History of Sculpture, Painting, and ArchitectureConstable and Company, 1829 - 342 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 272 - As with the force of winds and waters pent When mountains tremble, those two massy pillars With horrible convulsion to and fro He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
الصفحة 337 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone, with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in his honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
الصفحة 300 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might ? thy grand in soul ? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were...
الصفحة 165 - I remember very well my own disappointment when I first visited the Vatican ; but on confessing my feelings to a brother student, of whose ingenuousness I had a high opinion, he acknowledged that the works of Raphael had the same effect on him, or rather that they did not produce the effect which he expected.
الصفحة 335 - Await alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
الصفحة 316 - It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away.
الصفحة 165 - In a short time a new taste and new perceptions began to dawn upon me ; and I was convinced that I had originally formed a false opinion of the perfection of art, and that this great painter was well entitled to the high rank which he holds in the estimation of the world.
الصفحة 292 - And seek the gods, t' avert th 'impending woe. And now to Priam's stately courts he came, Raised on arch'd columns of stupendous frame ; O'er these a range of marble structure runs, The rich pavilions of his fifty sons, In fifty chambers lodged : and rooms of state...
الصفحة 297 - First unadorned, And nobly plain, the manly Doric rose ; The Ionic then, with decent matron grace, Her airy pillar heaved ; luxuriant last, The rich Corinthian spread her wanton wreath.
الصفحة 165 - ... minds, like tinder, should catch fire from the divine spark of Raphael's genius. I flatter myself that now it would be so, and that I have a just and lively perception of his great powers ; but let it be always remembered, that the excellence of his style is not on the surface, but lies deep ; and at the first view is seen but mistily.