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... pursuit to its height , to a pitch of madness , and think no price too dear to pay for its full gratification . Every thing else is dross . They go to death as to a bridal bed , and sacrifice themselves or others with- out remorse at ...
... pursuit to its height , to a pitch of madness , and think no price too dear to pay for its full gratification . Every thing else is dross . They go to death as to a bridal bed , and sacrifice themselves or others with- out remorse at ...
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... pursuit , which may be both agreeably and advantageously diversified with other lighter ones , as the sub- ordinate parts of a picture may be managed so as to give effect to the centre group . It has been observed by a sensible man ...
... pursuit , which may be both agreeably and advantageously diversified with other lighter ones , as the sub- ordinate parts of a picture may be managed so as to give effect to the centre group . It has been observed by a sensible man ...
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... of his occupation the instant it gave a promise of turning to account , and his whole object in the pursuit of art was to erect scaf- foldings . The same intense interest in the most frivolous 46 ON APPLICATION TO STUDY .
... of his occupation the instant it gave a promise of turning to account , and his whole object in the pursuit of art was to erect scaf- foldings . The same intense interest in the most frivolous 46 ON APPLICATION TO STUDY .
Page 48
... pursuit of art can come to no good . It is only an apology for idleness and vanity . Foreign travel especially makes men pedants , not art- ists . What we seek , we must find at home or nowhere . The way to do great things is to set ...
... pursuit of art can come to no good . It is only an apology for idleness and vanity . Foreign travel especially makes men pedants , not art- ists . What we seek , we must find at home or nowhere . The way to do great things is to set ...
Page 78
... pursuit as the only one worth attending to . We thus set ourselves up as the standard of perfection , and treat every thing else that diverges from that standard as beneath our notice . At this rate , a contempt for any thing and a ...
... pursuit as the only one worth attending to . We thus set ourselves up as the standard of perfection , and treat every thing else that diverges from that standard as beneath our notice . At this rate , a contempt for any thing and a ...
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Page 43 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Page 33 - I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 44 - For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Page 14 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires.
Page 141 - With what eagerness I used to look forward to the next number, and open the prints ! Ah ! never again shall I feel the enthusiastic delight with which I gazed at the figures, and anticipated the story and adventures of Major Bath and Commodore Trunnion, of Trim and my Uncle Toby, of Don Quixote and Sancho and Dapple, of Gil Bias and Dame Lorenza Sephora, of Laura and the fair Lucretia, whose lips open and shut like buds of roses. To what nameless ideas did they give rise, — with what airy delights...
Page 236 - Time travels in divers paces with divers persons : I'll tell you who time ambles withal, who time trots withal, who time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.
Page 272 - Still green with bays each ancient altar stands Above the reach of sacrilegious hands, Secure from flames, from Envy's fiercer rage, Destructive war, and all-involving Age. See from each clime the learn'd their incense bring ! Hear in all tongues consenting paeans ring!
Page 225 - T' entomb his Britons slain by Hengist's guile : Or Druid priests, sprinkled with human gore, Taught mid thy massy maze their mystic lore: Or Danish chiefs, enrich'd with savage spoil, To victory's idol vast, an unhewn shrine, Rear'd the rude heap, or in thy hallow'd ground Repose the kings of Brutus...
Page 44 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Page 139 - ... contents of the work brought back to my mind in all their vividness, but the old associations of the faces and persons of those I then knew, as they were in their life-time — the place where I sat to read the volume, the day when I got it, the feeling of the air, the fields, the sky — return, and all my early impressions with them. This is better to me — those places, those times, those persons, and those feelings that come across me as I retrace the story and devour the page, are to me...