Works, Volume 5J. Wiley & sons, 1887 |
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Albert of Nuremberg beauty Bishopric of Sion blue bough branch buds Ceto chapter character clouds color Correggio curves dark death delight dragon drawing Durer earth engraving Erytheia expression fall farther feeling figure flowers foliage foreground foreshortened fruit Geryon Giorgione give golden grace Greek ground heart heaven Hesiod Hesperides hills human J. M. W. Turner kind labor Lake Lucerne landscape leaf leaves less light lines look Madonna mass meaning Medusa mind mountain nature nearly Nereus never noble painted painters partly passion perfect perhaps Phorcys picture piece pine Plate pre-Raphaelites rain reader respecting rock Rubens seed seen shade shoot side sketches sorrow soul spirit spray stem strange strength things thought tion Titian touch trees true truth Turner Typhon Vandyck vapor Venetian Veronese vulgar wholly wind word Wouvermans
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Pagina 84 - Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane In some untrodden region of my mind, Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain, Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind...
Pagina 84 - With buds, and bells, and stars without a name, •With all the gardener Fancy e'er could feign, Who, breeding flowers, will never breed the same; And there shall be for thee all soft delight That shadowy thought can win...
Pagina 102 - Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass, — the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every fibre into fitful brightness and glossy traverses of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace.
Pagina 329 - There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough : The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
Pagina 211 - For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red ; it is full of mixture ; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Pagina 78 - They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Pagina 301 - Ye mists and exhalations that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honor to the world's great Author rise...
Pagina 102 - And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the head-stone.
Pagina 94 - But the leaves of the herbage at our feet take all kinds of strange shapes, as if to invite us to examine them. Starshaped, heart-shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated ; in whorls, in tufts, in spires, in wreaths endlessly expressive, deceptive, fantastic, never the same from footstalk to blossom ; they seem perpetually to tempt our watchfulness, and take delight in outstripping our wonder.
Pagina 312 - Almightie selfe she did maligne, Because to man so mercifull he was, And unto all his creatures so benigne, Sith she herselfe was of his grace indigne : For all this worlds faire workmanship she tride Unto his last confusion to bring, And that great golden chaine quite to divide, With which it blessed Concord hath together tide.