Life of William Etty, R.A.D. Bogue, 1855 - 344 էջ |
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Abbey Acad Academy Adam and Eve admiration ancient Antiquities Artist Bather beautiful Bodley breath Brit Brother Walter Buckingham Street Cathedral Church Colls Colour commenced cough Cupid Cupid and Psyche dear death delight Etty's hand execution Exhibition eyes familiar fancy favour favourite feeling figure finished Fleur de Lis flowers Fresco genius George Hudson Givendale glorious golden Graces guineas happy head heart Hero and Leander honour hope Inst Joan of Arc kind labours Lady Landscape less letter London look Maclise mind Minster morning Nature never Niece night noble Nude Nymph once painted Painter peace Picture Pluto poetic Portrait Psyche purchased racter scene School of Design season seen sentiment Sirens Sketch Students Study sunshine sweet tells things thought tion Titian Venus Wethered whereof William Etty writing York York Minster Yorkshire
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Էջ 51 - Or ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were ; And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before ; And all their friends and native home forget, To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.
Էջ 131 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Էջ 339 - For the greatness of thy mercy reacheth unto the heavens : and thy truth unto the clouds. 12 Set up thyself, O God, above the heavens : and thy glory above all the earth.
Էջ 113 - the Lantern Tower, and had led us so often, 'willingly to Prayer, Morning and Evening, (whose ' sound I recollect from a child) ; that noble and ' sonorous Clock that so often has given warning of ' the rapid flow of the tide of Time to the ocean of 'Eternity : — all these things...
Էջ 268 - promulgation of which ' touching truths to the heathen abroad' his fellowcitizens ' open their purses so liberally :' this much he says, — and more, ' supposing he may be culpable.' But 'were I to give my own opinion of the matter/ ' rashly/ continues he, ' I feel I should be safe, were I * to risk my existence on the honour and honesty of ' George Hudson. That he may not at all times have { had that amenity which wins, I am willing to allow. * He was made for carrying this mighty Change. * *...
Էջ 72 - Oh, that I could have seen my country,' he will exclaim, in his letters to his niece, ' when her brows were crowned with gems, like what our abbeys, our cathedrals, and churches once were ! When schism had not split the Christian world into fighting and disputing fanatics ; 'when the dignity of Christ's holy temple and of His worship were thought improved by making the fine arts handmaids thereto ; and the finest efforts of the soul of man were made subservient to His glory.
Էջ 216 - Proud to command such a sum, and to possess a " house of his own," he never regretted the bargain. Fond as a child, says Mr. Gilchrist, " of his new possession, he was more constant to his liking. The more he sees of his mansion, — 'open, quiet, with a pleasant bit of garden,' <fcc., the ' more he likes it.' "** Tastes and temperaments vary, however; and some prefer — at least practically, whatever they may say about it — to have no certain dwelling-place they can call their own, but to shift...
Էջ 338 - Weep for thy fault—in heart—in mind degraded: Weep, if thy tears can wash away the stain. Call back the vows, that once to heaven were plighted, Vows full of love, of innocence and truth. Call back the scenes in which thy soul delighted: Call back the dream that blest thy early youth. Flow silver stream...
Էջ 187 - edges of the lights with a free hand into the ' shadow. Next night, he would repeat the process ' to still further progress : and so on to completion.