The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Том 2Harper & brothers, 1859 |
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... less ro- mantic view of the matter , advised the artist to stick to his easel , and arranged the whole so pru- dently , that the lady came to London accompanied by a relation whose time was not so valuable as West's - and they were ...
... less ro- mantic view of the matter , advised the artist to stick to his easel , and arranged the whole so pru- dently , that the lady came to London accompanied by a relation whose time was not so valuable as West's - and they were ...
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... less so that you come in good time to vindicate my praises of American skating . " He called to him Lord Spen- cer Hamilton and some of the Cavendishes , to whom he introduced West as one of the Philadelphia pro- digies , and requested ...
... less so that you come in good time to vindicate my praises of American skating . " He called to him Lord Spen- cer Hamilton and some of the Cavendishes , to whom he introduced West as one of the Philadelphia pro- digies , and requested ...
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... less distinguished for plain practical sense . He pressed upon the students the value of know- edge and the necessity of study , and the useless- ness of both without a corresponding aptitude of mind and buoyancy of imagination - in ...
... less distinguished for plain practical sense . He pressed upon the students the value of know- edge and the necessity of study , and the useless- ness of both without a corresponding aptitude of mind and buoyancy of imagination - in ...
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... less and temperate had kept his strength unim- paired , and he had still the same composed and de- termined mind by which he was distinguished in hi youth . He had also unbounded confidence in his own powers , and since the illness of ...
... less and temperate had kept his strength unim- paired , and he had still the same composed and de- termined mind by which he was distinguished in hi youth . He had also unbounded confidence in his own powers , and since the illness of ...
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... or indeed any thing else , only because it is less expensive than making them peruquiers or shoemakers . " With better sense , he continues , " drawing and modelling in the academy , with the assistance of a 62 EMINENT PAINTERS .
... or indeed any thing else , only because it is less expensive than making them peruquiers or shoemakers . " With better sense , he continues , " drawing and modelling in the academy , with the assistance of a 62 EMINENT PAINTERS .
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admired Amelia Opie appeared artist Barry Barry's beauty Benjamin West Bird Blake brethren Burke called character colours companion compositions copy death Domenichino drawing easel eminent engravings excellence exclaimed exhibited eyes fame fancy father feeling Felpham finished formed fortune friends Fuseli gallery genius GEORGE MORLAND grace grave guineas hand happy Hassell Henry Fuseli historical honour imagination imbodied invention kind King labour lived London looked Lord Lord Grosvenor Majesty master merit Michael Angelo Milton mind Morland nation nature never Opie original painter painting pencil person picture Pindar poet poetic poetry portrait praise Prince Hoare productions Quaker racter Raphael Rembrandt Reynolds Rome Royal Academy says scene seemed Shakspeare Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Sistine Chapel sketches skill spirit talents taste temper thing thought tion Titian tures visions West wife wild wish Wolcot young
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Сторінка 126 - What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee...
Сторінка 125 - Whether in Heaven ye wander fair, Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air Where the melodious winds have birth...
Сторінка 131 - PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: 'Pipe a song about a Lamb!
Сторінка 126 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
Сторінка 150 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning...
Сторінка 142 - This is an awful thing to say to oil painters ; they may call it madness, but it is true. All the genuine old little pictures, called cabinet pictures, are in fresco and not in oil.
Сторінка 141 - Colouring does not depend on where the Colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on Form or Outline. On where that is put; where that is wrong, the Colouring never can be right; and it is always wrong in Titian and Correggio, Rubens and Rembrandt.
Сторінка 232 - Peter's, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramante and his successors, he concentrated ; suspended the cupola, and to the most complex gave the air of the most simple of edifices.
Сторінка 144 - How do we distinguish the oak from the beech, the horse from the ox, but by the bounding outline? How do we distinguish one face or countenance from another, but by the bounding line and its infinite inflexions and movements?
Сторінка 143 - The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations: as one age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight, but to immortals only the same; for we see the same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men; nothing new occurs in identical existence; Accident ever varies, Substance can never suffer change nor decay. Of Chaucer's characters, as described in his Canterbury Tales...