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... effect . Most of these poems have great originality in the thought and the motive powers . It is these , we suppose , that have made " The Brown Rosarie " so popular . It has long been handed about in manuscript , and hours have been ...
... effect . Most of these poems have great originality in the thought and the motive powers . It is these , we suppose , that have made " The Brown Rosarie " so popular . It has long been handed about in manuscript , and hours have been ...
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... effect would be more grand and simple ; nor should we be any loser as to the spirit ; it would all be there , only more concentrated as to the form , more full , if less subtle , in its emanations . The tendency to variety and delicacy ...
... effect would be more grand and simple ; nor should we be any loser as to the spirit ; it would all be there , only more concentrated as to the form , more full , if less subtle , in its emanations . The tendency to variety and delicacy ...
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... effect on the mind of the beholder . All high art says but one thing ; but this is said with more or less pleasure by the artist , felt with more or less pleasure by the beholder , according to the flexibility and fulness of the ...
... effect on the mind of the beholder . All high art says but one thing ; but this is said with more or less pleasure by the artist , felt with more or less pleasure by the beholder , according to the flexibility and fulness of the ...
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... effect so . " The following anecdote ex- hibits in a spirited manner the contrast between the free genius and the pedant critic . " Before Hadyn had lost his interest in conversation , he related with pleasure many anecdotes respecting ...
... effect so . " The following anecdote ex- hibits in a spirited manner the contrast between the free genius and the pedant critic . " Before Hadyn had lost his interest in conversation , he related with pleasure many anecdotes respecting ...
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... effect , he cried out , Quel semitono ( meaning the f sharp ) vale un mondo . That semitone is worth a world . " I should exceedingly like to quote the passage on Haydn's quartetts , and the comparison between the effect produced by one ...
... effect , he cried out , Quel semitono ( meaning the f sharp ) vale un mondo . That semitone is worth a world . " I should exceedingly like to quote the passage on Haydn's quartetts , and the comparison between the effect produced by one ...
Términos y frases comunes
admiration Albert Durer Allston Ambla artist Astor House Bach beauty Beethoven better brother Brown called character Charles Wesley charm child church clavichord composer deep delight drama excellent expression eyes faith Farinelli feeling felt flower force fugue genius give grace hand Handel happy harmony harpsichord Haydn hear heart heaven honour hope human idea instrument intellectual J. S. Bach John Sebastian John Wesley less light literature lives look LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN means melody mind Mozart nature never noble Paracelsus passage perfect picture Pippa Passes play pleasure poems poet poetic poetry present Prince reverence rich Schindler seems Senesino shows singing song soul speak spirit Swedenborg SWEDENBORGIANISM sweetness sympathy taste tears tender thee things thought tion true truth verse Wesley whole wish Witchcraft woman words write
Pasajes populares
Página 40 - For calling up that spot of joy. She had A heart — how shall I say? — too soon made glad, Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er She looked on, and her looks went everywhere. Sir, 'twas all one!
Página 40 - In speech (which I have not) to make your will Quite clear to such an one, and say, "Just this "Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, "Or there exceed the mark...
Página 39 - Fra Pandolf" by design: for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I...
Página 39 - That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra' Pandolf s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will't please you sit and look at her? I said "Fra
Página 77 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means; and there will stand On honorable terms, or else retire, And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim...
Página 40 - Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse, — E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose Never to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together.
Página 78 - Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim ; And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait For wealth, or honours, or for worldly state ; Whom they must follow ; on whose head must fall, Like showers of manna, if they come at all...
Página 157 - Everywhere I see around me rise the wondrous world of Art : Fountains wrought with richest sculpture standing in the common mart; And above cathedral doorways saints and bishops carved in stone, By a former age commissioned as apostles to our own. In the church of sainted Sebald sleeps enshrined his holy dust...
Página 154 - From the cool cisterns of the midnight air My spirit drank repose; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there,— From those deep cisterns flows.
Página 158 - Durer, the Evangelist of Art; Hence in silence and -in sorrow, toiling still with busy hand, Like an emigrant he wandered, seeking for the Better Land. Emigravit is the inscription on the tomb-stone where he lies ; Dead he is not, but departed, for the Artist never dies.