Essays in History and ArtW. Blackwood and sons, 1862 - 526 páginas |
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... it , and in the world of their own devising , would have flung aside flowers as cumberers of the ground , and looked upon roses as but painted weeds . They A " Could strip , for aught the prospect yields To COLOUR IN NATURE AND ART.
... it , and in the world of their own devising , would have flung aside flowers as cumberers of the ground , and looked upon roses as but painted weeds . They A " Could strip , for aught the prospect yields To COLOUR IN NATURE AND ART.
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... flowers , the nostrils thrill with the scents floating on the morning air , and peaches and all man- ner of fruit are there , pleasing both eye and palate far more than mere utility demands . The very hedgerows , and woody dells of ...
... flowers , the nostrils thrill with the scents floating on the morning air , and peaches and all man- ner of fruit are there , pleasing both eye and palate far more than mere utility demands . The very hedgerows , and woody dells of ...
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... Flowers but another name for the beautiful . The most popular of Transatlantic novelists , in a burst of enthusiasm ... flowers . Luther always kept a flower in a glass , on his writing - table ; and when he was waging his great public ...
... Flowers but another name for the beautiful . The most popular of Transatlantic novelists , in a burst of enthusiasm ... flowers . Luther always kept a flower in a glass , on his writing - table ; and when he was waging his great public ...
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... flowers , as in Lycidas and Comus . " Whatever be the subsidiary sources of attraction in flowers , Colour unquestionably is the supreme one . Men often talk disparagingly of this kind of beauty , as if it were something far lower in ...
... flowers , as in Lycidas and Comus . " Whatever be the subsidiary sources of attraction in flowers , Colour unquestionably is the supreme one . Men often talk disparagingly of this kind of beauty , as if it were something far lower in ...
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... flowers are unrivalled . If we may be allowed the simile , the ethereal phenomenon of colour in them gains as much by a union with earthly substance , as the spiritual nature of man is rendered more rich and beautiful by the action of ...
... flowers are unrivalled . If we may be allowed the simile , the ethereal phenomenon of colour in them gains as much by a union with earthly substance , as the spiritual nature of man is rendered more rich and beautiful by the action of ...
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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.