The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ...: With a Memoir by Henry William Beechy, Volume 1G. Bell & sons, 1909 |
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Pagina 7 - DANTE. The Inferno. A Literal Prose Translation, with the Text of the Original printed on the same page.
Pagina 12 - HOOPER'S (G.) Waterloo : The Downfall of the First Napoleon : a History of the Campaign of 1815.
Pagina 23 - Histories of the Church from AD 332 to AD 427 ; and from AD 431 to AD 544. Translated from the Greek. 5^.
Pagina 1 - APPIAN'S Roman History. Translated by Horace White, MA, LL.D. With Maps and Illustrations. 2 vols. 6s. each.
Pagina 17 - PASCAL'S Thoughts. Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul. 3rd Edition, y, dd. PAULI'S (Dr. R.) Life of Alfred the Great. Translated from the German. To which is appended Alfred's ANGLO-SAXON VERSION OF OROSIUS. With a literal Translation interpaged, Notes, and an ANGLO-SAXON GRAMMAR and GLOSSARY, by B. Thorpe. 5^. PAUSANIAS
Pagina 167 - 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 talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.
Pagina 333 - All the objects which are exhibited to our view by nature, upon close examination will be found to have their blemishes and defects. The most beautiful forms have something about them like weakness, minuteness, or imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of these forms ; and which by a long habit of observing what any set of objects of the same kind have in common, has acquired the power of discerning what...
Pagina 317 - Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory: nothing can come of nothing: he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.
Pagina 16 - History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles. Translated by JE Ryland. 2 vols. 3*. 6d. each. Memorials of Christian Life In the Early and Middle Ages ; including Light in Dark Places.
Pagina 18 - Select Works of. Translated by Thomas Taylor. With an Introduction containing the substance of Porphyry's Plotinus. Edited by GRS Mead, BA, MRAS $s.