The Connoisseur, Volume 17Hearst Corporation, 1907 |
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Page 255 - The common remark as to the utility of reading history being made ; — JOHNSON : ' We must consider how very little history there is ; I mean real authentic history. That certain kings reigned, and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true ; but all the colouring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture.
Page 164 - Why, Sir, did you go to Mrs. Abington's benefit? Did you see?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir." "Did you hear?
Page 162 - I do impartial justice to your merit, and fairly allow it not only equal to that of any actress I have seen, but believe the present age will not be in the wrong, if they hereafter prefer it to those they may live to see.
Page 183 - Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful. Beauty is God's hand-writing — a way-side sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him, the fountain of all loveliness, and drink it in, simply and earnestly, with all your eyes; it is a charmed draught, a cup of blessing.
Page 105 - Chinese : it has the head of a camel, the horns of a deer, eyes of a rabbit, ears of a cow, neck of a snake, belly of a frog, scales of a carp, claws of a hawk, and palm of a tiger.
Page 218 - The story I pitched upon, was a young and virtuous married lady, who, by playing at cards with an officer, loses her money, watch, and jewels ; the moment when he offers them back in return for her honour, and she is wavering at his suit, was my point of time.
Page 252 - Cardinal Langton and the Barons swore at St. Edmund's altar that they would obtain from King John the ratification of Magna Charta. " Where the rude buttress totters to its fall, And ivy mantles o'er the crumbling wall ; Where e'en the skilful eye can scarcely trace The once high altar's lonely resting place.
Page 56 - Round corners. 5$. net. Blake (William). ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JOB. With a General Introduction by LAURENCE BINYON. illustrated. Quarto. zu. net. Bloemfonteln (Bishop of).
Page 242 - Chardin cites a green porcelain, which seems to be the same. He writes : " Everything at the king's is of massive gold or porcelain. There is a kind of green porcelain so precious that one dish alone is worth four hundred crowns. They say this porcelain detects poison by changing colour, but that is a fable : its price arises from its beauty and the delicacy of the material, which renders it transparent, although above two crowns in thickness.