Arts
(Golder Project subject term)
Represented in
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Canto Second in The New Zealand Survey
- However much of pleasure we conceive / In those appearances, which meet the eye, / Like one’s sweet smile, that would a fellow greet / Yet clothing some strange workings of the mind / All outwardly unseen, a secret kept, / While planning alterations in affairs / Which no one else must know, until that time / Arrives such to develope; or perhaps / Hide some strange doings hitherto concealed / From public view, and not to be divulged,— / Save what some little foible might disclose
- So here, though clothed in Nature’s vernal robes / This scene delightful, calling forth our praise, / And admiration, still, all speak of change / And revolutions buried in the past; / But which oblivion fails such things to veil, / Though such might ’scape the less enquiring eye / That doats on beauty, willing to admire!
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In Memorium in The New Zealand Survey
- And now St. James’ Park a scene display’d / Of dazzling beauty, seldom to be seen, / As art and nature had become allied / In cheerfulness, opposed to all that’s sad! / The sun seem’d brighter in the azure sky, / And seem’d the grass to show a lovelier green; / For all felt gratitude to Him, who holds / The balance just of Power, dispensing right / The awards of justice to the fallen foe, / Of peace, as prelude to prosperity!
- Besides expressing admiration oft, / Of all they saw of beauty that delights / The heart and fancy—happiness the end!
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Canto Fourth in The New Zealand Survey
- This scene, as much enchanting to the eye, / When well considered, may reflections stir, / Which would sensations sweet send through the mind / And prove to grieving hearts a soothing balm!
- Blue Gums, and Stringy Barks, / The Oak, the Ash, the Hawthorn and the Larch, / Are in this country but exotics, brought / With many others, which one’s fancy culls / As a variety, far-fetched, and strange, / To be accounted “tasteful”—in advance / Of those content with homely native things!
- Here, as elsewhere, must civilization’s power, / In industry, in enterprise, and skill,— / All three with ardent energy combined, / Must rise and conquer nature’s wildness, and / Upon her work far other changes bold / To bring her to subjection; thus, must mind, / As aided by pecuniary means, / Be stamped on stubborn matter, as a die / An image would impress on plastic things; / The while effecting in reality, / What fancy paints, a pleasing happy scene!
- For since the time / The naked hills rose from the briny deep— / A mass, unsightly in their nakedness!—
- In all due time / This newly raised isle’s uncouth nakedness / Must disappear, and some adornment have!
- as ’twere to show / There will be no neglect of aught that adds / To beauty from variety.
- As well set music sung which charms the ear, / And thrilling harmony sends through the soul,
- So see this valley, as it now exists / In all its native grandeur, cov’ring much / Of elemental rudeness with the garb / Of vernal beauty; it can tell its tale / (Ev’n so of others may the same be said) / Of mighty revolutions undergone, / As marvellous as when above the waves / Yon mountain summits rose and stood on high.
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Canto First in The New Zealand Survey
- Imagination well might conjure scenes / Of fairy temples, amid flowery lawns, / Or ample orchard lands, with jets de eau, / And statues tastefully arranged around / Enliven’d by the songsters of the grove; / But this surpasses all that fancy sought / Of pleasure, from realities apart; / For this contains them all within itself / Eclipsing quite the visionary scenes
- And Superstition fain would hide the head / Convinced of folly in its rigid rites / Of formal services, and outward show, / Where mammon more is served than Him who claims / The humble heart’s devotion as his due. / Come from a sterile soil, where stunted views / Of holy life but grovel upon earth, / And never can expand to heav’nly heights, / Nor peace nor charity extend to all / Who differ may in conscience from his rule; / He finds some strange misgivings in his heart, / As there, some voice for first to him reveal’d, / A deep impression makes, as ’twould declare / That with his former ideas of truth / Were mingled much of error!—such bestirs / Reflections on the history of the past / With sighings for the future, while he strives / To raze what habit long has rooted deep!
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Canto First in The New Zealand Survey
- to the painter’s muse unfolds / A scenery richly picturesque and grand / Apart from ought of tameness, as to need / Some fancy touches of his penciling art / T’ attractth’ observer’s wonder loving eye!
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A Retrospective Reverie. — On receiving the “Hamilton Advertiser” a provincial newspaper, sent from “Home,” 1859 in The New Zealand Survey
- Yes, Avon’s haugh seem, now adorn’d, / With arts achievments, giving beauty / To time worn aspects, while new grace / Imparting to rough nature’s face / As some had done a moral duty!
