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... affection of friends , others by the malevolence of enemies - but most of them drawn up with the hurried indifference of men writing for bread . Of these works some are con- cise and barren , others overflowing and diffuse , and all are ...
... affection of friends , others by the malevolence of enemies - but most of them drawn up with the hurried indifference of men writing for bread . Of these works some are con- cise and barren , others overflowing and diffuse , and all are ...
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... the most innocent are catalogued with sins . This was the case in the contest between Charles and his parliament . As he had blended affection to the VOL . I. - E sciences with a lust of power , nonsense and igno- JAMES II . 49.
... the most innocent are catalogued with sins . This was the case in the contest between Charles and his parliament . As he had blended affection to the VOL . I. - E sciences with a lust of power , nonsense and igno- JAMES II . 49.
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... affection , in the feud which arose between the members of the fraternity of painters and Hogarth . The animosities of artists are only surpassed in sharpness and malignity by those of religious sects . A patron very different from the ...
... affection , in the feud which arose between the members of the fraternity of painters and Hogarth . The animosities of artists are only surpassed in sharpness and malignity by those of religious sects . A patron very different from the ...
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... affection . During this period Ho- garth designed and etched the first portion of " The Harlot's Progress , " so much to the gratification of Lady Thornhill that she advised her daughter to place it in her father's way . " Accordingly ...
... affection . During this period Ho- garth designed and etched the first portion of " The Harlot's Progress , " so much to the gratification of Lady Thornhill that she advised her daughter to place it in her father's way . " Accordingly ...
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... affections of man on canvass . It hath been thought a vast commenda- tion of a painter to say his figures seem to breathe , but surely it is a much greater and nobler applause that they appear to think . " The Harlot's Progress is no ...
... affections of man on canvass . It hath been thought a vast commenda- tion of a painter to say his figures seem to breathe , but surely it is a much greater and nobler applause that they appear to think . " The Harlot's Progress is no ...
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Academy admiration afterward Allan Ramsay appeared artist beauty Burke character church colouring composition copy Correggio court drawing elegance eminent employed England engraving excellence exhibition fame favourite feeling figures folly fortune friends Gainsborough gallery Garrick genius grace guineas hand happy Harlot's Progress Hogarth honour humour imagination John Gonson Johnson Kate Hackabout kind king Kneller labour ladies landscape Line of Beauty living London look Lord loved manner masters merit mind nature never Nichols noble North Briton Northcote observed obtained painted painter Paul Veronese pencil person poet portrait portrait-painting prints productions purchased racter Rake's Progress Raphael reputation Reynolds Rome royal Rubens satire says scene seems Sigismunda Sir Joshua Sir Richard Grosvenor sketches skill spirit splendour style talents taste Thicknesse thing Thornhill thought tion Titian truth ture Vandyke vanity Walpole Wilkes William Hogarth Wilson wish worthy
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Страница 157 - Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reached 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 honoured 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 301 - He desired to be buried near his friend Kirby in Kew churchyard ; and that his name only should be cut on his gravestone. He sent for Reynolds, and peace was made between them. Gainsborough exclaimed to Sir Joshua, " We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke is of the company," and immediately expired — August 3d, 1788, in the sixty-first year of his age.
Страница 257 - Sir Joshua was attacked by a paralytic affection. His friends were more alarmed than himself, and Johnson, to whom at all times the idea of death was terrific, addressed him in a letter of solemn anxiety. " I heard yesterday," he says, " of your late disorder, and should think ill of myself if I heard it without alarm. I heard likewise of your recovery, which I wish to be complete and permanent. Your country has been in danger of losing one of its brightest ornaments, and I of losing one of my oldest...
Страница 104 - When he recovered, he said he had a message to deliver to some women from Ford ; but he was not to tell what, or to whom. He walked out; he was followed; but somewhere about St. Paul's they lost him. He came back, and said he had delivered the message, and the women exclaimed, ' Then we are all undone !
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 220 - I am told, of foreign academies. This year was the second Exhibition. They please themselves much with the multitude of spectators, and imagine that the English School will rise in reputation.
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 221 - ... not for a pecuniary prize. It cannot be denied or doubted, that all who offer themselves to criticism are desirous of praise : this desire is not only innocent but virtuous, while it is undebased by artifice, and unpolluted by envy; and of envy or artifice...