Selections from the Irish Quarterly Review: 1st ser. ...W.B. Kelly, 1857 |
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... Paintings from the Crystal Palace , and exalted Sculpture to a position it never before occupied . " The fact is , the Royal Commissioners were most anxious to have paintings , and solicited the co - ope- ration of the Royal Academy ...
... Paintings from the Crystal Palace , and exalted Sculpture to a position it never before occupied . " The fact is , the Royal Commissioners were most anxious to have paintings , and solicited the co - ope- ration of the Royal Academy ...
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... paintings were without landscape or scenic backgrounds , the figures standing isolated from each other , with , sometimes , a second row over head , to represent what any modern Artist would place in his middle distance to this day ...
... paintings were without landscape or scenic backgrounds , the figures standing isolated from each other , with , sometimes , a second row over head , to represent what any modern Artist would place in his middle distance to this day ...
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... paint only with his finger . According to the above , he must have been " a real artist ; nevertheless , the success of his efforts was not such as to induce other parties to do likewise . We opine that Sculptors trying their finger and ...
... paint only with his finger . According to the above , he must have been " a real artist ; nevertheless , the success of his efforts was not such as to induce other parties to do likewise . We opine that Sculptors trying their finger and ...
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... painted them never dreamt of , and discover wants that Art never can , did - never will sup- ply . Such rhapsodies ... paint- ing , all subjects , from the lowliest to the most exalted , have alike , by their delicacy of expression ...
... painted them never dreamt of , and discover wants that Art never can , did - never will sup- ply . Such rhapsodies ... paint- ing , all subjects , from the lowliest to the most exalted , have alike , by their delicacy of expression ...
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... paintings and sketches of William Mulready were exhibited in the rooms of the Society of Arts , and as we gazed upon the walls whereon James Barry portrayed those noble conceptions of his glorious genius - devoting six years to the ...
... paintings and sketches of William Mulready were exhibited in the rooms of the Society of Arts , and as we gazed upon the walls whereon James Barry portrayed those noble conceptions of his glorious genius - devoting six years to the ...
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Page 385 - When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
Page 124 - HE that loves a rosy Cheek, Or a coral Lip admires ; Or from star-like Eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires : As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away ! But a smooth and steadfast Mind, Gentle Thoughts, and calm Desires, Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle never-dying fires ! Where these are not ; I despise Lovely Cheeks ! or Lips ! or Eyes...
Page 399 - O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away ! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be ! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place — Oh, to abide in the desert with thee ! JAMES HOGG.
Page 303 - Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime! I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time...
Page 123 - Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Page 5 - And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
Page 334 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap...
Page 119 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 122 - FOLLOW a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly it, it will pursue. So court a mistress, she denies you, Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men ? At morn and even shades are longest, At noon they are or short or none. So men at weakest, they are strongest, But grant us perfect, they're not known. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men...
Page 266 - An Argument, proving, that according to the Covenant of Eternal Life, revealed in the Scriptures, Man may be translated from hence into that Eternal Life, without passing through Death, although the Human Nature of Christ himself could not be thus translated till he had passed through Death ; 1703.