The Port Folio, Band 3Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1810 |
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... genius , breaking forth in an overwhelming eloquence , can bestow . For , though a perspicuous , pleasing , and even impressive speaker , he had no pretension to the character of a finished orator . • Mr. Shippen had been but a very ...
... genius , breaking forth in an overwhelming eloquence , can bestow . For , though a perspicuous , pleasing , and even impressive speaker , he had no pretension to the character of a finished orator . • Mr. Shippen had been but a very ...
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... genius kindled into enthusiasm by such an establishment , which , without such aid , would , like the flower in the wilderness " blush unseen , and waste its sweets in the desert . " When I was in Italy in the year 1760 , the stupendous ...
... genius kindled into enthusiasm by such an establishment , which , without such aid , would , like the flower in the wilderness " blush unseen , and waste its sweets in the desert . " When I was in Italy in the year 1760 , the stupendous ...
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... genius , at the establishment of the royal academy ; and at the pleasing prospect it held out in the higher department of art - historical painting . The experiment was then to be made , whether there was genius in the country for that ...
... genius , at the establishment of the royal academy ; and at the pleasing prospect it held out in the higher department of art - historical painting . The experiment was then to be made , whether there was genius in the country for that ...
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... genius has not been wanting , and except some unforeseen change should take place in the minds of the various classes of men in this coun- try which make the aggregate of the nation in favour of the arts , it requires no extraordinary ...
... genius has not been wanting , and except some unforeseen change should take place in the minds of the various classes of men in this coun- try which make the aggregate of the nation in favour of the arts , it requires no extraordinary ...
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... genius in portrait painting ; and I do hope that your son will ever bear in his mind , that the art of painting has powers to dignify man , by transmitting to posterity his noble actions , and his mental powers , to be viewed in those ...
... genius in portrait painting ; and I do hope that your son will ever bear in his mind , that the art of painting has powers to dignify man , by transmitting to posterity his noble actions , and his mental powers , to be viewed in those ...
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Seite 203 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Seite 387 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes!
Seite 204 - The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Seite 201 - And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter ; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out. and wept bitterly.
Seite 396 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Seite 204 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Seite 340 - O'er many a distant foreign land ; Each place, each province I have tried, And sung and danced my saraband : But all their charms could not prevail To steal my heart from yonder vale.
Seite 206 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Seite 489 - Let me not stir, nor breathe, lest I dissolve That tender, lovely form of painted air, So like Almeria. Ha! it sinks, it falls; I'll catch it ere it goes, and grasp her shade. 'Tislife! 'tis warm! 'tis she! 'tis she herself ! Nor dead nor shade, but breathing and alive!
Seite 155 - It is very difficult to lay down rules for the acquirement of such a taste as that I am here speaking of. The faculty must in some degree be born with us; and it very often happens, that those who have other qualities in perfection, are wholly void of this. One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age has assured me, that the greatest pleasure he took in reading Virgil was in examining /Eneas's voyage by the map...