The Psyche, a magazine of belles lettres, ed. by the author of 'The czar'., Vydání 3Edward Smallwood 1840 |
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Strana 210 - I could lay my hand on for fourpence, which now costeth twelvepence? a good capon for threepence or fourpence; a chicken for a penny; a hen for twopence, which now costeth me double and triple the money ? It is likewise in greater ware, as in beef and mutton. I have seen a cap for thirteenpence as good as I can now get for two shillings and sixpence. Of...
Strana 233 - Nothing of the same kind that wood-engraving has produced since the time of Bewick can for a moment bear a comparison with these cuts. They are not to be equalled till a designer and engraver shall arise possessed of Bewick's knowledge of nature, and endowed with his happy talent of expressing it.
Strana 233 - ... picturesque beauty. No mere facsimile engraver of a drawing ready made to his hand should venture to speak lightly of Bewick's talents until he has both drawn and engraved a cut which may justly challenge a comparison with the Kyloe Ox, the Yellow-hammer, the Partridge, the Woodcock, or the Tame Duck.
Strana 248 - ... Hunter should be her niece, since she could not be her daughter. This secondary intrigue went on delightfully in our heroine's imagination, without interfering with the main business of her own marriage. The day, the long-expected day, that was to crown all her hopes, at length arrived. CHAPTER XVI. " On peut, etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais pas plus fin que tous les autres.
Strana 279 - It is certainly worthy of remark, that these simple Arafuras, without hope of reward, or fear of punishment after death, live in such peace and brotherly love with one another ; and that they recognize, the right of property, in the fullest sense of the word, without there being any authority among them than the decisions of their elders, according to the customs of their forefathers, which are held in the highest regard.
Strana 278 - Of the immortality of the soul they have not the least conception. To all my enquiries on this subject they answered, ' No Arafura has ever returned to us after death, therefore we know nothing of a future state, and this is the first time we have heard of it.
Strana 233 - ... by himself, than has been produced by one of our best wood-engravers when working from drawings made by a professional designer, but who knows nothing of birds, of their habits, or the places which they frequent, and has not the slightest feeling for natural incident a1.d picturesque beauty.
Strana 279 - Social Life in Germany, Illustrated in the Acted Dramas of . . . the Princess Amelia of Saxony (1840).
Strana 188 - Carriage to and from the Library, Postage, &c. to be defrayed by the Subscriber.
Strana 232 - Poems, by Goldsmith and Parnell." figures. Caxton's second edition of the " Game and Playe of the Chesse," supposed to have been published in 1476, is the first English printed book that contains woodcuts. The cuts are representations of the various pieces in the game. In the beginning of the sixteenth century, wood engraving, in the hands and under the direction of Albrecht Dürer, made a marvellous stride in advance. The simple lines and...