Dyce Collection: A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings, and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by the Reverend Alexander Dyce

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Page 95 - Tis safety to be near thee sure, and thus To clasp perfection !" From his void embrace, Mysterious heaven ! that moment, to the ground, A blacken'd corse, was struck the beauteous maid.
Page 260 - and Death of John Earl of Rochester," a work which cannot be recommended in more appropriate terms than those of Dr.
Page 278 - Sleep no more ! Macbeth doth murder sleep ! " — the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ; — Lady M.
Page 232 - I'd divide, And burn in many places ; on the topmast, The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet, and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors O...
Page 94 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Page 232 - Stay, passenger, why dost thou go so fast, Read, if thou canst, whom envious death hath...
Page 118 - I mean, sir, that this deed by accident falling into this gentleman's hands, his generous concern for our family discovered it to me ; and that, in concert, we procured that other to be drawn exactly like it ; which, in your impatience to execute, passed unsuspected for the original. Their only difference is, that wherever here you read the doctor's name, there you'll find my brother's.
Page 290 - DESCRIPTION of the CHAPEL of the ANNUNZIATA DELL' ARENA, or, GIOTTO'S CHAPEL, in PADUA.

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