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An Ode on Manawatu in The New Zealand Survey
- Long, long have those plains been enveloped in glooms— / That gloom of lone solitudes dreary and wild; / Though nature’s prolific in much that presumes / On richness, yet here every pleasure seem’d foiled, / For want of that culture, inhabitants bring / With them so enlightening, whence blessings accrue; / May soon thy time come of good change, when will spring / New beauties around thee, lone Manawatu!
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Canto Third in The New Zealand Survey
- a rending, and / Upheaving impetus no more to lie / In deeps invisible,—where waters dense / The sunlight cannot penetrate to cheer / The fathomless profound;—these, in their turn, / To share in beauty’s pleasures, and receive / The genial influence of light and heat / Must from their shades be brought!
- So the volcanic mountain, as with joy, / At being raised high ’bove the briny floods, / Would now send up its volumes of red flame, / Oft burnishing around the face of heaven; / While squirting high its jets of liquid fire, / With stones, which fly like meteor’s through the air, / Sublimely dreadful all to be beheld!
- various kinds of shells first rais’d to light, / To sparkle divers beauties in the sun!
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Canto Second in The New Zealand Survey
- How varied other works around display’d / Of ornament, whose elegance bespeak / Much cultivated taste of those who such / Devised, or patronised, as others would / Man’s sternness for utility; thus Art, / Like a sweet sister Grace, as handmaid to / Broad shoulder’d Industry of rougher mould, / Her trust fulfils, endeavoring to smooth / Th’ asperities still left our nature’s face; / And clothes that nakedness which oft appears / As the result of man’s primeval sin!— / While multiplying much of beauty left, / As worthy admiration, tending all / To cheer from melancholy’s painful glooms!
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Paikakariki.—A Sonnet in The New Zealand Survey
- While the sun, shining free, / Paints all with bright glories most charming to see!
- a beautiful view / Opes up to the traveller, inviting to rest, / The scene to enjoy, ere he’d farther pursue / His journey—thus feasting on pleasures the best:—
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A Lay on Wanganui in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- Each scene’s reflected beauty, round / Upon thy wave, inverted shewn, / Might lovely be; but not was found / The fond admirer such to own! / The sun would from meridian heights / Behold his gleamings on thy wave; / But none else there could take delight / In sparkling beauties shewn, or crave / The blessings thou couldst give to toil; / For all was Solitude around!— / How cheerless Nature’s brightest smile / Where no inhabitant is found! / Such, who might have enhanced the charms / Around, and made thee lovelier still;—
- Aye then what grand improvements due, / Will on thine aspect be impress’d: / Thy present worthiness, most true, / Shall thus in future be confess’d!
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Signatures in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- What Signatures some folks will make, / As being dubious of good fame! / Such heiroglyphics much partake / The semblance of some conscious shame! / As one who dares not shew his face / With honour ’mid the light of day; / Who owl-like courts the darkest place, / Cognition dreading with dismay!
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Canto Fifth in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- True love is beauty’s counterpart in truth: / All outward comeliness is much at fault, / When true-love has no dwelling in the heart! / The prude may make attempt at outward show, / In artificial decorations gay, / With mirror’d smiles and counterfeited charms; / Yet have no beanty worthy to be seen, / When in th’ affections truth is quite innane!
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Canto Sixth in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- The ideal prize gave pleasue, while it was
- As when the sun dispels the misty cloud, / And shews around fair Nature in her charms!
- he was plain, and modest, and sincere; / He had not that attractive artfulness / So winning, as in others; the glib tongue / To him belong’d not; and the foppish airs / Of pride were not with him, so could not gain / The heart of the beloved, so as to be / By her acknowledged chief in her esteem: / While even then, for truth and constancy, / And conduct good, she could not him despise! / Another was her beau; one smart to see, / And full of sprightliness; aye, one who had / A smooth tongue fit to please the itching ear / That doats on flatt’ry; and knew how to clothe
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Canto Third in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- the sunny scene,—a landscape fair / Of villas, fields, and rills, with woodland heights / At distance gleaming,—all, where Nature gay / Displays her beauties ’neath the blest effects / Of a bright atmosphere, and cheering beams / Of summer’s sun;
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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Arts":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.