The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1859 - Painters |
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... desired him to watch over his son with more than ordinary solici- tude . " For a child , " said he , " sent into the world under such remarkable circumstances , will assuredly prove a wonderful man . One lucky prediction establishes the ...
... desired him to watch over his son with more than ordinary solici- tude . " For a child , " said he , " sent into the world under such remarkable circumstances , will assuredly prove a wonderful man . One lucky prediction establishes the ...
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... desired to sit to West for her portrait . The people of Lancaster had taste and intelligence ; they saw him perform his task with much ability , and came in such crowds to sit to the boy , that he had some trouble in meeting their ...
... desired to sit to West for her portrait . The people of Lancaster had taste and intelligence ; they saw him perform his task with much ability , and came in such crowds to sit to the boy , that he had some trouble in meeting their ...
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... desired that his imagination should catch the life and spirit of antiquity , he ought to have begun nearer the beginning . It is needless to expect a strong crop , when we have only scratched the surface of the soil . This While picking ...
... desired that his imagination should catch the life and spirit of antiquity , he ought to have begun nearer the beginning . It is needless to expect a strong crop , when we have only scratched the surface of the soil . This While picking ...
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... desired it , he went to New - York ; with which place he was not at first much delighted . Eager traffickers from all quarters thronged her streets and quays , and the young painter was elbowed into the shade by those " Who darkling ...
... desired it , he went to New - York ; with which place he was not at first much delighted . Eager traffickers from all quarters thronged her streets and quays , and the young painter was elbowed into the shade by those " Who darkling ...
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... desired to be torn to pieces by the religious mob . This man had travelled to Rome with a fixed resolu- tion either to convert the Pope to Calvinism or be- come a martyr . He yielded for the moment to Grant's entreaties ; but next day ...
... desired to be torn to pieces by the religious mob . This man had travelled to Rome with a fixed resolu- tion either to convert the Pope to Calvinism or be- come a martyr . He yielded for the moment to Grant's entreaties ; but next day ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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!
Page 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?
Page 150 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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...