A tour in Italy and Sicily1828 |
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Pagina 195 - was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him,
Pagina 195 - And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him and saying, Lord, have mercy upon my son ; for he is a lunatic and sore vexed,
Pagina 200 - had more taste and fancy, Michel Angelo more genius and imagination. The one excelled in beauty, the other in energy. Michel Angelo has more of the poetical inspiration, his people are a superior order of beings ; there is nothing about them
Pagina 180 - He was both the first and the greatest master of the art. By a few strokes he knew how to mark the general image and character of whatever object he attempted, and produced by this alone a truer representation than
Pagina 312 - was building all round ; the mortar, just dashed against the side of the wall, was but half spread out; you saw the long sliding stroke of the trowel about to return and obliterate its own track;—but it never did return: the hand of the workman was suddenly arrested; and after the lapse of
Pagina 193 - where the objects are scattered and divided into many equal parts, the eye is perplexed and fatigued from not knowing where to rest, where to find the principal action, or which is the principal figure; for
Pagina 193 - is the principal figure; for when all are making equal pretensions to notice, all are in equal danger of neglect. The expression which is used very often on these occasions is, that the piece wants repose.
Pagina 82 - Mount Ida naked strove— Stood to entertain her guest from Heaven; no veil She needed, virtue proof, no thought infirm Alter'd her cheek.
Pagina 191 - suffrage of the rest of mankind. We dispute and wrangle for ever; we endeavour to get men to come to us when we do not go to them*.
Pagina 312 - the forum opposite to the Temple of Jupiter. A new altar of white marble, exquisitely beautiful, and apparently just out of the hands of the sculptor, had been erected there ; an