 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1888 - 434 стор.
...principal artist by Horace Walpole. " There is no instance," says he, " of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." It is generally believed that Gibbons was the artist of these exquisite carvings. There is, however,... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1896 - 868 стор.
...Gibbon " An original genius, a citizen of nature. There is no instance before him of ajman who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...together the various productions of the elements, with the free disorder natural to each species." Many tine specimens of Gibbon's carvings still exist in... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1906 - 846 стор.
...Gibbon. — An original genius, a citizen of nature. There is no instance before him of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species. ;ee our Court, and compliment his Majesty. I was >resent... | |
 | John M. Dillon - 1908 - 456 стор.
...Horace Walpole's eulogy. He says: " There is no instance of a man before, who gave to wood the light airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." The New Quadrangle, built from designs of TG Jackson, is very attractive. These buildings were completed... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1909 - 424 стор.
...and the decoration. In the words of Walpole "there is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers and...together the various productions of the elements with a fine disorder natural to each species." The naked walls, the arcades, the recesses of St. Paul's might... | |
 | George Edwin Rines - 1911 - 658 стор.
...effect is astonishing." Horace Waipole writes: "There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." Specimens of his carving may be seen in many of the London churches, at Windsor, Kensington and in... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - 1911 - 402 стор.
...have died. The next really great sculptor we come to is Grinling Gibbon,^ who, as Walpole says, " gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...elements, with a free disorder natural to each species." At one time there wal, much divergence of opinion concerning his nationality and parentage, Murray... | |
 | Frederick William Burgess - 1915 - 592 стор.
...instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers and changed together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species." DECORATED. The decorated furniture which ranges in date from 1714 to 1725 began during the reign of... | |
 | Ontario. Bureau of Forestry - 1896 - 142 стор.
...Gibbon " An original genius, a citizen of nature. There is no instance before him of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...together the various productions of the elements, with the free disorder natural to each species." Many fine specimens of Gibbon's carvings still exist in... | |
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There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species. 
