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... pure mo- rality and flourishing establishments of the New . The language of the preacher was vehement and inflammatory . He pictured the licentious manners and atheistical principles of France , and the love of 6 EMINENT PAINTERS .
... pure mo- rality and flourishing establishments of the New . The language of the preacher was vehement and inflammatory . He pictured the licentious manners and atheistical principles of France , and the love of 6 EMINENT PAINTERS .
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... manners , and that serenity of look which artists love ; while around them the nations of Europe had scattered their children as thick as the trees of the forest . The gay Frenchman , the plod- ding Dutchman , the energetic Englishman ...
... manners , and that serenity of look which artists love ; while around them the nations of Europe had scattered their children as thick as the trees of the forest . The gay Frenchman , the plod- ding Dutchman , the energetic Englishman ...
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... manners of the artist , and the moral rectitude and internal purity of the man were diffused through all his produc tions . Being now left more to the freedom of his own will , West deviated into a course not at all profes- sional , but ...
... manners of the artist , and the moral rectitude and internal purity of the man were diffused through all his produc tions . Being now left more to the freedom of his own will , West deviated into a course not at all profes- sional , but ...
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... manner . The death of Reynolds vacated the President's chair , and no one then living was more worthy to fill it than Mr. West . The fierce temper of Barry left him no chance of the honour which his genius merited . To the choice of the ...
... manner . The death of Reynolds vacated the President's chair , and no one then living was more worthy to fill it than Mr. West . The fierce temper of Barry left him no chance of the honour which his genius merited . To the choice of the ...
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... manner easy ; his Quaker - like sobriety seemed little elevated by inter- course with nobles and waiting gentlewomen . On the Windsor pictures he expended much study , and to render them worthy of their place , he " trimmed , " as he ...
... manner easy ; his Quaker - like sobriety seemed little elevated by inter- course with nobles and waiting gentlewomen . On the Windsor pictures he expended much study , and to render them worthy of their place , he " trimmed , " as he ...
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Página 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...
Página 131 - Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read.
Página 150 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning...
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 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?
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 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 143 - Belvidere, and all the grand works of ancient art. They were executed in a very superior style to those justly admired copies, being with their accompaniments terrific and grand in the highest degree. The Artist has endeavoured to emulate the grandeur of those seen in his vision, and to apply it to modern Heroes, on a smaller scale.