Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Band 138William Blackwood, 1885 |
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... cause of weakness is the want of scale . Hardly a figure is above a third the size of life , except the full- length portraits , which from above dwarf the small fancy articles near at hand . But the want of scale is not more fatal than ...
... cause of weakness is the want of scale . Hardly a figure is above a third the size of life , except the full- length portraits , which from above dwarf the small fancy articles near at hand . But the want of scale is not more fatal than ...
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... cause is that landscapes suffer under the growing force of realism in figure - subjects . Yet further rea- son , if not of decadence , of neglect , may be that the average Englishman likes lively incidents and pretty stories , and feels ...
... cause is that landscapes suffer under the growing force of realism in figure - subjects . Yet further rea- son , if not of decadence , of neglect , may be that the average Englishman likes lively incidents and pretty stories , and feels ...
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Yet the failure is signal as the study is conspicuous , and the cause of the miscarriage dates back to the first conception . The piece is necessarily without dramatic action , because the stage lies outside the picture . We see only ...
Yet the failure is signal as the study is conspicuous , and the cause of the miscarriage dates back to the first conception . The piece is necessarily without dramatic action , because the stage lies outside the picture . We see only ...
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... cause . Once upon a time there was a little white toadstool , born of pale dews and of stealthy saps , high up on the branch of a stately forest- tree . It was snowy white ; and when the moonbeams fell upon it , it looked like a white ...
... cause . Once upon a time there was a little white toadstool , born of pale dews and of stealthy saps , high up on the branch of a stately forest- tree . It was snowy white ; and when the moonbeams fell upon it , it looked like a white ...
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... cause , Vincenz's acquaintance with the Hungarian language was sufficient for the occa- sion . He inquired the cause of this strange arrest . " An unauthorised and suspicious traversing of the frontier , ” replied the least ragged of ...
... cause , Vincenz's acquaintance with the Hungarian language was sufficient for the occa- sion . He inquired the cause of this strange arrest . " An unauthorised and suspicious traversing of the frontier , ” replied the least ragged of ...
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Seite 475 - How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
Seite 133 - I like not to take her; then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
Seite 6 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Seite 473 - Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Seite 211 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible.
Seite 758 - Nought's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content : 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
Seite 542 - Swinburne may take refuge in the argument that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, and that therefore his transformer will be equally benefitted if Mr.
Seite 116 - But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah. 9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En-rogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants: 10 But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.
Seite 115 - Scotland, and the hour when they are again laid bare and exposed to our curious and admiring eyes. Yet we behold them stamped upon the rock, distinct as the track of the passing animal upon the recent snow ; as if to show that thousands of years are but as nothing amidst eternity, — and, as it were, in mockery of the fleeting perishable course of the mightiest potentates among mankind.
Seite 651 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; II But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.