The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of AgogosOtis, Broaders, & Company, 1844 - 180 էջ |
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Charles William Day. money matters , a consummate ass ; that a poet , painter , or , indeed , a professional or literary man of any description beyond the compiler of a " ready reckoner , " must , in worldly affairs , possess the ...
Charles William Day. money matters , a consummate ass ; that a poet , painter , or , indeed , a professional or literary man of any description beyond the compiler of a " ready reckoner , " must , in worldly affairs , possess the ...
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... painter . A " sover- eign ruler " often is — an idiot ; whilst the wit of a Chesterfield is sometimes hidden in the dingy draperies of a chimney - sweep . Nay , how often does the merest accident reveal to the man himself powers of ...
... painter . A " sover- eign ruler " often is — an idiot ; whilst the wit of a Chesterfield is sometimes hidden in the dingy draperies of a chimney - sweep . Nay , how often does the merest accident reveal to the man himself powers of ...
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... painter , but in the incapacity of the mis- erable instructor to fit his mean rules on the comprehensive mind of the " English Titian . " The severity of a shallow judgment has like- wise something to do with the estimation in which a ...
... painter , but in the incapacity of the mis- erable instructor to fit his mean rules on the comprehensive mind of the " English Titian . " The severity of a shallow judgment has like- wise something to do with the estimation in which a ...
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... painters , on which a few words may be useful in correcting a depraved taste . The characteristics of the Turner school are , colour exaggerated , or rather rainbow hues supplied , to a degree which is a libel on one's eyes ; mountains ...
... painters , on which a few words may be useful in correcting a depraved taste . The characteristics of the Turner school are , colour exaggerated , or rather rainbow hues supplied , to a degree which is a libel on one's eyes ; mountains ...
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... " Cit- ies of Ancient Greece , " where fancy is au- thorized to revel uncontrolled , the painter has a right to make his machinery as Olympian , or as much like the seventh heaven , as his abili- 140 MAXIMS , EXPERIENCES , AND.
... " Cit- ies of Ancient Greece , " where fancy is au- thorized to revel uncontrolled , the painter has a right to make his machinery as Olympian , or as much like the seventh heaven , as his abili- 140 MAXIMS , EXPERIENCES , AND.
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Էջ 3 - English, it will doubtless, as human nature is pretty much the same the world over, be found to contain much that is useful or suggestive to the new society into which the author has entered. " Those whom it touches not,
Էջ 40 - ... wound — to the self-love — of proud, inflated people ; but you must reckon on their haired, as they will never forgive you. VARIETIES. They — never/hi/, who di...
Էջ 70 - had his little hat on," no tailor, pugnacious as tailors naturally are, was more belligerent than he was. Over his ale he first became argumentative, then didactic, and, finally, abusive. He •was wont to irritate his companions in the tap of the little public-house by treading on the tender part which every man has in his character. He would tax Giles with being aporcher, — Robin with being caught in the fact of monopolizing all the eggs for his own use. Bob was accused of selling his master's...
Էջ 80 - ... tread on a scorpion instead of a worm, and receive a sting where they only anticipated the pleasure of...
Էջ 168 - The influence of example is a terrible responsibility on the shoulders of every individual. Each single drunkard, gambler, or