The Prospects of Art in the United States: An Address Before the Artists' Fund Society of Philadelphia, at the Opening of Their Exhibition, May, 1840, Volume 299Artists' society, 1840 - 45 pages |
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... heart Sir Joshua Reynolds ' lectures , and prepared themselves to exclaim , as the doors of the Sistine opened before them , " Michel piu che mortel ! Angel divino ! " but if any home - returned tourists , garrulous of foreign wonders ...
... heart Sir Joshua Reynolds ' lectures , and prepared themselves to exclaim , as the doors of the Sistine opened before them , " Michel piu che mortel ! Angel divino ! " but if any home - returned tourists , garrulous of foreign wonders ...
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... heart enough , to love their own land above all others . These men will pass through your exhibitions , " naso adunco , " full of scraps from foreign languages , and abusing , by misuse , the terms of Art , give you to un- derstand that ...
... heart enough , to love their own land above all others . These men will pass through your exhibitions , " naso adunco , " full of scraps from foreign languages , and abusing , by misuse , the terms of Art , give you to un- derstand that ...
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... heart of the owner . Rich furniture , to say nothing of the bad taste of crowding it into such petty apartments , is little better than a selfish and rude ostentation of wealth , to excite the envy of guests ; and it is not in human ...
... heart of the owner . Rich furniture , to say nothing of the bad taste of crowding it into such petty apartments , is little better than a selfish and rude ostentation of wealth , to excite the envy of guests ; and it is not in human ...
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... heart , and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost nor prize , But where his rude hut , by the Danube lay , There were his young barbarians all at play— There was their Dacian mother - he , their sire 32.
... heart , and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost nor prize , But where his rude hut , by the Danube lay , There were his young barbarians all at play— There was their Dacian mother - he , their sire 32.
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... by the grace of God , made him " first in war , first in peace , first in the hearts of his countrymen ; " Patrick Henry , denouncing the tyranny of Britain , in the Virginia council house ; the patriot - mother arming her 36.
... by the grace of God , made him " first in war , first in peace , first in the hearts of his countrymen ; " Patrick Henry , denouncing the tyranny of Britain , in the Virginia council house ; the patriot - mother arming her 36.
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