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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8. oldal
... truth of the facts and impressions she has ventured to record . It was difficult to give sketches of art ... truth ; but , in fact , to conceal truth by throwing over it the veil of fiction . " I regret that even this de- ception was ...
... truth of the facts and impressions she has ventured to record . It was difficult to give sketches of art ... truth ; but , in fact , to conceal truth by throwing over it the veil of fiction . " I regret that even this de- ception was ...
9. oldal
... truth ; that it was , in reality , what it assumed to be , " a true picture of natural and feminine feeling . " I confess , that to go over the pages again for the purpose of correction , and for the first time since their publication ...
... truth ; that it was , in reality , what it assumed to be , " a true picture of natural and feminine feeling . " I confess , that to go over the pages again for the purpose of correction , and for the first time since their publication ...
15. oldal
... truth's sake . But how is the cause of truth to be advanced by the insolent pub- lication of a mass of crude thoughts and hasty observations picked up here and there , " as pigeons pick up peas , " such as now lie within the clasps of ...
... truth's sake . But how is the cause of truth to be advanced by the insolent pub- lication of a mass of crude thoughts and hasty observations picked up here and there , " as pigeons pick up peas , " such as now lie within the clasps of ...
16. oldal
... truth of the picture , for it will fit others as well as the personages I have brought before you , who are , indeed , but specimens of a species . This group , then , had designedly or instinctively in- trenched themselves in a corner ...
... truth of the picture , for it will fit others as well as the personages I have brought before you , who are , indeed , but specimens of a species . This group , then , had designedly or instinctively in- trenched themselves in a corner ...
17. oldal
... truth , she might have sat for one of Guido's angels . They walked up and down the deck , neither seeking nor avoiding the proximity of others . They accepted the tele- scopes which the gentlemen , particularly some young English- men ...
... truth , she might have sat for one of Guido's angels . They walked up and down the deck , neither seeking nor avoiding the proximity of others . They accepted the tele- scopes which the gentlemen , particularly some young English- men ...
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actress admirable Albert Durer ALDA Althorpe amused appeared artists Bavaria beautiful believe Bess of Hardwicke brother busts celebrated character charming Chrimhilde colossal colour countenance Countess Dannecker daughter Dresden Duke elegant Elgin marbles emperor England English excited expression exquisite eyes fancy Fanny Kemble feeling figure Frankfort Frederic fresco friends gallery genius German Goëthe grace grand hand Hardwicke head heart honour husband idea imagination Juliet king King of Bavaria Klenze Lady Leo von Klenze look Madame Madame de Staël Madonna magnificent manner marble MEDON mind moral Munich nature never noble Nuremberg once painted painter palace passion Petersburgh picture poet poetical poetry portraits Prince princess queen remember represented rich Rubens scene sculpture sentiment Siddons sister soul spirit splendid statue style subjects talents taste theatre thing thought Tieck tion Titian told truth whole wife woman women Wurtemburg young
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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.