The Royal academy review, a guide to the exhibition of the Royal academy of arts, by the Council of four

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1858
 

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Side 55 - He cannot make his hero talk like a great man ; he must make him look like one. For which reason, he ought to be well studied in the analysis of those circumstances which constitute dignity of appearance in real life.
Side 13 - Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Side 74 - Rowlands' Kalydor, FOR THE SKIN AND COMPLEXION, Is unequalled for its rare and inestimable qualities. The radiant bloom it imparts to the Cheek, the softness and delicacy which it induces of the Hands and Anns, its capability of soothing irritation, and removing cutaneous defects. discolorations, and all unsightly appearances, reader it INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY TOILET. Price 4s. 6d. and 8s. 6d, per bottle. Rowlands...
Side 107 - O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Side 56 - ... for others, that we think on maist pleasantly. And the thoughts that ye hae intervened to spare the puir thing's life will be sweeter in that hour, come when it may, than if a word of your mouth could hang the haill Porteous mob at the tail of ae tow.
Side 74 - ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, A delightfully fragrant and transparent preparation for the Hair, and as an invigorator and beautifier beyond all precedent.
Side 23 - At church, in silks and satins new, With hoop of monstrous size; She never slumbered in her pew But when she shut her eyes.
Side 71 - An inferior artist is unwilling that any part of his industry should be lost upon the spectator. He takes as much pains to discover, as the greater artist does to conceal, the marks of his subordinate assiduity.
Side 71 - In works of the lower kind, everything appears studied, and encumbered; it is all boastful art and open affectation. The ignorant often part from such pictures with wonder in their mouths, and indifference in their hearts. But it is not enough in invention that the artist should restrain and keep under all the inferior parts of his subject; he must sometimes. deviate from vulgar and strict historical truth, in pursuing the grandeur of his design. How much the great style...
Side 63 - HAMLET. To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?

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