The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volumen2Harper, 1833 |
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... lived at Springfield , began to be spoken of ; and Mr. Flower , a justice of Chester , looked at his works , and obtained leave from his parents to take him for a few weeks to his house . A young English lady was governess to his ...
... lived at Springfield , began to be spoken of ; and Mr. Flower , a justice of Chester , looked at his works , and obtained leave from his parents to take him for a few weeks to his house . A young English lady was governess to his ...
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... lived . How he contrived both to keep his place in the King's opinion , and the respect of the spirits who stirred in the American revolution , he has not told us , but it is not difficult to guess . He was of a nature cold and ...
... lived . How he contrived both to keep his place in the King's opinion , and the respect of the spirits who stirred in the American revolution , he has not told us , but it is not difficult to guess . He was of a nature cold and ...
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... lived sullenly and alone , and held intercourse with few of those men who influence the fame and fortune of artists . He seemed ever in a revery , out of which he was unwilling to be roused . The history of his life is the tale of ...
... lived sullenly and alone , and held intercourse with few of those men who influence the fame and fortune of artists . He seemed ever in a revery , out of which he was unwilling to be roused . The history of his life is the tale of ...
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... lived alone in a house which was never cleaned ; and he slept on a bedstead with no other furniture than a blanket nailed on the one side . I wanted him to visit me - no , he said ; he could not go out by day , because he could not ...
... lived alone in a house which was never cleaned ; and he slept on a bedstead with no other furniture than a blanket nailed on the one side . I wanted him to visit me - no , he said ; he could not go out by day , because he could not ...
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... lived in hostility ; but in the contest the former alone had been the sufferer . Admiration of the an- tique , and of Michael Angelo , had brought Barry to a steak broiled with his own hands , and a pot of porter drawn by a suspicious ...
... lived in hostility ; but in the contest the former alone had been the sufferer . Admiration of the an- tique , and of Michael Angelo , had brought Barry to a steak broiled with his own hands , and a pot of porter drawn by a suspicious ...
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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...