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... Volume Memorials of Thomas Hood . A New Revelation Lucile ..... Ary Scheffer A Man's Heart Some Recent Boys ' Books Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World . The Seven Sisters of Sleep Eminent Living Artists - Mr . Holman Hunt Small ...
... Volume Memorials of Thomas Hood . A New Revelation Lucile ..... Ary Scheffer A Man's Heart Some Recent Boys ' Books Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World . The Seven Sisters of Sleep Eminent Living Artists - Mr . Holman Hunt Small ...
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... volume of the dence , " which fills the second volume . A few extracts will " Autobiography , " and enter largely into the " Correspon- show the freshness and point of these reminiscences . Apropos of Rogers : - -- " Those who know ...
... volume of the dence , " which fills the second volume . A few extracts will " Autobiography , " and enter largely into the " Correspon- show the freshness and point of these reminiscences . Apropos of Rogers : - -- " Those who know ...
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... volume is filled with Leslie's correspondence . The concluding letter gives a last sunny glimpse of the painter : - " Such an image of the man as best fits his life and tastes ; surrounded by his family , rambling in the chestnut shades ...
... volume is filled with Leslie's correspondence . The concluding letter gives a last sunny glimpse of the painter : - " Such an image of the man as best fits his life and tastes ; surrounded by his family , rambling in the chestnut shades ...
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... VOLUME . * IN 1843 appeared the first volume of " Modern Painters : their Superiority in the Art of Landscape Painting to all the Ancient Masters . By a Graduate of Oxford . ' A further volume was issued three years afterwards , to ...
... VOLUME . * IN 1843 appeared the first volume of " Modern Painters : their Superiority in the Art of Landscape Painting to all the Ancient Masters . By a Graduate of Oxford . ' A further volume was issued three years afterwards , to ...
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... volume a dis- position to judge of his art merits , especially in relation to his faculty of imitation , with greater kindness and respect than in the earlier volumes . It is not to be marvelled at that the term " Ruskinism " should be ...
... volume a dis- position to judge of his art merits , especially in relation to his faculty of imitation , with greater kindness and respect than in the earlier volumes . It is not to be marvelled at that the term " Ruskinism " should be ...
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Страница 1 - I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
Страница 7 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Страница 6 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by Reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...
Страница 7 - Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide.
Страница 14 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Страница 29 - Seeva laid wait for me. I came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris : I had done a deed, they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at.
Страница 7 - It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.
Страница 29 - Deeper than ever plummet sounded," I lay inactive. Then, like a chorus, the passion deepened. Some greater interest was at stake ; some mightier cause than ever yet the sword had pleaded, or trumpet had proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms ; hurryings to and fro ; trepidations of innumerable fugitives.
Страница 29 - ... heartbreaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells! and, with a sigh such as the caves of hell sighed when the incestuous mother uttered the abhorred name of Death, the sound was reverberated — everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated — everlasting farewells! And I awoke in struggles, and cried aloud, "I will sleep no more!
Страница 11 - Their Superiority in the ART of LANDSCAPE PAINTING to all the Ancient Masters, proved by examples of the True, the Beautiful, and the Intellectual, from the Works of Modern Artists, especially from those of JM Turner, Esq., RA By a GRADUATE of OXFORD.