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... painting . Finally , however , he began to pursue rhetoric and philosophy , and it was these two which formed his character and developed his talent ; and in after years , when he had become devoted to tragedy , it was the spirit of ...
... painting . Finally , however , he began to pursue rhetoric and philosophy , and it was these two which formed his character and developed his talent ; and in after years , when he had become devoted to tragedy , it was the spirit of ...
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... painter of the human heart . It is by this that he stands , and by this that he must continue to please throughout all time - because he has traced the eternal sentiments of our being . His chief aim is to move ; he knows the nature of ...
... painter of the human heart . It is by this that he stands , and by this that he must continue to please throughout all time - because he has traced the eternal sentiments of our being . His chief aim is to move ; he knows the nature of ...
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... paint , and does it so well that we assent to it and call it Nature . Even when the great and good Socrates is brought before us , held up in a basket , " walk- ing in the air and speculating about the sun , " we are forced to join in ...
... paint , and does it so well that we assent to it and call it Nature . Even when the great and good Socrates is brought before us , held up in a basket , " walk- ing in the air and speculating about the sun , " we are forced to join in ...
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... paint vice and ridicule in general terms , instead of putting actual persons upon the stage . This gradually led to the formation of types ; types moreover which , in a very short time , grew to be conventional : young lovers , light ...
... paint vice and ridicule in general terms , instead of putting actual persons upon the stage . This gradually led to the formation of types ; types moreover which , in a very short time , grew to be conventional : young lovers , light ...
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... paintings and sculpture of cloister and cathedral familiarized the faithful with the superstition . But it remained for the genius of Dante to collect the scattered details in existence before his time ; and , by the light of his wide ...
... paintings and sculpture of cloister and cathedral familiarized the faithful with the superstition . But it remained for the genius of Dante to collect the scattered details in existence before his time ; and , by the light of his wide ...
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Seite 433 - Although in the circle of his friends, where he might be unreserved with safety, he took a free share in conversation, his colloquial talents were not above mediocrity, possessing neither copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style.
Seite 432 - His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
Seite 433 - On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect; in nothing bad, in few points indifferent; and it may truly be said that never did Nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man an everlasting remembrance.
Seite 438 - with a feeling that I should never rise in my profession. My mind was staggered with a view of the difficulties I had to surmount, and the little interest I possessed. I could discover no means of reaching the object of my ambition. After a long and gloomy reverie, in which I almost wished myself overboard, a sudden glow of patriotism was kindled within me, and presented my king and country as my patron. Well, then," I exclaimed, " I will be a hero ! and, confiding in Providence, I will brave every...
Seite 418 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Seite 175 - by proofs of Scripture, or else by plain just arguments: I cannot recant otherwise. For it is neither safe nor prudent to do aught against conscience. Here stand I ; I can do no other: God assist me!
Seite 129 - He who sows the ground with care and diligence, acquires a greater stock of religious merit, than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers.
Seite 3 - Our religion has materialised itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it. But for poetry the idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion to-day is its unconscious poetry.
Seite 304 - History of the World, which exhibit the Byzantine period on a larger scale. Mahomet and his, Saracens soon fixed my attention ; and some instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Simon Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was led from one book to another till I had ranged round the circle of Oriental history. Before I was sixteen...
Seite 432 - Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whether obstacles opposed.