Essays in History and ArtW. Blackwood and sons, 1862 - 526 páginas |
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... 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.
... 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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... paint , in the proper proportions , pro- duce anything better than a neutral grey . The artist's palette contains only the dry bones of colour , which he can never vivify with the light of heaven . - - Another phenomenon , curious in ...
... paint , in the proper proportions , pro- duce anything better than a neutral grey . The artist's palette contains only the dry bones of colour , which he can never vivify with the light of heaven . - - Another phenomenon , curious in ...
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... painter have to imitate two contiguous stripes of red and blue upon a white ground . He perceives them changed in hue ... painting a lady's red mantle , and then turn to look at the face , the complexion will appear of a greenish hue ...
... painter have to imitate two contiguous stripes of red and blue upon a white ground . He perceives them changed in hue ... painting a lady's red mantle , and then turn to look at the face , the complexion will appear of a greenish hue ...
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... painted green , and forthwith the deserted of Bacchus flushes all over with a faint rosy tint , such as she is seen in her chamber at Frankfort , where the light is let in upon her through rose- coloured glass . For the divine Apollo ...
... painted green , and forthwith the deserted of Bacchus flushes all over with a faint rosy tint , such as she is seen in her chamber at Frankfort , where the light is let in upon her through rose- coloured glass . For the divine Apollo ...
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... paintings look when thus crowded together . Even supposing that they have been arranged by a man of taste , and that they ... painting by a German artist , which represented the interior of a Gothic ruin , with a snowy landscape visible ...
... paintings look when thus crowded together . Even supposing that they have been arranged by a man of taste , and that they ... painting by a German artist , which represented the interior of a Gothic ruin , with a snowy landscape visible ...
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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.