Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad: With Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected, and a New Edition of the "Diary of an Ennuyee.", 1. kötetHarper & Brothers, 1834 Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) was a British writer, fiminist, and art historian who became widely known for her "Charactoristics of Women" published in 1832 and "Winter Studies and Summer Ramblings in Canada" published in 1838, based on her travels through upper Canada and northern Michigan in 1836 and 1837 |
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33. oldal
... feet and a half in height ; the colossal features and , I may add , the colossal expression , -- grand without exaggeration - so awfully vast , and yet so gloriously beautiful ; the full rich lips curled with dis- dain -- the mighty ...
... feet and a half in height ; the colossal features and , I may add , the colossal expression , -- grand without exaggeration - so awfully vast , and yet so gloriously beautiful ; the full rich lips curled with dis- dain -- the mighty ...
38. oldal
... the undulating outlines of the Seven Mountains seemed to dissolve into the skies , and the Rhine was spread out at their feet like a lake - so ample , and so still ; -if you have never seen the stars shine 38 SKETCHES OF ART ,
... the undulating outlines of the Seven Mountains seemed to dissolve into the skies , and the Rhine was spread out at their feet like a lake - so ample , and so still ; -if you have never seen the stars shine 38 SKETCHES OF ART ,
72. oldal
... feet : -nothing , you see , like going at once to nature ! In the course of twenty - five years , Rauch has executed sixty - nine busts , of which twenty are colossal . Among his numerous other works , designed or executed within the ...
... feet : -nothing , you see , like going at once to nature ! In the course of twenty - five years , Rauch has executed sixty - nine busts , of which twenty are colossal . Among his numerous other works , designed or executed within the ...
96. oldal
... feet , hands , and head were small in proportion to her figure ; her face was not so striking - it was pretty , rather than handsome ; her small mouth closed firmly , so as to give a marked and singular expression of resolution and ...
... feet , hands , and head were small in proportion to her figure ; her face was not so striking - it was pretty , rather than handsome ; her small mouth closed firmly , so as to give a marked and singular expression of resolution and ...
101. oldal
... feet , and kissed the hem of her gown ! " I asked her whether she had not feared to risk the safety of her generous friend ? She replied , " That thought did was strike me -- but what would you have ? -- I 2 LITERATURE , AND CHARACTER .
... feet , and kissed the hem of her gown ! " I asked her whether she had not feared to risk the safety of her generous friend ? She replied , " That thought did was strike me -- but what would you have ? -- I 2 LITERATURE , AND CHARACTER .
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144. oldal - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave : — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
257. oldal - All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth; The grass is bright with rain-drops; - on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun, Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
44. oldal - And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
244. oldal - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
44. oldal - It is true, no age can restore a life, whereof, perhaps, there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
294. oldal - So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title : — Romeo, doff thy name ; And for that name, which is no part of thee, 90 Take all myself.
144. oldal - ... stairs rather directed to the use of the guest than to the eye of the artificer; and yet as the one chiefly heeded, so the other not neglected; each place handsome without curiosity, and homely without loathsomeness; not so dainty as not to be trod on, nor yet flubbered up with good fellowship; all more lasting than beautiful, but that the consideration of the exceeding lastingness made the eye believe it was exceeding beautiful.
281. oldal - Mrs. Siddons, in her visit to me, behaved with great modesty and propriety, and left nothing behind her to be censured or despised. Neither praise nor money, the two powerful corrupters of mankind, seem to have depraved her.
260. oldal - I remember formerly being often diverted with this kind of seers ; they come, ask what such a room is called, in which sir Robert lay, write it down, admire a lobster or a cabbage in a marketpiece, dispute whether the last room was green or purple, and then hurry to the inn for fear the fish should be over-dressed.
293. oldal - My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late ! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.