Some Remarks on Art with Reference to the Studies of the University, in a Letter Addressed to the Rev. Richard GreswellFrancis Macpherson, 1846 - 73 pagine |
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Pagina 63 - Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Pagina 27 - And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
Pagina 63 - Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum ; et, quasi cognatione quadam, inter se continentur.
Pagina 65 - ... with salutes of eggs in that independent state in which they have nothing to fear from decay. Without stopping to say any thing of Langton, the ancestor of the one who was more distinguished by the respect and confidence of Johnson than his fathers by their rank and station, we find a pleasant mention of Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham in the reign of Edward the Third. He was eminent as a scholar, statesman, judge, and divine ; though all these various qualifications were not so efficient in...
Pagina 72 - ... inspection, although the nearest of them were not seen at a smaller distance than forty feet. We cannot have a stronger proof that considerations of economy entered very little into the calculations of Pericles, and that the Athenian artists aimed at nothing short of perfection in their productions...
Pagina 23 - Are we not reminded in all this of a certain uniformity, or sameness, a certain recurrence of thought and expression* in the Greek drama? of that eternally recurring similef of the mournful nightingale for example, bewailing