Exhibition of Works by ..., Volumen28,Parte1897

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Wm. Clowes and Sons, 1897
 

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Página 18 - Will lap me round forever, not to pass Out of its light, though darkness lie beyond : Hold me but safe again within the bond Of one immortal look ! All woe that was, Forgotten, and all terror that may be, Defied, — no past is mine, no future : look at me ! YOUTH AND ART.
Página 19 - Cimabue's celebrated Madonna is carried in procession through the streets of Florence ; in front of the Madonna, and crowned with laurels, walks Cimabue himself with his pupil Giotto ; behind it, Arnolfo di Lapo. Gaddo Gaddi, Andrea Tafi, Nicola I'isano, Bufalmaceo, and Simone Memmi ; in the corner Dante.
Página 8 - I know, too, a great Kaunian painter, strong As Herakles, though rosy with a robe Of grace that softens down the sinewy strength : And he has made a picture of it all. There lies Alkestis dead, beneath the sun, She longed to look her last upon, beside The sea, which somehow tempts the life in us To come trip over its white waste of waves, And try escape from earth, and fleet as free.
Página 18 - BUT give them me, the mouth, the eyes, the brow! Let them once more absorb me! One look now Will lap me round for ever, not to pass Out of its light, though darkness lie beyond: Hold me but safe again within the bond Of one immortal look! All woe that was, Forgotten, and all terror that may be, Defied, — no past is mine, no future: look at me!
Página 12 - (one of the Magi from the terrace of his house stands looking at the star in the East; the lower part of the picture indicates a revel which he may be supposed to have just left) ; ' Michael Angelo nursing his dying servant,' ' Helen of Troy,' and
Página 18 - Some standing by, Marking thy tears fall, shall say, ' This is she, The wife of that same Hector who fought best Of all the Trojans, when all fought for Troy.
Página 52 - Empire, enthroned in the centre, rests her right hand on the sword of Justice, and holds in her left the symbol of victorious rule. At her feet, on one side, Commerce proffers wealth ; on the other, a winged figure holds emblems of Electricity and Steam-power. Flanking the throne to the right of the spectator are Agriculture and Industry ; on the opposite side, Science, Literature, and the Arts. Above, interlocking wreaths, held by winged genii representing respectively the years 1837 and 1887, inclose...
Página 22 - represents " a triumphal procession held every ninth year at Thebes, in honour of Apollo, and to commemorate a victory of the Thebans over the ^Eoliaus of Arne. Its name was derived from the laurel branches carried by those who took part in the festival, the laurel, or more properly the bay, being sacred to Apollo.
Página 10 - Oh! that I had wings like a dove, for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Página 36 - Then bending gently back her head, With that sweet mouth so rosy red, Upon his eyes she dropped a kiss, Intoxicating him with bliss.

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