rain of a thunderstorm , says that the artist was " partly laughing the strange half - cruel , half - sorrowful laugh that we wonder at ...
... drawing of soldiers about to begin climbing the hill to their Winchelsea barracks under the lashing rain of a thunderstorm , says that the artist was " partly laughing the strange half - cruel , half - sorrowful laugh that we wonder at ...
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... drawing the line between legitimate , nay , imperative and indispensable , respect for great men , and that respect which is idolatrous ; but I can precisely state that , when I am required to say of any man , be he a Shakespeare or a ...
... drawing the line between legitimate , nay , imperative and indispensable , respect for great men , and that respect which is idolatrous ; but I can precisely state that , when I am required to say of any man , be he a Shakespeare or a ...
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... draw off , if permitted , here had been enough for one day , and that there ought to be pause till to - morrow . Friedrich knew well the need of rest ; but Friedrich , impatient of things half - done , especially of Russians half ...
... draw off , if permitted , here had been enough for one day , and that there ought to be pause till to - morrow . Friedrich knew well the need of rest ; but Friedrich , impatient of things half - done , especially of Russians half ...
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Page 296 - Ah ! who hath reft,' quoth he, ' my dearest pledge ? ' Last came, and last did go, The Pilot of the Galilean Lake ; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : ' How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies...
Page 340 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Page 286 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself...
Page 303 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...
Page 296 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Page 286 - Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 303 - Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek'd against his creed — Who loved, who suffer'd countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert dust, Or seal'd within the iron hills? No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him.
Page 145 - Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America...
Page 284 - Lo! in the middle of the wood, The folded leaf is woo'd from out the bud With winds upon the branch, and there Grows green and broad, and takes no care, Sun-steep'd at noon, and in the moon Nightly dew-fed; and turning yellow Falls, and floats adown the air.
Page 222 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.