The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Том 1J. & J. Harper, 1832 |
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... English classic , is there not every reason to hope that many will lay it down in a far different mood ? " - Blackwood's Magazine . " Though the subject is trite , the manner of treating it is such as to command our deepest attention ...
... English classic , is there not every reason to hope that many will lay it down in a far different mood ? " - Blackwood's Magazine . " Though the subject is trite , the manner of treating it is such as to command our deepest attention ...
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... English on the same subject . " - Athenæum . LIFE OF NELSON . By Robert Southey , Esq . With a Portrait . 18mo . " This is the best work that ever came from the pen of the laureate , and it is an excellent specimen of biography ...
... English on the same subject . " - Athenæum . LIFE OF NELSON . By Robert Southey , Esq . With a Portrait . 18mo . " This is the best work that ever came from the pen of the laureate , and it is an excellent specimen of biography ...
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... English on the same subject . " - Athenæum . " It is ably and eloquently written . " - B . Journal . " We have repeatedly borne testimony to the utility of this Library . It is one of the best that has ever been issued from the American ...
... English on the same subject . " - Athenæum . " It is ably and eloquently written . " - B . Journal . " We have repeatedly borne testimony to the utility of this Library . It is one of the best that has ever been issued from the American ...
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... English artist was curiously compounded ; he was at once archi- tect , sculptor , carpenter , goldsmith , armourer , jew- eller , saddler , tailor , and painter . There is extant , in Dugdale , a curious example of the character of the ...
... English artist was curiously compounded ; he was at once archi- tect , sculptor , carpenter , goldsmith , armourer , jew- eller , saddler , tailor , and painter . There is extant , in Dugdale , a curious example of the character of the ...
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... English work of art , and I shall transcribe the passage ; - " Her stature was mean , her hair of a dark yellow , her face round and full , her eyes gray : delicate harmony being between each part's proportion and each proportion's ...
... English work of art , and I shall transcribe the passage ; - " Her stature was mean , her hair of a dark yellow , her face round and full , her eyes gray : delicate harmony being between each part's proportion and each proportion's ...
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Страница 157 - Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reach'd the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. If Genius fire thee, reader, stay, If nature touch thee, drop a tear, If neither move thee — turn away — For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.
Страница 151 - ... as the back-ground and a dog, I began to consider how I could turn so much work laid aside to some account, and so patched up a print of Master Churchill in the character of a Bear. The pleasure and pecuniary advantage which I derived from these two engravings, together with occasionally riding on horseback, restored me to as much health as can be expected at my time of life.
Страница 198 - I ought to have done, was one of the most humiliating circumstances , that ever happened to me ; I found myself in the midst of works executed upon principles with which I was unacquainted: I felt my ignorance, and stood abashed.
Страница 177 - Poussin, to achieve it. In the picture alluded to, the first idea that presents itself is that of wonder, at seeing a figure in so uncommon a situation as that in which the Apollo is placed ; for the clouds on which he kneels have not the appearance of being able to support him...
Страница 275 - When they conceived a subject, they first made a variety of sketches ; then a finished drawing of the whole ; after that a more correct drawing of every separate part...
Страница 53 - I only have transferr'd it to her Eyes. Such are thy Pictures, Kneller. Such thy Skill, That Nature seems obedient to thy Will: Comes out, and meets thy Pencil in the draught: Lives there, and wants but words to speak her thought.
Страница 275 - ... hands, feet, and pieces of drapery ; they then painted the picture, and after all retouched it from the life. The pictures thus wrought with such pains now appear like the effect of enchantment, and as if some mighty Genius had struck them off at a blow.
Страница 301 - We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company," and immediately expired — August 2nd, • 1788, in the sixty-first year of his age.
Страница 270 - I reflect not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration * Che Raffaelle non ebbe quest" arte da nutura, ma per lunyo studio. of that truly divine man, and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.