Table-talk: Or Original EssaysJohn Warren, 1821 - 400 pàgines |
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Pàgina 16
... human frame ; and painting combines them both incessantly * . The hand furnishes a prac- tical test of the correctness of the eye ; and the eye thus admonished , imposes fresh tasks of skill and industry upon the hand . Every stroke ...
... human frame ; and painting combines them both incessantly * . The hand furnishes a prac- tical test of the correctness of the eye ; and the eye thus admonished , imposes fresh tasks of skill and industry upon the hand . Every stroke ...
Pàgina 40
... kind ) had a delicacy in them peculiar to himself , and almost more than human . But I must not multiply instances . Parmegiano is one that alone takes in all the several kinds of variation , 40 ON THE PLEASURE OF PAINTING .
... kind ) had a delicacy in them peculiar to himself , and almost more than human . But I must not multiply instances . Parmegiano is one that alone takes in all the several kinds of variation , 40 ON THE PLEASURE OF PAINTING .
Pàgina 46
... human life , as the future can possibly be . To say that the past is of no importance , unworthy of a moment's re- gard , because it has gone by , and is no longer any thing , is an argument that cannot be held to any purpose : for if ...
... human life , as the future can possibly be . To say that the past is of no importance , unworthy of a moment's re- gard , because it has gone by , and is no longer any thing , is an argument that cannot be held to any purpose : for if ...
Pàgina 53
... human mind , the principle of action or will ; and of this the past has no hold , the future en- grosses it entirely to itself . It is this strong lever of the affections that gives so powerful a bias to our sentiments on this subject ...
... human mind , the principle of action or will ; and of this the past has no hold , the future en- grosses it entirely to itself . It is this strong lever of the affections that gives so powerful a bias to our sentiments on this subject ...
Pàgina 58
... easy to shew that it is the very extent of human life , the infinite number of things contained in it , its contradictory and fluctuating interests , the tran- sition from one situation to another , the hours , 58 ON THE PAST AND FUTURE .
... easy to shew that it is the very extent of human life , the infinite number of things contained in it , its contradictory and fluctuating interests , the tran- sition from one situation to another , the hours , 58 ON THE PAST AND FUTURE .
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Pàgina 291 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Pàgina 281 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires.
Pàgina 230 - But he, his own affections' counsellor, Is to himself — I will not say, how true — • But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
Pàgina 226 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them...
Pàgina 224 - For either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake ; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain, Through her perverseness, but shall see her...
Pàgina 339 - For perfect beauty in any species must combine all the characters which are beautiful in that species. It cannot consist in any one to the exclusion of the rest : no one, therefore, must be predominant, that no one may be deficient.
Pàgina 234 - There is no part of the world from whence we may not admire those planets which roll, like ours, in different orbits, round the same central sun ; from whence we may not discover an object still more stupendous, that army of fixed stars hung up in the immense space of the universe ; innumerable suns, whose beams enlighten and cherish the unknown worlds which roll around them : and whilst I am ravished by such contemplations as these, whilst my soul is thus raised up to heaven, it imports me little...
Pàgina 215 - Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used; that thought with him Is in its infancy. The man, whose eye Is ever on himself, doth look on one, The least of nature's works, one who might move The wise man to that scorn which wisdom holds Unlawful, ever.
Pàgina 219 - Malbrook to the wars is going " — he did not think of the tumble he has got since, the shock of which no one could have stood but himself. We see and hear chiefly of the favourites of Fortune and the Muse, of great generals, of first-rate actors, of celebrated poets. These are at the head; we are struck with the glittering eminence on which they stand, and long to set out on the same tempting career: — not thinking how many discontented half-pay lieutenants are in vain seeking promotion all their...
Pàgina 337 - I have laid down, that the idea of beauty in each species of beings is an invariable one, it may be objected, that in every particular species there are various central forms, which are separate and distinct from each other, and yet are undeniably beautiful ; that in the human figure, for instance, the beauty of Hercules is one, of the Gladiator another, of the Apollo another ; which makes so many different ideas of beauty.