The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volumen2Harper, 1833 |
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... never be a tailor ? " " Indeed , but I shall , " replied the other ; " it is a good trade . What do you intend to be , Benjamin ? " — " A painter . ” “ A painter ! what sort of a trade is a painter ? I never heard of it before . " - " A ...
... never be a tailor ? " " Indeed , but I shall , " replied the other ; " it is a good trade . What do you intend to be , Benjamin ? " — " A painter . ” “ A painter ! what sort of a trade is a painter ? I never heard of it before . " - " A ...
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... never before heard of Greece or of Rome , or of the heroes , philosophers , poets , painters , and histo- rians , whom they had produced , and he listened , while the lady spoke of them , with an enthusiasm which , after an experience ...
... never before heard of Greece or of Rome , or of the heroes , philosophers , poets , painters , and histo- rians , whom they had produced , and he listened , while the lady spoke of them , with an enthusiasm which , after an experience ...
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... never been instructed in drawing ; but I can paint a little , and if you will do me the honour to sit for your por- trait that I may show it to Mengs , you will do me a great kindness . " His Lordship consented ; the por- trait was ...
... never been instructed in drawing ; but I can paint a little , and if you will do me the honour to sit for your por- trait that I may show it to Mengs , you will do me a great kindness . " His Lordship consented ; the por- trait was ...
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... never was a better - she believed in me when men despised me ; she relieved my wants when I was poor and persecuted by the world . " The names of Smith , Hamilton , Kelly , Allen , Jackson , Rutherford , and Lord Grantham must be dear ...
... never was a better - she believed in me when men despised me ; she relieved my wants when I was poor and persecuted by the world . " The names of Smith , Hamilton , Kelly , Allen , Jackson , Rutherford , and Lord Grantham must be dear ...
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... never in his life conceived what a joke meant , sat grave and steady like one of his own sitters , while the minstrel unslung his guitar , and , with a glance that told Hamilton he knew what to do , burst into song . At first he was ...
... never in his life conceived what a joke meant , sat grave and steady like one of his own sitters , while the minstrel unslung his guitar , and , with a glance that told Hamilton he knew what to do , burst into song . At first he was ...
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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...