The artists of America: a series of biographical sketchesBaker, 1846 - 257 pàgines |
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Academy admiration Allston American Angels Artist bas relief Battle of Princeton beautiful Benjamin West Boston Boston Athenæum bust CALEB LYON canvas CATALOGUE OF BOOKS character Christ Christian Church color copy Court of Death Crawford delight drawing early England engravings Europe executed exhibition fame father feel figures finished Gallery gave genius gentleman gifted give H. H. Stevens hand head HENRY INMAN honor Inman Italy John John Inman JOHN TRUMBULL King Lady landscape letter living London look Lord Lord Cornwallis marble master merit mind never New-York noble Oil Miniatures painted painter pencil Philadelphia picture Portrait Puritans received REMBRANDT PEALE returned Rome says Dunlap scene sculptors seemed seen sketch speak spirit Stuart taste thing Thorvaldsen thought tion Titian Trumbull Veaux Washington Washington Allston West West's young youth
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Pàgina 55 - Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds — His path was rugged and sore, Through tangled juniper beds of reeds, Through many a fen, where the serpent feeds, And man never trod before.
Pàgina 52 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : — how profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Pàgina 3 - THE PEEP OF DAY, Or a Series of the earliest Religious instruction, the Infant Mind is capable of receiving, with verses illustrative of the subjects, 1 vol. 18mo, with engravings. $0 50. LINE UPON LINE, By the Author of " Peep of Day,
Pàgina 20 - And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men ; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha : and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha. he revived, and stood up on his feet.
Pàgina 231 - You will be told of some wintry chill, some casual indisposition, that laid her low; — but no one knows of the mental malady which previously sapped her strength, and made her so easy a prey to the spoiler. She is like some tender tree, the pride and beauty of the grove; graceful in its form, bright in its foliage, but with the worm preying at its heart. We find it suddenly withering, when it should be most fresh and luxuriant. We see it drooping its branches to the earth, and shedding leaf by...
Pàgina 14 - Pastor, by Gardiner Spring, DD, Pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, in the city of New York. The following notice of Spring's Fragments is extracted from the New York Commercial Advertiser. The first piece, entitled the " Church in the Wilderness," is one of the most beautiful sketches in our language.
Pàgina 41 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll from whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes — it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip, "I have not slept here all night.
Pàgina 2 - ... of the last generation. All her writings are pervaded by justness and purity of sentiment, and the highest reverence for morality and religion; and may safely be commended as of the highest interest and value to every family...
Pàgina 8 - ... the relations of the child, the sister, the friend, the wife, the mother, the teacher and the disciple of Jesus : and then to group the whole, and contemplate the triumphs of faith over natural affection, and the heart's corruptions, and the power of death itself; cannot...
Pàgina 132 - In a word, GILBERT STUART was, in its widest sense, a philosopher in his art : he thoroughly understood its principles, as his works bear witness, whether as to the harmony of colors or of lines, or of light and shadow — showing that exquisite sense of a whole, which only a man of genius can realize and embody.