The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volumen12Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1828 |
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... sculpture and painting . If he had continued his design , he would have led his traveller to other divisions of Europe at the same epoch ; but Italy , and the productions of the Italian mind , exclusively . occupied the only part of the ...
... sculpture and painting . If he had continued his design , he would have led his traveller to other divisions of Europe at the same epoch ; but Italy , and the productions of the Italian mind , exclusively . occupied the only part of the ...
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No. II . JOHN FLAXMAN , ESQ . R.A. PROFESSOR OF SCULPTURE AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY . Ir is a trite remark , that the worth of superior talents is seldom sufficiently valued until their possessor is placed be- yond the influence of praise ...
No. II . JOHN FLAXMAN , ESQ . R.A. PROFESSOR OF SCULPTURE AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY . Ir is a trite remark , that the worth of superior talents is seldom sufficiently valued until their possessor is placed be- yond the influence of praise ...
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... sculpture in the warehouse of his father ; from many of which he made small models in clay , and being admitted , in 1770 , a student of the Royal Academy , he there continued to prosecute his studies with the greatest diligence . We ...
... sculpture in the warehouse of his father ; from many of which he made small models in clay , and being admitted , in 1770 , a student of the Royal Academy , he there continued to prosecute his studies with the greatest diligence . We ...
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... sculpture and literature of the Greeks . Among the most striking beauties of this arduous and splendid work , are the personi- fication of the sun , by the spirited alto - relievo of Apollo in his chariot , in the centre of the shield ...
... sculpture and literature of the Greeks . Among the most striking beauties of this arduous and splendid work , are the personi- fication of the sun , by the spirited alto - relievo of Apollo in his chariot , in the centre of the shield ...
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... sculpture has advanced to a very great eminence . This is , perhaps , attributable to the fertile inventions and magnificent designs of Mr. Flaxman , more than to any other single cause . Undertaking the task of illustrating the great ...
... sculpture has advanced to a very great eminence . This is , perhaps , attributable to the fertile inventions and magnificent designs of Mr. Flaxman , more than to any other single cause . Undertaking the task of illustrating the great ...
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Página 368 - Let us fly to the aid of Portugal, by whomsoever attacked ; because it is our duty to do so : and let us cease our interference where that duty ends. We go to Portugal, not to rule, not to dictate, not to prescribe constitutions — but to defend and to preserve the independence of an ally. We go to plant the standard of England on the well-known heights of Lisbon. Where that standard is planted, foreign dominion shall not come.
Página 361 - ... for action. You well know, Gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing...
Página 361 - Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might — such is England herself, while apparently passive and motionless she silently concentrates the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion.
Página 369 - Might not compensation for disparagement be obtained, and the policy of our ancestors vindicated, by means better adapted to the present time? If France occupied Spain, was it necessary, in order to avoid the consequences of that occupation, that we should blockade Cadiz? No. I looked another way. I sought materials of compensation in another hemisphere. Contemplating Spain, such as our ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain " with the Indies." I called...
Página 143 - Such liberality was not lost upon me ; I grew anxious to make the best return in my power, and I redoubled my diligence. Now, that I am sunk into indolence, I look back with some degree of scepticism to the exertions of that period.
Página 111 - Biographical Memoirs of William Ged, including a particular Account of his Progress in the Art of Block-printing, 1781,
Página 157 - Johnson, in some volume lying on the table, which I ventured (for I was then young) to deem incorrect, and pointed it out to him. I could not help thinking that he was somewhat of my opinion ; but he was cautious and reserved. " But, sir," said I, willing to overcome his scruples, " Dr. Johnson himself," a fact which Mr. Bryant well knew, " admitted that he was not a good Greek scholar.
Página 140 - I look back to that part of my life which immediately followed this event with little satisfaction ; it was a period of gloom and savage unsociability : by degrees I sunk into a kind of corporeal torpor ; or if roused into activity by the spirit of youth, wasted the exertion in splenetic and vexatious tricks, which alienated the few acquaintances compassion had yet left me.
Página 137 - Smerdon (my first master) was now grown old and infirm ; it seemed unlikely that he should hold out above three or four years ; and I fondly flattered myself that, notwithstanding my youth, I might possibly be appointed to succeed him. I was...
Página 362 - ... England herself, while apparently passive and motionless she silently concentrates the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. But God forbid that that occasion should arise. After a war sustained for nearly a quarter of a century — sometimes single-handed, and with all Europe arranged at times against her or at her side, England needs a period of tranquillity, and may enjoy it without fear of misconstruction.