The Althorp Picture Gallery: And Other Poetical SketchesBlackwood, 1836 - 163 pages |
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... spirits here ! What mantling cheeks ! —as if fond lovers ' vows Stole in soft whispers o'er each lady's ear . What tones , as from the dead , are gently murmuring near ! II . What forms of Manhood's pride , of Beauty's.
... spirits here ! What mantling cheeks ! —as if fond lovers ' vows Stole in soft whispers o'er each lady's ear . What tones , as from the dead , are gently murmuring near ! II . What forms of Manhood's pride , of Beauty's.
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And Other Poetical Sketches Mary J. Jourdan. II . What forms of Manhood's pride , of Beauty's grace ! What Sidneys , Russells , Spencers , Digbys , blaze ! How proudly conscious looks each pictured face Of the rapt homage in our silent ...
And Other Poetical Sketches Mary J. Jourdan. II . What forms of Manhood's pride , of Beauty's grace ! What Sidneys , Russells , Spencers , Digbys , blaze ! How proudly conscious looks each pictured face Of the rapt homage in our silent ...
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... pride ! Ah ! sure Love sleeps amid her clustering hair , Yet could not save her from Misfortune's tide ; In Poverty's cold hut perforce both did abide . VIII . Yet they were born in palaced chambers proud 4 THE ALTHORP PICTURE GALLERY .
... pride ! Ah ! sure Love sleeps amid her clustering hair , Yet could not save her from Misfortune's tide ; In Poverty's cold hut perforce both did abide . VIII . Yet they were born in palaced chambers proud 4 THE ALTHORP PICTURE GALLERY .
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... buoyant glee — the young heart's bounding pride ! A chastened calm is slumbering on her brow , And her pure thoughts love's fairest wedded joys avow ! X. Oh woe ! how changed , how faded , THE ALTHORP PICTURE GALLERY . 5.
... buoyant glee — the young heart's bounding pride ! A chastened calm is slumbering on her brow , And her pure thoughts love's fairest wedded joys avow ! X. Oh woe ! how changed , how faded , THE ALTHORP PICTURE GALLERY . 5.
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... pride ; And her own warrior - love sprang from her sight , Arrayed for the great cause in which he died ? " Tis but his shade ; - Glory and he sleep side by side ! XI . Turn here ! -could not the bearing of this brow , 4 Could not its ...
... pride ; And her own warrior - love sprang from her sight , Arrayed for the great cause in which he died ? " Tis but his shade ; - Glory and he sleep side by side ! XI . Turn here ! -could not the bearing of this brow , 4 Could not its ...
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ABERDEEN ALTHORP PICTURE GALLERY amid anguish bark beams beauty beneath blooming blue bosom breast breath bright bright eyes brow burning calm Castlemaine Cenotaph cheek cloud cold dark death deep deep calm Diana of Poitiers dost doth drooping Duchess of Marlborough e'er fair fancy fierce flash fled floating flower gaze gently glad glance glow grace grief gush hath heart Henrietta Maria lifeless light lips lone look Lord Sunderland Love's lustre lyre marriage mind mirth mourning musing ne'er Neath o'er Ocean's orbs pale passion pride proud proudly pure quenched rapt rapture rays rich round scenes shade shadowy shines shone sigh slumbering smile soft sorrow soul soul's sparkling spirit stray stream sweet swell tear thee thine thou wert thought Thrills throng throw tones tremblers turn twined voice waves weep wend whilst wild young
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Page 77 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Page 152 - ... arts. The house retains the form described by Evelyn —that of a half H : a slight irregularity is caused by the new gothic room, built by the present earl, to contain part of his magnificent library, which, like the statue in the Castle of Otranto, had grown " too big for what contained it.
Page 143 - And — but for that sad, shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not now ; And but for that chill, changeless brow, Whose touch thrills with mortality, And curdles to the gazer's heart...
Page 149 - Last night, her lord was all that's good and great ; A knave this morning, and his will a cheat. Strange ! by the means defeated of the ends, By spirit...
Page 143 - Her picture at Windsor is the most perfectly beautiful and impressive female portrait I ever saw. How have I longed, when gazing at it, to conjure her out of her frame, and bid her reveal the secret of her mysterious life and death ! — Nearly opposite to the dead Venitia, in strange contrast, hangs her husband, who loved her to madness, or was mad before he married her, in the very prime of life and youth. This picture, by Cornelius Jansen, is as fine as any thing of Vandyke's : the character expresses...
Page 144 - Could Nature then no private woman grace, Whom we might dare to love, with such a face, Such a complexion, and so radiant eyes, Such lovely motion, and such sharp replies?
Page 146 - ... and blooming; the second, far more interesting, was painted about the time of her marriage with the young Earl of Sunderland, or shor.tly after — very sweet and lady-like. I should say that the highbreeding of the face and air was more conspicuous than the beauty; the neck and hands exquisite. Both these are Vandyke's. A third picture represents her about the time of her second marriage : the expression wholly changed — cold, sad, faded, but pretty still: one might fancy her contemplating,...
Page 144 - Davenant styles her, very beautifully, " The richeyed darling of a monarch's breast." Lord Holland, in the description he sent from Paris, dwells on the charm of her eyes, her smile, and her graceful figure, though he admits her to be rather petite; and if the poet and the courtier be distrusted, we have the authority of the puritanic Sir Symond d'Ewes, who allows the influence of her " excellent and sparkling black eyes.