The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volumen2Harper, 1833 |
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... employed to embellish life , to preserve voluptuous images , and add to the sensual gratifications of man . For this we classed it among vain and merely ornamental things , and excluded it from among us . But this is not the principle ...
... employed to embellish life , to preserve voluptuous images , and add to the sensual gratifications of man . For this we classed it among vain and merely ornamental things , and excluded it from among us . But this is not the principle ...
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... employ his powers on subjects holy and pure . The grave simplicity of the Quaker con- tinued to the last in the looks and manners of the artist , and the moral rectitude and internal purity of the man were diffused through all his ...
... employ his powers on subjects holy and pure . The grave simplicity of the Quaker con- tinued to the last in the looks and manners of the artist , and the moral rectitude and internal purity of the man were diffused through all his ...
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... employed in finishing those works , he had the good fortune to be introduced to Dr. Johnson and Mr. Burke . Johnson he admired much , and found civil and even kind . Burke also was in- dulgent ; but our artist conceived there was an air ...
... employed in finishing those works , he had the good fortune to be introduced to Dr. Johnson and Mr. Burke . Johnson he admired much , and found civil and even kind . Burke also was in- dulgent ; but our artist conceived there was an air ...
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... employed him to paint the death of Epaminondas , as a com- panion to that of Wolfe , the death of the Chevalier Bayard , Cyrus liberating the family of the King of Armenia , and Segestus and his daughter brought before Germanicus . The ...
... employed him to paint the death of Epaminondas , as a com- panion to that of Wolfe , the death of the Chevalier Bayard , Cyrus liberating the family of the King of Armenia , and Segestus and his daughter brought before Germanicus . The ...
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... employing his time , can hardly be expected to re - read his discourses . So regular were West's hours of labour , and so carefully did he calculate his time , that to describe one day of his life is to describe years . He rose early ...
... employing his time , can hardly be expected to re - read his discourses . So regular were West's hours of labour , and so carefully did he calculate his time , that to describe one day of his life is to describe years . He rose early ...
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admired Amelia Opie appeared artist Barry Barry's beauty Benjamin West Bird Blake brethren Burke called character colours companion compositions copy death Domenichino drawing easel eminent engravings excellence exclaimed exhibited eyes fame fancy father feeling Felpham finished formed fortune friends Fuseli gallery genius GEORGE MORLAND grace grave guineas hand happy Hassell Henry Fuseli historical honour imagination imbodied invention kind King labour lived London looked Lord Lord Grosvenor Majesty master merit Michael Angelo Milton mind Morland nation nature never Opie original painter painting pencil person picture Pindar poet poetic poetry portrait praise Prince Hoare productions Quaker racter Raphael Rembrandt Reynolds Rome Royal Academy says scene seemed Shakspeare Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Sistine Chapel sketches skill spirit talents taste temper thing thought tion Titian tures visions West wife wild wish Wolcot young
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Página 130 - 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 !
Página 130 - 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!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Página 126 - TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forest of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the ardour 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 ? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand form'd...
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 131 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read ' — So he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear.
Página 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...
Página 149 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
Página 102 - ... the meaner sort of painters, who counterfeit only such faces as are set before them, and the more excellent, who, having no law but wit, bestow that in colours upon you which is fittest for the eye to see...
Página 31 - Forty years intercourse, we might almost say friendship, confirmed to the painter the accuracy of these words. "The king received West with easy frankness, assisted him to place the Agrippina in a favourable light, removed the attendants, and brought in the queen, to whom he presented our quaker. He related to her majesty the history of the picture, and bade her notice the simplicity of the design and the beauty of the colouring. ' There is another noble Roman subject...