 As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely thro' all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints him that his face, The shape and colour of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 4151861Full view - About this book
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1893 - 340 pages
...OF CONF BOWING, ONE TIME!" "THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE." Old Parliamentary Pictor soliloquiseth : — ' At when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely thro' all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and to paintt him that hit face, The thape and colour of a mind and life, Lives for hit children, ever... | |
 | 1861 - 448 pages
...have, of late years, generally commanded. For, As when a painter poring on a face Divinely, through all hindrance, finds the man Behind it, and so paints...life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest — Even so will noble men and deeds ' speak in the silence,' and haunt the memory of any reader... | |
 | 1871 - 878 pages
...clearly exhibits Mr. Tennyson's idea of art : " As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely through all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints...and life, Lives for his children, ever at its best." Among these beauties must be mentioned the three lyrics in the three first idylls — lyrics written,... | |
 | 1871 - 808 pages
...clearly exhibits Mr. Tennyson's idea of art : " As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely through all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints him that his face, The shape and color of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at its best." Among these beauties must be mentioned... | |
 | 1870 - 846 pages
...a face, Divinely through all hindrance find the nun Behind it, and so paiut him that his fivce, Tbe shape and colour of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest." And in tbe gift of embodiment Holbein is unsurpassed. Perhaps the judgment on his own art,... | |
 | 1881 - 704 pages
...Hall, near Chepatow. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. — " Л painter poring on a fnce Divinely, through all hindrance, finds the man Behind it, and so paints him that his face Lives for hie children ever at its best And fullest." E. WAIFOBD. " Dear to the Lowland reaper, And... | |
 | 1859 - 316 pages
...reminds one forcibly of Vandyke's Charles I. " As when a painter poring on a face Divinely through all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints...his face, The shape and colour of a mind and life, Live for his children, ever at its best And fullest, so the face before her lived." • Here is another... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 304 pages
...thought That all was nature, all, perchance, for her. And all night long his face before her lived, As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely thro'...life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest ; so the face before her lived, Dark-splendid, speaking in the silence, full Of noble things,... | |
 | 1859 - 806 pages
...the spirit in which sue beholds him, while those floods And all night long his face before her lived, As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely thro'...life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest ; so the face before her lived, Dark- splendid, speaking in the silence, full Of noble things,... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1859 - 610 pages
...And all night long his face before her lived, As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely through all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints...life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest ; so the face before her lived. Dark-splendid, speaking in the silène«, full, Of noble thoughts,... | |
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