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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850The following interesting sketch of the Drama in the empire of the Czar is translated for the International from the Leipzig Grenzboten. The facts it states are not only...
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850From a sprightly letter from Paris to the Cologne Gazette, we translate for The International the following account of the position of women in the French Republic, together with...
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850"Among the most remarkable writers of romances in England, three women are entitled to be reckoned in the first rank, namely, Miss Jewsbury, Miss Bronte, and Mrs. Gaskell. Miss...
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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etcAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etc.Since the early nineteenth century it has been known that Frances Reynolds, the sister of Sir Joshua, was the author of an essay on taste, which she had...
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Since CézanneSince Cézanne Most of these Essays appeared in THE NEW REPUBLIC and THE ATHENAEUM: some, however, are reprinted from THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE, THE NEW STATESMAN, and ART AND DECORATION. I take this opportunity of thanking the editors of all. With anyone who concludes that...
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Promenades of an ImpressionistPromenades of an ImpressionistAfter prolonged study of the art shown at the Paris Autumn Salon you ask yourself: This whirlpool of jostling ambitions, crazy colours, still crazier drawing and compositionwhither does it tend? Is there any strain of tendency, any central current to be...
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850The history of smuggling in all countries abounds in curiosities of which but few ever reach the eye of the public, the parties generally preferring to keep their adventures...
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The Collectors: Being Cases mostly under the 9th and 10th CommandmentsThe Collectors: Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth CommandmentsComprising a Ballade, wherein the Wrongfulness of Art Collecting is conceded, and as well Certain Stories: Campbell Corot, which recounts the career of an able and candid Picture Forger. The del Puente Giorgione, which...
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850The revolutions of society are almost as sure if not as regular as those of the planets. The inventions of a generation weary after a while, but they are...
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science — Volume 1, No. 3, July 15, 1850International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science — Volume 1, No. 3, July 15, 1850George Sand is about to publish a book called "Memoirs of my Life," which is looked for with great expectations by both the admirers of her genius and the...
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850The LORGNETTE, the cleverest book of its kind (we were about to write, since the days of Addison, but to avoid possible disagreement say)since IRVING and PAULDING gave us...
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The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and StormThe Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm My days and strength have lately been much broken; and I never more felt the insufficiency of both than in preparing for the press the following desultory memoranda...
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Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine ArtsLegends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine ArtsThrough all the most beautiful and precious productions of human genius and human skill which the middle ages and the renaissance have bequeathed to us, we trace, more or less developed, more or less apparent,...
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Renaissance in Italy, Volume 3 (of 7)Renaissance in Italy, Volume 3 (of 7) - The Fine ArtsThis third volume of my book on the "Renaissance in Italy" does not pretend to retrace the history of the Italian arts, but rather to define their relation to the main movement of Renaissance...
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The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3As soon as he returned victorious from the temptation in the wilderness, Jesus entered on the work of his public ministry. We find him, at once, preaching to the people, healing the sick, and doing...
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Lectures on ArtLectures on ArtUpon the death of Mr. Allston, it was determined, by those who had charge of his papers, to prepare his biography and correspondence, and publish them with his writings in prose and verse; a work which would have occupied two volumes of...
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L'archeologie egyptienneL'archéologie égyptienne Title: L'archologie gyptienne Author: G. Maspero Release Date: January 1, 2004 [EBook #10841] Language: French Credits: Produced by Robert Connal, Renald Levesque and PG Distributed Proofreaders. This file was produced from images generously made available by gallica (Bibliotheque nationale de France) at...
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A Wanderer in FlorenceA Wanderer in FlorenceA sentence from a "Synthetical Guidebook" which is circulated in the Florentine hotels will express what I want to say, at the threshold of this volume, much better than could unaided words of mine. It runs thus: "The natural kindness, the...
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Earthwork out of Tuscany: Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice HewlettEarthwork out of Tuscany: Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett"For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone; and as wine mingled with water is pleasant and delighteth the taste: even so speech, finely framed, delighteth the ears of them that...
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Val d'ArnoVal d'Arno - Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art Directly Antecedent to the Florentine Year of Victories; Given Before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1873 1. On this day, of this month, the 20th of October, six hundred and twenty-three years ago,...
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