Landscape Painting and Modern Dutch ArtistsBaker & Taylor Company, 1906 - 229 páginas |
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... century in Italy . In the period of their great prosperity the Greeks were the most intellectual and art - loving nation the world has ever seen . They had an intense love for the beautiful in nature and for its artistic rendering in ...
... century in Italy . In the period of their great prosperity the Greeks were the most intellectual and art - loving nation the world has ever seen . They had an intense love for the beautiful in nature and for its artistic rendering in ...
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... century A.D. In consequence of the conquests of Italy , Germany , and Gaul by the Goths , the lan- guage of each section of Europe grew corrupt ; each country had a local speech of its own , and the Latin soon became a dead language ...
... century A.D. In consequence of the conquests of Italy , Germany , and Gaul by the Goths , the lan- guage of each section of Europe grew corrupt ; each country had a local speech of its own , and the Latin soon became a dead language ...
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... century it was treated as a subordinate matter . It was used mainly as an accessory of figure painting , for which it made a con- venient background . But it was mostly con- ventional work , and very seldom was there any attempt to ...
... century it was treated as a subordinate matter . It was used mainly as an accessory of figure painting , for which it made a con- venient background . But it was mostly con- ventional work , and very seldom was there any attempt to ...
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... century the impressionists appeared in France . They had a new theory of placing brilliant colours . pure on the canvas and not first mixed on the palette . This gave a very bright and beauti- ful quality of vibrating air , and many of ...
... century the impressionists appeared in France . They had a new theory of placing brilliant colours . pure on the canvas and not first mixed on the palette . This gave a very bright and beauti- ful quality of vibrating air , and many of ...
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... centuries , but be- neath this living voice which comes vibrating to us we distinguish a murmur and as it were a vast low sound , the great infinite and varied voice of the people chanting in unison with them . " not bear out Whistler's ...
... centuries , but be- neath this living voice which comes vibrating to us we distinguish a murmur and as it were a vast low sound , the great infinite and varied voice of the people chanting in unison with them . " not bear out Whistler's ...
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Página 89 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth : but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity; Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused. Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns. And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man...
Página 87 - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life whose fountains are within.
Página 82 - Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires ; Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Página 104 - The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits: — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Página 106 - But man dieth, and wasteth away : Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he ? As the waters fail from the sea, And the flood decayeth and drieth up : So man lieth down, and riseth not. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be raised out of their sleep.
Página 87 - O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live; Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth...
Página 180 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God...
Página 82 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 106 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Página 91 - Must we but blush?— Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no;— the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, "Let one living head, But one, arise,— we come, we come!