Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen 91W. Blackwood, 1862 |
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... human life Genius is the one least like to carry its possessor through the world with honour and dignity , or to pre- serve his garments unspotted . The great modern example of this ex- traordinary process is the great painter whose ...
... human life Genius is the one least like to carry its possessor through the world with honour and dignity , or to pre- serve his garments unspotted . The great modern example of this ex- traordinary process is the great painter whose ...
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... human reminiscence be- hind him to make his fame dear to any heart of man . If impartiality ever could be attained in any hu- man narrative , here is the unhappy soul who should have achieved the sad distinction of an impartial his ...
... human reminiscence be- hind him to make his fame dear to any heart of man . If impartiality ever could be attained in any hu- man narrative , here is the unhappy soul who should have achieved the sad distinction of an impartial his ...
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... ; and favoured be- yond the lot of common humanity are those who succeed in doing more . During these probationary years the young artist worked with a tradesmanlike industry and energy 1862. ] 21 J. M. W. Turner , R.A..
... ; and favoured be- yond the lot of common humanity are those who succeed in doing more . During these probationary years the young artist worked with a tradesmanlike industry and energy 1862. ] 21 J. M. W. Turner , R.A..
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... human particular so unprofitable to his fellows . For this magnifi- cent distant aim his biographer would have us believe he exacted the last possible penny from his purchasers , and ground down to the barest pay his assistants in his ...
... human particular so unprofitable to his fellows . For this magnifi- cent distant aim his biographer would have us believe he exacted the last possible penny from his purchasers , and ground down to the barest pay his assistants in his ...
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... human woes and thoughts , but with a dark confusion of obtuse musings centred in self , the only object which the unhappy man seems to know or believe in . Throughout his life human influence never acts upon him except in distorted ...
... human woes and thoughts , but with a dark confusion of obtuse musings centred in self , the only object which the unhappy man seems to know or believe in . Throughout his life human influence never acts upon him except in distorted ...
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Página 573 - ... arm-chair, with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials — satins, and lace, and silks — all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white.
Página 575 - A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars ; who limped and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin. "O! Don't cut my throat, sir,
Página 659 - ... and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution of our country ? Was our devotion paid to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance, which this new doctrine would make it? Did we pledge ourselves to the support of an airy nothing — a bubble that must be blown away by the first breath of disaffection?
Página 422 - I write by the coach the more speedily and effectually to prevent your coming hither. Perhaps by my fame (and I hope it is so) you mean only that celebrity which is a consideration of a much lower kind. I care for that only as it may give pleasure to my husband and his friends.
Página 632 - God, in that day, manifested her merey to the townsmen, and delivered them from their foes. And they then went thence, and wrought the greatest evil that ever any army could do, in burning, and harrying, and in manslayings, as well by the sea-coast as in Essex, and in Kent, and in Sussex, and in Hampshire.