Memoirs of a Picture: Containing the Adventures of Many Conspicuous Characters and Interspersed with a Variety of Amusing Anecdotes of Several Very Extraordinary Personages Connected with the Arts : Including a Genuine Biographical Sketch of that Celebrated Original and Eccentric Genius, the Late Mr. George Morland ... : to which is Added a Copious Appendix, Embracing Every Interesting Subject Relative to Our Justly Admired English Painter and His Most Valuable Works, Volume 2C. Stower, 1805 |
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... hope of his reformation - Schemes of musical recreation frustrated - Introduction of a stranger to his brother and sister - Reflections upon the cruel par- tiality of parents to one child in prejudice to another— Obliged to remove from ...
... hope of his reformation - Schemes of musical recreation frustrated - Introduction of a stranger to his brother and sister - Reflections upon the cruel par- tiality of parents to one child in prejudice to another— Obliged to remove from ...
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... hope may prove acceptable to every reader . Ir a mean garret , where the wretchedness of every object that could be substituted in the place of furniture , with here and there a remnant of decayed dress , as a sad memo- rial of former ...
... hope may prove acceptable to every reader . Ir a mean garret , where the wretchedness of every object that could be substituted in the place of furniture , with here and there a remnant of decayed dress , as a sad memo- rial of former ...
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... HOPE OF HIS REFORMATION SCHEMES OF MUSICAL RECREATION FRUSTRATED- RATED INTRODUCTION OF A STRANGER TO HIS BROTHER AND SISTER REFLECTIONS UPON THE CRUEL PARTIALITY OF PA- RENTS TO ONE CHILD IN PREJUDICE TO ANOTHER OBLIGED TO REMOVE - حمة ...
... HOPE OF HIS REFORMATION SCHEMES OF MUSICAL RECREATION FRUSTRATED- RATED INTRODUCTION OF A STRANGER TO HIS BROTHER AND SISTER REFLECTIONS UPON THE CRUEL PARTIALITY OF PA- RENTS TO ONE CHILD IN PREJUDICE TO ANOTHER OBLIGED TO REMOVE - حمة ...
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... hope the spirit of the publisher will , from the liberal encou- -ragement his talents entitle him to , be enabled to complete the whole of these matchless specimens of British genius and industry . While our English genius proceeded in ...
... hope the spirit of the publisher will , from the liberal encou- -ragement his talents entitle him to , be enabled to complete the whole of these matchless specimens of British genius and industry . While our English genius proceeded in ...
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... , though he principally " worked for his brother , several persons , with the hope of being able to procure some of his pictures , constantly flocked to his house ; and others , from motives of sheer curiosity , sought 115.
... , though he principally " worked for his brother , several persons , with the hope of being able to procure some of his pictures , constantly flocked to his house ; and others , from motives of sheer curiosity , sought 115.
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Memoirs of a Picture: Containing the Adventures of Many ..., Volume 2 William Collins Visualização integral - 1805 |
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Página 153 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Página 156 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Página 153 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Página 159 - withdraw to a respectful distance ; and should they behold the ruins of genius, or the weak158 ness of an exalted mind, let them be taught to lament — that Nature has left the noblest of her works imperfect.
Página 158 - Gothic triumph to those excesses which are the overflowings of faculties they never enjoyed. Perfectly unconscious that they are indebted to their stupidity for the...
Página 158 - The gifts of imagination bring the heaviest task upon the vigilance of reason; and to bear those faculties with unerring rectitude, or invariable propriety, requires a degree of firmness and of cool attention, which doth not always attend the higher gifts of the mind. Yet, difficult as nature herself seems to have rendered the...
Página 185 - ... surprising for his years ; and it particularly recommended him to the favour of the landgrave of Hesse, who became his patron, and presented him with a sum of money to enable him to go to Rome, where he might improve his promising talents, intending to employ him in hisservice whenever he returned to his own country. On his first entrance into Rome, happening to pass by the arch of Titus, he saw a few young artists attentively engaged in sketching the basso-relievos ; and, observing that grand...
Página 74 - When one morning his servant came again, and delivered a message from his master, who waited for an answer at the Cavendish Square Coffee House, the corner of Princes Street. There, in a little back parlour, his friend found him, with a bason of rum and -milk, a large pointer by his side, a Guinea pig in his handkerchief, and a beautiful American squirrel he had just bought for .his wife.
Página 231 - Leech" over his own portrait. In slip-case of half red morocco. 2. ACKERMAN (R.). The Microcosm of London. This work already honored by HIS approbation is most humbly dedicated by permission to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, by his grateful and obedient servant, R.
Página 176 - It was intended to be used in the senses ascribed to the word in Johnson's Dictionary, viz. " Mental power or faculties. Disposition of nature by which any one is qualified to some peculiar employment. Nature; disposition.