Historical and literary tour of a foriegner in England and Scotland [from the Fr. of A. Pichot]. |
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... Painters ; Girtin ; Turner ; Con- stable ; Wilkie ; Allan 52 58 67 80 96 ..... 100 LETTER XVI . TO M. P. DE LAROCHE - West ; Fuseli ; Barry ; Haydon ; Westall ; Stothard . 114 LETTER XVII . TO M. LE BARON TAYLOR . Leicester Gallery ...
... Painters ; Girtin ; Turner ; Con- stable ; Wilkie ; Allan 52 58 67 80 96 ..... 100 LETTER XVI . TO M. P. DE LAROCHE - West ; Fuseli ; Barry ; Haydon ; Westall ; Stothard . 114 LETTER XVII . TO M. LE BARON TAYLOR . Leicester Gallery ...
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... painter of common life . We stopped but a short time at Canterbury , whose sublime cathedral I shall take another opportunity of describing . After taking a hasty dinner at Rochester , we pursued our rapid journey to London without ...
... painter of common life . We stopped but a short time at Canterbury , whose sublime cathedral I shall take another opportunity of describing . After taking a hasty dinner at Rochester , we pursued our rapid journey to London without ...
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... painter , it was wished to erect a simple monument to his memory in St. Paul's , and a petition to that effect was addressed to the dean and chapter of the cathedral , who returned for answer , that the honour was taxed at £ 1000 . It ...
... painter , it was wished to erect a simple monument to his memory in St. Paul's , and a petition to that effect was addressed to the dean and chapter of the cathedral , who returned for answer , that the honour was taxed at £ 1000 . It ...
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... painters whose works have been deemed worthy to adorn the walls of palaces . Artists are directed to the scrip- tures as containing an inexhaustible store of sub- jects for pictures , which would be worthy to be consecrated in churches ...
... painters whose works have been deemed worthy to adorn the walls of palaces . Artists are directed to the scrip- tures as containing an inexhaustible store of sub- jects for pictures , which would be worthy to be consecrated in churches ...
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... master . The sculptures of the British Museum , in their present state , are intelligible only to the eyes of the sculptor and the painter . The mass of ob- servers view them only as shapeless fragments of stone , 60 TOUR IN ENGLAND.
... master . The sculptures of the British Museum , in their present state , are intelligible only to the eyes of the sculptor and the painter . The mass of ob- servers view them only as shapeless fragments of stone , 60 TOUR IN ENGLAND.
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 163 - The fishes float with new repaired scale; The adder all her slough away she slings; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale; The busy bee her honey now she mings; Winter is worn that was the flowers
Página 163 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Página 148 - The great east window of the church remains, and connects with the house ; the hall entire, the refectory entire, the cloister untouched, with the ancient cistern of the convent, and their arms on : it has a private chapel quite perfect.
Página 3 - Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes — that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case at least where I have been...
Página 35 - Charles the Second came to London, after a sad and long exile and calamitous suffering both of the King and Church, being seventeen years. This was also his birthday, and with a triumph of above 20,000 horse and foot, brandishing their swords, and shouting with inexpressible joy ; the ways strewed with flowers, the bells ringing, the streets hung with tapestry, fountains running with wine ; the Mayor, Aldermen...
Página 37 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c.
Página 393 - Who is it," said the jealous ruler over the desert encroached upon by the restless foot of English adventure — " who is it that causes this river to rise in the high mountains, and to empty itself into the ocean ? Who is it that causes to blow the loud winds of winter, and that calms them again in the summer?
Página 12 - A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town!
Página 37 - I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust...
Página 36 - Nobles, clad in cloth of silver, gold, and velvet ; the windows and balconies, all set with ladies ; trumpets, music, and myriads of people flocking, even so far as from Rochester, so as they were seven hours in passing the city, even from two in the afternoon till nine at night.