Essays Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3William Blackwood, 1850 |
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... picture , than by the traits of genius which he has combined from every quarter where its footsteps have trod . His style seems formed on the lofty strains of Isaiah , or the beautiful images of the Book of Job , more than all the ...
... picture , than by the traits of genius which he has combined from every quarter where its footsteps have trod . His style seems formed on the lofty strains of Isaiah , or the beautiful images of the Book of Job , more than all the ...
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... pictures of imaginary beauty , like those of Mrs Radcliffe , having no resemblance to actual nature , but faithful and graphic portraits of real scenes , drawn with the eye of a poet , but the fidelity of a con- summate draughtsman . He ...
... pictures of imaginary beauty , like those of Mrs Radcliffe , having no resemblance to actual nature , but faithful and graphic portraits of real scenes , drawn with the eye of a poet , but the fidelity of a con- summate draughtsman . He ...
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... picture , professedly of an impious tendency , and place beside it another picture on the same subject from the Genius of Christianity , and I will venture to affirm that the latter picture , however feebly executed , will weaken the ...
... picture , professedly of an impious tendency , and place beside it another picture on the same subject from the Genius of Christianity , and I will venture to affirm that the latter picture , however feebly executed , will weaken the ...
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... picture in the midst of so many copies , we must recur to that which , by its unity and the perfection of its parts , unfolds the genius of a master . It is that which we find in Genesis , the original of all those pictures which we see ...
... picture in the midst of so many copies , we must recur to that which , by its unity and the perfection of its parts , unfolds the genius of a master . It is that which we find in Genesis , the original of all those pictures which we see ...
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... picture changed while I still contemplated it ; soon a blended glory of rays of rose and gold , diverging from a common centre , mounted to the zenith : these columns were effaced , revived , and effaced anew , until the sun rose above ...
... picture changed while I still contemplated it ; soon a blended glory of rays of rose and gold , diverging from a common centre , mounted to the zenith : these columns were effaced , revived , and effaced anew , until the sun rose above ...
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