Exhibition of the Royal AcademyThe Academy, 1860 |
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Ansdell Baron Marochetti Bart Bayswater Brompton bust Campden-hill Castle Cavendish-square Charles Charlotte-street Church Clarke Cooper Countess Creswick daughter Davis designs Dixon Durham E. G. Papworth E. M. Barry Earl Edinburgh EDWARD Egley engraved erected Esq.-marble Exhibition Exhibitors F. R. Lee Fitzroy-square G. E. Street G. F. Watts George GEORGE GROTE Gloucester-road Goodall Gower-street Hall Hampstead-road Henry Hill Honourable J. E. Boehm J. E. Millais J. P. Knight J. W. Gordon James JAMES SANT John JOHN PRESCOTT John's-wood Jones Kensington King Lady Landseer Langham-chambers late Leslie Lewis Linnell London Lord marble medallion Miss Moore Mutrie Newman-street North Wales Number O'Neil Oxford-street Painted Percy-street Pickersgill Pimlico Portland-place Portman-square Portrait Prince Consort Queen Queen's-road Redgrave Regent's-park Richmond Roberts Royal Academy scene Smith South Stanfield Stanhope-street Street Surrey Tayler Thames Thomas Thorburn Thornycroft thou Upper Victoria-road Vide Ward Weigall West Westmacott WILLIAM Wood Wyatt
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Page 5 - Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into, Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 12 - Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces, and they said, The Lord, he is the God, the Lord, he is the God.
Page 50 - Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, " I have sinned, in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.
Page 46 - Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train And sable stole of cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Page 22 - And the angel came in unto her and said, "Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women.
Page 10 - Half buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange device — Excelsior!
Page 43 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 12 - I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Page 44 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in seaweed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.