The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1859 - Painters |
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... genius for art , -shall we question his wisdom ? Can we believe that he gives such rare gifts but for a wise and a good purpose ? I see the Divine hand in this ; we shall do well to sanction the art and encourage this youth . " The ...
... genius for art , -shall we question his wisdom ? Can we believe that he gives such rare gifts but for a wise and a good purpose ? I see the Divine hand in this ; we shall do well to sanction the art and encourage this youth . " The ...
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... genius chooses for itself is , how- ever , in most cases , the best . The sober imagina- tion of West had here a twofold excitement - he had witnessed the scene , and it was American - and had Lord Grosvenor encouraged him to imbody his ...
... genius chooses for itself is , how- ever , in most cases , the best . The sober imagina- tion of West had here a twofold excitement - he had witnessed the scene , and it was American - and had Lord Grosvenor encouraged him to imbody his ...
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... genius of the Old World had found its way to the New , that when the accidental capture of a Spanish vessel had placed a St. Ignatius of the Murillo school in the gallery of Governor Hamilton , West copied it without being either aware ...
... genius of the Old World had found its way to the New , that when the accidental capture of a Spanish vessel had placed a St. Ignatius of the Murillo school in the gallery of Governor Hamilton , West copied it without being either aware ...
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... genius , however , he had as yet submitted no proof : he had indeed shown his drawings to Mengs and to Hamilton , but they were , as he confessed , destitute of original merit ; nor , indeed , could they be commended for either neatness ...
... genius , however , he had as yet submitted no proof : he had indeed shown his drawings to Mengs and to Hamilton , but they were , as he confessed , destitute of original merit ; nor , indeed , could they be commended for either neatness ...
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... genius when it is struggling for distinction , befriend the world ; and their names should be held in remembrance . There is good sense and right feeling in the reply of Mahomet to the in- sinuation of the fair Ayesha , that his first ...
... genius when it is struggling for distinction , befriend the world ; and their names should be held in remembrance . There is good sense and right feeling in the reply of Mahomet to the in- sinuation of the fair Ayesha , that his first ...
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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...