The Quarterly Review, Volume 66William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1840 - English literature |
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... remarkable for their importance or correctness , may never- theless be considered the fullest memoir that had appeared prior to the far superior work of Passavant . The credit of instituting a new kind of research in the history of art ...
... remarkable for their importance or correctness , may never- theless be considered the fullest memoir that had appeared prior to the far superior work of Passavant . The credit of instituting a new kind of research in the history of art ...
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... remarkable circumstances by which Raphael was surrounded in his youth - circumstances which must not only have had an in- fluence on his taste , but which brought him in contact with the most celebrated men of his age , many of whom ...
... remarkable circumstances by which Raphael was surrounded in his youth - circumstances which must not only have had an in- fluence on his taste , but which brought him in contact with the most celebrated men of his age , many of whom ...
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... remarkable confirmation of the truth of Vasari's praises . Pietro della Francesca and Bramantino da Milano had painted some frescoes in the Vatican . These , Vasari informs us , were destroyed to make way for Raphael's Deliverance of ...
... remarkable confirmation of the truth of Vasari's praises . Pietro della Francesca and Bramantino da Milano had painted some frescoes in the Vatican . These , Vasari informs us , were destroyed to make way for Raphael's Deliverance of ...
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... remarkable example of this religious spirit appeared till Fra Giovanni Angelico da Fiesole , a Dominican monk after- wards beatified , poured forth a quantity of works , in which the ex- quisite purity and sanctity of the expressions ...
... remarkable example of this religious spirit appeared till Fra Giovanni Angelico da Fiesole , a Dominican monk after- wards beatified , poured forth a quantity of works , in which the ex- quisite purity and sanctity of the expressions ...
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... temper with the monks of his convent ; a most remarkable circumstance ( grandissima cosa ) which to me seems almost incredible . ' The The characteristics above described will be found to present the 12 Passavant's Life of Raphael .
... temper with the monks of his convent ; a most remarkable circumstance ( grandissima cosa ) which to me seems almost incredible . ' The The characteristics above described will be found to present the 12 Passavant's Life of Raphael .
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Page 18 - hest to say so ! Fer. Admired Miranda ! Indeed the top of admiration ; worth What's dearest to the world ! Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard ; and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear : for several virtues Have I liked several women ; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Page 258 - to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed ; to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country.
Page 375 - And now, what time ye all may read through dimming tears his story, How discord on the music fell and darkness on the glory, And how when, one by one, sweet sounds and wandering lights departed, He wore no less a loving face because so brokenhearted, He shall be strong to sanctify the poet's high vocation.
Page 174 - Have always therefore printed in your remembrance, how great a treasure is committed to your charge. For they are the sheep of Christ, which he bought with his death, and for whom he shed his blood.
Page 163 - God's holy Word he may receive the benefit of absolution, together with ghostly counsel and advice, to the quieting of his conscience, and avoiding of all scruple and doubtfulness.
Page 376 - But while in blindness he remained unconscious of the guiding, And things provided came without the sweet sense of providing, He testified this solemn truth though frenzy desolated — Nor man nor nature satisfy, whom only God created...
Page 375 - IT is a place where poets crowned may feel the heart's decaying; It is a place where happy saints may weep amid their praying; Yet let the grief and humbleness as low as silence languish: Earth surely now may give her calm to whom she gave her anguish.
Page 474 - I could hear, was no longer a maddening discord, but a melting one; like inarticulate cries, and sobbings of a dumb creature, which in the ear of Heaven are prayers. The poor Earth, with her poor joys, was now my needy Mother, not my cruel Stepdame; Man, with his so mad Wants and so mean Endeavours, had become the dearer to me ; and even for his sufferings and his sins, I now first named him Brother. Thus was I standing in the porch of that 'Sanctuary of Sorrow,' by strange, steep ways had I too...
Page 470 - On the hardest adamant some footprint of us is stamped' in ; the last Rear of the host will read traces of the earliest Van. 'But whence? — O Heaven, whither ? Sense knows not; Faith ' knows not ; only that it is through Mystery to Mystery, from ' God and to God. " We are such stuff ' As Dreams are made of, and our little life ' Is rounded with a sleep !"
Page 477 - The Situation that has not its Duty, its Ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable Actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal; work it out therefrom; and working, believe, live, be free.