The Illustrated Magazine of ArtAlexander Montgomery, 1853 |
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... took its rise was one of rapine and violence . For a system of law , imperfect indeed , but at least founded on right , and administered with impartiality , the Norman Conquest substituted the will of the strongest . The first peal ...
... took its rise was one of rapine and violence . For a system of law , imperfect indeed , but at least founded on right , and administered with impartiality , the Norman Conquest substituted the will of the strongest . The first peal ...
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... took , being left to his own resources to find the argument and language . The celebrated speech put into the mouth of Mr. Pitt , in 1741 , when that distinguished orator replied to the taunts of Horace Walpole on account of his youth ...
... took , being left to his own resources to find the argument and language . The celebrated speech put into the mouth of Mr. Pitt , in 1741 , when that distinguished orator replied to the taunts of Horace Walpole on account of his youth ...
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... took his pencil , Lord Brougham was speaking , and soon the pencil of Tyas was on his track . The legal orator went on , and the mind of the reporter unconsciously kept upon the double thread of Brougham and Cicero . The scholar in the ...
... took his pencil , Lord Brougham was speaking , and soon the pencil of Tyas was on his track . The legal orator went on , and the mind of the reporter unconsciously kept upon the double thread of Brougham and Cicero . The scholar in the ...
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... took plebeian adventures for the subject of their tales , such as those of Peter Ploughman . Chaucer was one of the principal poets of this class . Their leading characteristic was hatred for the Norman language , and for those who used ...
... took plebeian adventures for the subject of their tales , such as those of Peter Ploughman . Chaucer was one of the principal poets of this class . Their leading characteristic was hatred for the Norman language , and for those who used ...
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... took him under her patronage . His fame began to spread . Curiosity brought strangers from all sides to see and examine him . Stanislaus , the benevolent king of Poland , who , after losing his crown , assumed the title of Duke of ...
... took him under her patronage . His fame began to spread . Curiosity brought strangers from all sides to see and examine him . Stanislaus , the benevolent king of Poland , who , after losing his crown , assumed the title of Duke of ...
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Page 330 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet *, and only took snuff.
Page 212 - All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Page 212 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Page 62 - To have produced it, to have preserved it, to have matured it, constitute the immortal claim of England on the esteem of mankind.
Page 22 - I am not that strong, active man you once knew me. You scarcely can conceive how much eight years of disappointment, anguish, and study, have worn me down.
Page 172 - There is a glorious city in the sea; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt seaweed Clings to the marble of her palaces.
Page 180 - ... found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts that we took a wrong course, and that, before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with.
Page 22 - I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated.
Page 148 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country.
Page 19 - This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St Paul's Churchyard, who has written so many little books for children : he called himself their friend, but he was the friend of all mankind. He was no sooner alighted, but he was in haste to be gone ; for he was ever on business of the utmost importance, and was at that time actually compiling materials for the history of one Mr Thomas Trip.