Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper & Bros., 1860 - 324 sider |
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... thousand choirs , Touch their celestial harps of golden wires . " But there is a limit beyond which poetry and music cannot go together ; and it is remarkable , that from the point where they separate , poetry assumnes a higher and more ...
... thousand choirs , Touch their celestial harps of golden wires . " But there is a limit beyond which poetry and music cannot go together ; and it is remarkable , that from the point where they separate , poetry assumnes a higher and more ...
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... thousand of which he has produced one partaking of all and concentrating their excellences , like the Venus of Apelles , to which the beauties of Greece lent their loveliness , and were abundantly repaid by having that part in her which ...
... thousand of which he has produced one partaking of all and concentrating their excellences , like the Venus of Apelles , to which the beauties of Greece lent their loveliness , and were abundantly repaid by having that part in her which ...
Side 28
... thousand for one of them sympa- thizing rather with the transport of the former than the agony of the latter . Here , then , sculpture and painting have reached their climax ; neither of them can give the actual thoughts of the ...
... thousand for one of them sympa- thizing rather with the transport of the former than the agony of the latter . Here , then , sculpture and painting have reached their climax ; neither of them can give the actual thoughts of the ...
Side 32
... thousand pounds for a single picture , -than that Sir Walter Scott should have been paid five hundred for the Lay of the Last Minstrel , and from one to two , from two to three , and from three to four thousand pounds for so many other ...
... thousand pounds for a single picture , -than that Sir Walter Scott should have been paid five hundred for the Lay of the Last Minstrel , and from one to two , from two to three , and from three to four thousand pounds for so many other ...
Side 45
... thousands ; but as it receded from their upturned eyes , -all , all at once a - gaze upon it , ―the thunders unaccountably died away , a general misgiving ran through every bosom , and when it was at length fixed , the mob themselves ...
... thousands ; but as it receded from their upturned eyes , -all , all at once a - gaze upon it , ―the thunders unaccountably died away , a general misgiving ran through every bosom , and when it was at length fixed , the mob themselves ...
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