The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].C. Knight, 1834 |
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... performance of the pupil , even in this his commencing essay , greatly exceeded the expectations of his instructor . The doctor then put into his hands another arm , in which all the arteries were injected , and these , as well as the ...
... performance of the pupil , even in this his commencing essay , greatly exceeded the expectations of his instructor . The doctor then put into his hands another arm , in which all the arteries were injected , and these , as well as the ...
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... performances to the notice of the great Titian , and was employed by him to paint the ceilings of the Library of St. Mark . The famous HOGARTH acquired his knowledge of drawing while serving his appren- ticeship to an engraving ...
... performances to the notice of the great Titian , and was employed by him to paint the ceilings of the Library of St. Mark . The famous HOGARTH acquired his knowledge of drawing while serving his appren- ticeship to an engraving ...
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... performance appreciated by the canons his employers , that they not only refused the unfortunate artist the price that had been agreed upon , but paid him five hundred crowns , which was all they would allow , in copper . Correggio was ...
... performance appreciated by the canons his employers , that they not only refused the unfortunate artist the price that had been agreed upon , but paid him five hundred crowns , which was all they would allow , in copper . Correggio was ...
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... performance , he set out for London , leaving his wife and family in the mean time at Derby . He reached the capital without even a letter of introduction , and with scarcely anything except his manuscript in his pocket . He was at this ...
... performance , he set out for London , leaving his wife and family in the mean time at Derby . He reached the capital without even a letter of introduction , and with scarcely anything except his manuscript in his pocket . He was at this ...
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... performance ; and finally , in 1757 , his Miscellaneous Tracts . ' To al these labours are to be added the papers he pub- lished in the Philosophical Transactions , and his contributions to the Ladies ' Diary , of which he was for ...
... performance ; and finally , in 1757 , his Miscellaneous Tracts . ' To al these labours are to be added the papers he pub- lished in the Philosophical Transactions , and his contributions to the Ladies ' Diary , of which he was for ...
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Стр. 83 - That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine...
Стр. 136 - Or if an unexpected call succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need: —He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, Are at his heart; and such fidelity It is his darling passion to approve; More brave for this, that he hath much to love...
Стр. 23 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Стр. 223 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Стр. 238 - I was to continue doing a sheet a day of the folio that one night, when having imposed my forms I thought my day's work over, one of them by accident was broken and two pages reduced to pi, I immediately distributed and composed it over again before I went to bed ; and this industry, visible to our neighbors, began to give us character and credit. Particularly I was told that mention being made of the new printing-office at the merchants...
Стр. 225 - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity.
Стр. 307 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
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