Handbook of the Dyce and Forster Collections in the South Kensington MuseumCommittee of Council on Education, 1880 - 107 Seiten |
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Seite 67 - That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account ; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.
Seite 40 - Course 19 instead of 1. 1. General History of Europe from the beginning of the Seventeenth Century to the close of the Napoleonic Period. Four hours. Hayes, Political and Social History of Modern Europe, Vol. I. Senior college students may elect this course as History 201 with three hours
Seite 11 - I certainly have no reason to make any childish lamenta' tion, for I have lived a great deal longer than most people who are ' born into this world, and I look back on my past existence without
Seite 3 - Roman antiquities," was at this time, it is believed, in the last year of his rectorship of the high school. A gazetteer which Dyce kept to the last among his grander books, and still in the library (No. 3983, " Brookes and Walker improved ") with the inscription, " Alexr. Dyce received this book as a premium at the High School, August, 1811," and another prize book (No. 6071, Macpherson's " Poetical Works ") in which is written " Puero ingenuo Alexandra Dyce,
Seite 72 - Revealed to heart and mind ; A staff to stay, a star to guide ; A spell to soothe, a power to raise ; A faith by fortune firmly tried ; A judgment resolute to preside O'er days at strife with days.
Seite 63 - ... action. When he turned from such studies to his newspaper work, he brought to it a like breadth of purpose, and saw also history in action while he commented upon the work of his own day. When evening came, there was frequent change from solitude to a keen enjoyment of intellectual fellowship. A " Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Original works on History, Biography, Natural Philosophy, Natural History, Arts and Manufactures
Seite 11 - Being free from pain," he goes on to say, " which Horace Walpole defined to be the pleasure of old age, I ought to be satisfied; but I nevertheless am ill, ill, ILL, exhausted from inability to sleep and to eat, my nights intolerable, my days wearisome because I cannot read, and when, or how it is to end, seems uncertain.
Seite 96 - I gave noe greate beleefe or rcgarde thereunto : xmtill this late rioute of his brake forth with such violence and virulence, as might not with my dutye be longer silenced. The particulares would growe tediouse, but in the word of truthe, I take them to be as highly criminal!, being only...
Seite 101 - Richelieu tells him that he has qualities that make him wish to attach him to himself, and that he will marry him to a girl with a great dowry, and give him high office at court. He must marry directly. Marillac goes out enchanted. "Now, Richelieu's motive is this: Louis XIII. has fallen in love with this girl, Louise de la Porte, and wishes to make her his mistress. All the King's mistresses have hitherto opposed Richelieu. He is resolved that the King shall have no more. He will have no rival with...
Seite 32 - ... Hayley, the painter's friend and biographer — Sweet Evelina's fascinating power Has first beguiled of sleep her midnight hour : Possest by sympathy's enchanting sway, She read, unconscious of the dawning day. Canto I. There are two landscapes by Morland (30 and 31), and another landscape (No. 15) is by Richard Wilson, RA Two portraits, by unknown artists, are of importance. One (No. 63) has on the back, written in an old hand, " John Milton, Esq. Done after the life, 1658, set. 50.