The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1859 - Painters |
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... wish to remain in Rome - his heart was with his native land . He , however , resolved to visit the island of his fathers , and prepared for his journey . Of Rome he has left us this brief and pithy memo- randum : " Michael Angelo has ...
... wish to remain in Rome - his heart was with his native land . He , however , resolved to visit the island of his fathers , and prepared for his journey . Of Rome he has left us this brief and pithy memo- randum : " Michael Angelo has ...
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... wish to retain the Sovereign's good opinion - and his modesty and his merit deserved it . The palace doors now seemed to open of their own accord , and the domestics at- tended with an obedient start to the wishes of him whom the King ...
... wish to retain the Sovereign's good opinion - and his modesty and his merit deserved it . The palace doors now seemed to open of their own accord , and the domestics at- tended with an obedient start to the wishes of him whom the King ...
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... wish , " said the King , " that I had known all this before , for the objection has been the means of Lord Grosvenor's getting the picture , but you shall make a copy for me . ' 66 West had now obtained the personal confidence of the ...
... wish , " said the King , " that I had known all this before , for the objection has been the means of Lord Grosvenor's getting the picture , but you shall make a copy for me . ' 66 West had now obtained the personal confidence of the ...
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... wish to throw any wisdom away . The royal favour was much ; and he had besides a certain quiet air of natural dignity in his manner . The death of Reynolds vacated the President's chair , and no one then living was more worthy to fill ...
... wish to throw any wisdom away . The royal favour was much ; and he had besides a certain quiet air of natural dignity in his manner . The death of Reynolds vacated the President's chair , and no one then living was more worthy to fill ...
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... sometimes found their way to his inner study while he had the pencil in his hand ; he had no wish to show off his skill to the idle , and generally sat as silent and mo- tionless on such occasions as one of his own apos- II . - D WEST . 41.
... sometimes found their way to his inner study while he had the pencil in his hand ; he had no wish to show off his skill to the idle , and generally sat as silent and mo- tionless on such occasions as one of his own apos- II . - D WEST . 41.
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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...