Essays in History and ArtW. Blackwood and sons, 1862 - 526 páginas |
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... fact is , that , of all God's gifts to the sight of man , colour is the holiest , the most divine , the most solemn . We speak rashly of gay colour and sad colour , for colour cannot at once be good and gay . All good colour is in some ...
... fact is , that , of all God's gifts to the sight of man , colour is the holiest , the most divine , the most solemn . We speak rashly of gay colour and sad colour , for colour cannot at once be good and gay . All good colour is in some ...
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... facts remarked by dealers in coloured stuffs , and often greatly inconvenience art- ists who , wishing to imitate ... fact connected with the phenomenon of " accidental colour " is , that if there be presented to a buyer , one after ...
... facts remarked by dealers in coloured stuffs , and often greatly inconvenience art- ists who , wishing to imitate ... fact connected with the phenomenon of " accidental colour " is , that if there be presented to a buyer , one after ...
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... fact involved in those singular phenomena is , that whenever the visual sense has been long acted upon by a certain colour , nature at once relieves and gratifies itself by calling up a spectral colour which is the harmonious opposite ...
... fact involved in those singular phenomena is , that whenever the visual sense has been long acted upon by a certain colour , nature at once relieves and gratifies itself by calling up a spectral colour which is the harmonious opposite ...
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... fact known to everybody - but , like many another everyday phenomenon , its explanation has a good deal puzzled philosophers . Goethe attempted to explain it by the hypothesis that light resided in the eye , and came forth when thus ...
... fact known to everybody - but , like many another everyday phenomenon , its explanation has a good deal puzzled philosophers . Goethe attempted to explain it by the hypothesis that light resided in the eye , and came forth when thus ...
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... fact that each requires a peculiar kind of matter to set it a - vibrat- ing ; and if any one substance sufficed to set all of these various sets of nerves a - vibrating , it would at once produce all their varied phenomena . There is ...
... fact that each requires a peculiar kind of matter to set it a - vibrat- ing ; and if any one substance sufficed to set all of these various sets of nerves a - vibrating , it would at once produce all their varied phenomena . There is ...
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Página 195 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature and the encouragement of the learned Natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British Territories in India...
Página 362 - Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower. Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.