The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9George Allen, 1887 - 270 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 57 - He giveth snow like wool : He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels : Who can stand before his cold? He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: He causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
الصفحة 26 - This is what England must either do, or perish: she must found colonies as fast and as far as she is able, formed of her most energetic and worthiest men; seizing every piece of fruitful waste ground she can set her foot on, and there teaching these her colonists that their chief virtue is to be fidelity to their country, and that their first aim is to be to advance the power of England by land and sea...
الصفحة 195 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry, her clothing is silk and purple.
الصفحة 36 - Your hands have worked well : is your courage spent In handwork only ? Have you nothing best, Which generous souls may perfect and present, And He shall thank the givers for ? no light Of teaching, liberal nations, for the poor Who sit in darkness when it is not night ? No cure for wicked children ? Christ — no cure ! No help for women sobbing out of sight Because men made the laws...
الصفحة 68 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
الصفحة 37 - No remedy, my England, for such woes ? No outlet, Austria, for the scourged and bound, No entrance for the exiled ? no repose, Russia, for knouted Poles worked underground, And gentle ladies bleached among the snows ? No mercy for the slave, America ? No hope for Rome, free France, chivalric France?
الصفحة 131 - It may be proved with much certainty, that God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work. It is written, "in the sweat of thy brow...
الصفحة 22 - But if either our work, or our enquiries, are to be indeed successful in their own field, they must be connected with others of a sterner character. Now listen to me, if I have in these past details lost or burdened your attention ; for this is what I have chiefly to say to you. The art of any country is the exponent of its social and political virtues.
الصفحة 33 - THE HIGHEST THING THAT ART CAN DO IS TO SET BEFORE YOU THE TRUE IMAGE OF THE PRESENCE OF A NOBLE HUMAN BEING. IT HAS NEVER DONE MORE THAN THIS, AND IT OUGHT NOT TO DO LESS.