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... hand . In manners he was as opposite to the bland- ness of Sir Joshua Reynolds as the east side is to the west of Leicester - square . Of REYNOLDS , how many delightful traits are written in letters of gold ! -how the bachelor Painter ...
... hand . In manners he was as opposite to the bland- ness of Sir Joshua Reynolds as the east side is to the west of Leicester - square . Of REYNOLDS , how many delightful traits are written in letters of gold ! -how the bachelor Painter ...
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... hand who etched ' Modern Military Punishments , ' though it is in somewhat of a better style . " An impression has been sold for eight guineas , & c . Samuel Ireland has engraved Miller's Ticket in his Graphic Illustrations , but , upon ...
... hand who etched ' Modern Military Punishments , ' though it is in somewhat of a better style . " An impression has been sold for eight guineas , & c . Samuel Ireland has engraved Miller's Ticket in his Graphic Illustrations , but , upon ...
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... hand . Sir Plume- the round - faced and insignificant Sir Plume , Of amber snuff - box justly vain , And the nice conduct of a clouded cane , " - for Sir George Brown ; he was angry that the Poet should make him talk nothing but ...
... hand . Sir Plume- the round - faced and insignificant Sir Plume , Of amber snuff - box justly vain , And the nice conduct of a clouded cane , " - for Sir George Brown ; he was angry that the Poet should make him talk nothing but ...
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... hand in hand , the most striking objects that presented them- selves , either comic or tragic , made the strongest impression on my mind ; but had I not sedulously practised what I had thus acquired , I should very soon have lost the ...
... hand in hand , the most striking objects that presented them- selves , either comic or tragic , made the strongest impression on my mind ; but had I not sedulously practised what I had thus acquired , I should very soon have lost the ...
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... hand to catch . Voltaire said that Hudibras unites the wit of Don Quixote with that of the Satyre Menippée - a com- bination beyond the reach of our painting satirist's art . With respect to the Paintings said to have been the work of ...
... hand to catch . Voltaire said that Hudibras unites the wit of Don Quixote with that of the Satyre Menippée - a com- bination beyond the reach of our painting satirist's art . With respect to the Paintings said to have been the work of ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Academicians admiration Allan Cunningham appears artist beauty British character colour copy Covent Garden Cunningham death drawing Duke Earl early Elgin marbles engraved exclaimed exhibited expression father feeling figure finished Fuseli Fuseli's Gainsborough Gallery Garden Garrick genius guineas hand Harlot's Progress Haydon head Hogarth painted Hogarth's House honour Hudibras J. M. W. TURNER John lady landscape Lawrence's Leslie letter lived London look Lord manner master Michael Angelo mind Miss morning nature never Nichols Northcote painter pencil person picture placed plate Plympton poet portrait possession present Prince purchased Rake's Progress remarkable replied Reynolds's Rome Royal Academy says scene sent Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir Thomas Lawrence Sir Thomas's sitters sitting sketch sold soon style talents taste Thornhill thought tion Titian told took Turner Walpole Wilkes Wilkie William William Hogarth young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 215 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Página 116 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet *, and only took snuff.
Página 314 - ... night, which gathers cold and low, advancing like the shadow of death upon the guilty ' ship as it labours amidst the lightning of the sea, its thin masts written upon the sky in lines of blood, girded with condemnation in that fearful hue which signs the sky with horror, and mixes its flaming flood with the sunlight, — and cast far along the desolate heave of the sepulchral waves, incarnadines the multitudinous sea.
Página 136 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country.
Página 339 - Rising or falling, still advance his praise. His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud; and, wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Página 310 - All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree. Along the crisped shades and bowers Revels the spruce and jocund Spring; The Graces and the rosy-bosomed Hours Thither all their bounties bring.
Página 339 - But yonder comes the powerful king of day. Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.
Página 172 - If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honourable distinction of an English school, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in the history of the art, among the very first of that rising name.
Página 155 - ... fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve, when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appeared not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere.
Página 160 - He went down a few steps, and returned again. ' What use is your book to me if I don't understand it 1 and your lute, you may take it again if you won't teach me to play on it. Come home with me, and give me the first lesson.' 'I will come to-morrow.