| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1896 - 616 pagine
...strange mental process, makes us take greater pleasure in the object painted than in the thing itself. ' We're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things wo have passed Perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see.' We need only compare Cimabue's Madonna,... | |
| 1916 - 986 pagine
...our attention. Browning expresses this in 'Fra Lippo Lippi,' where he says, — For, don't you mark, we're made so that we love First when we see them...have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see. But the highest office of art is not so much to attract our attention to beautiful objects as to make... | |
| Robert Browning - 1863 - 360 pagine
...— (which you can't) There 's no advantage ! you must beat her, then." For, don't you mark, we 're made so that we love First when we see them painted,...have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see ; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out. . Have you noticed, now, Your cullion's... | |
| Richard St. John Tyrwhitt - 1868 - 520 pagine
...information from books is rather to under1 Comp. Browning, ' Fra Lippo Lippi :'— ' For, don't you mark, we're made so, that we love First when we see them...passed Perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see,' <fec., &e. value than to admire what he does not find in his books. Book-knowledge is rapidly gained,... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1870 - 796 pagine
...pointed out by the unerring pen or pencil of the connoisseur. For, as Browning says : We're so made that we love First when we see them painted — things...Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see : And so they're better painted — better to us Which is the same thing. A faithful poet thus shows us Nature... | |
| Richard St. John Tyrwhitt - 1875 - 438 pagine
...the vulgar of all classes. It is 1 Comp. Browning, ' Fra Lippo Lippi : ' — •For, don't you mark, we're made so, that we love First when we see them...passed Perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see,' Sic., &c. ADMIRATION. 9 I exactly the same in fine people, who vote Art a bore, as it is in untaught... | |
| 1889 - 680 pagine
...AMATEURS. SF.VENTH PAPKR. THE STUDY OF PARTICULAR TRUTHS. — I. OF THK OPEN SKY. '• For, don't you mark, we're made so that we love First when we see them painted things wn have passed Perhaps a thousand times, nor cared to see : And so they are better painted — better... | |
| Mary Linskill - 1884 - 338 pagine
...is the passage, Genevieve ? " " You mean the one in ' Fra Lippo Lippi' ?— ' For don't you mark ? we're made so that we love First when we see them...hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted—better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other... | |
| 1884 - 566 pagine
...quoted, which Mr. Browning puts into the mouth of Fra Lippo Lippi are, I believe, perfectly true : " We're made so that we love First when we see them...have passed Perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see ; VOL. XIII. F And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given... | |
| Henry Peach Robinson - 1884 - 156 pagine
...fact of representing them may add interest to a scene. As Browning says : — " For, don't you mark, we're made so that we love First when we see them...passed Perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see." A local object need not be taken at its worst. The ugliest thing with which man has disfigured nature... | |
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