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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... things directly contrary to his advantage - Sums paid him by his brother for a day's painting , towards the latter end of July , 1804 - Last drawing he made for him , in the month he died · CHAPTER XV . Page 138 The melancholy news of ...
... things directly contrary to his advantage - Sums paid him by his brother for a day's painting , towards the latter end of July , 1804 - Last drawing he made for him , in the month he died · CHAPTER XV . Page 138 The melancholy news of ...
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... thing of the business . This seeming difficulty , however , was surmount- ed in the following manner . One of the largest drawers of a very complete colour- box , bought for him by his father , served at once for a depository for his ...
... thing of the business . This seeming difficulty , however , was surmount- ed in the following manner . One of the largest drawers of a very complete colour- box , bought for him by his father , served at once for a depository for his ...
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... thing known of that master's . As it was painted upon a very fine old pannel , its high state of preser- vation was accounted for by the care it was natural to conclude had been taken of it , from the number of accidents to which wood ...
... thing known of that master's . As it was painted upon a very fine old pannel , its high state of preser- vation was accounted for by the care it was natural to conclude had been taken of it , from the number of accidents to which wood ...
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... and others . As the masters of each and all of these productions are entitled to their due meed of praise , it would be invidious to enter into any thing like a comparison - here of their respective merits ; but in re- lating / 19.
... and others . As the masters of each and all of these productions are entitled to their due meed of praise , it would be invidious to enter into any thing like a comparison - here of their respective merits ; but in re- lating / 19.
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... thing corresponding , yet we can attest , that there was not , a room in it but was infested . with guinea pigs , tame rabbits , or dogs of various breed . Here it was the author , ' upon his first visit to the new habitation , per ...
... thing corresponding , yet we can attest , that there was not , a room in it but was infested . with guinea pigs , tame rabbits , or dogs of various breed . Here it was the author , ' upon his first visit to the new habitation , per ...
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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.