Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... painter's eye , he brings to bear upon every subject the force of erudition , the images of poetry , the charm of varied scenery , and the eloquence of impassioned feeling . Hence his writings display a reach and variety of imagery , a ...
... painter's eye , he brings to bear upon every subject the force of erudition , the images of poetry , the charm of varied scenery , and the eloquence of impassioned feeling . Hence his writings display a reach and variety of imagery , a ...
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... painted , with his usual descriptive powers , one of the most familiar of these examples-- " What ingenious springs move the feet of a bird ? It is not by a con- traction of muscles dependent on his will that he maintains himself firm ...
... painted , with his usual descriptive powers , one of the most familiar of these examples-- " What ingenious springs move the feet of a bird ? It is not by a con- traction of muscles dependent on his will that he maintains himself firm ...
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... painter who traced the long lines on the sky had occasionally trembled . " The chain on the eastern side forms part of the mountains of Judea- less elevated and more uneven than the ridge on the west : it differs also in its character ...
... painter who traced the long lines on the sky had occasionally trembled . " The chain on the eastern side forms part of the mountains of Judea- less elevated and more uneven than the ridge on the west : it differs also in its character ...
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... painted , with inimitable tenderness and pathos , the conjugal attachment of Hector and Andromache ; but he had no conception of love as a passion , mingled with sentiment and independent of posses- sion . The wrath of Achilles is the ...
... painted , with inimitable tenderness and pathos , the conjugal attachment of Hector and Andromache ; but he had no conception of love as a passion , mingled with sentiment and independent of posses- sion . The wrath of Achilles is the ...
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... painted with graphic fidelity and incomparable force , often with extraordinary beauty , the appearances of nature ; but it was as illustrations , or for the purpose of similitude only that he did so . It was on human events that his ...
... painted with graphic fidelity and incomparable force , often with extraordinary beauty , the appearances of nature ; but it was as illustrations , or for the purpose of similitude only that he did so . It was on human events that his ...
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