The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 3J. & J. Harper, 1835 |
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... imagined that he might be equally successful with a figure , and accordingly commissioned him to execute the statue of Charles the Second for the Royal Exchange . Gibbons seems to have had some misgivings in the matter - not so Mr ...
... imagined that he might be equally successful with a figure , and accordingly commissioned him to execute the statue of Charles the Second for the Royal Exchange . Gibbons seems to have had some misgivings in the matter - not so Mr ...
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... us , that the sculptor imagined Handel's finest strains to have been con- ceived amid contortions worthy of the Cumean Sybil . Though every button of his dress seems to have sat for its likeness , and every button - D 2 ROUBILIAC . 41.
... us , that the sculptor imagined Handel's finest strains to have been con- ceived amid contortions worthy of the Cumean Sybil . Though every button of his dress seems to have sat for its likeness , and every button - D 2 ROUBILIAC . 41.
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... to that production , to say nothing of the genius which it presumes to imbody . The same sort of feeling which led him astray in his Handel has bewildered VOL . III - E him here ; he imagined that a great poet necessarily ROUBILIAC . 49.
... to that production , to say nothing of the genius which it presumes to imbody . The same sort of feeling which led him astray in his Handel has bewildered VOL . III - E him here ; he imagined that a great poet necessarily ROUBILIAC . 49.
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Allan Cunningham. him here ; he imagined that a great poet necessarily , in his fits of inspiration , put himself into extravagant attitudes ; that his whole body , like that of Donne's mistress , was instinct with active thought ; and ...
Allan Cunningham. him here ; he imagined that a great poet necessarily , in his fits of inspiration , put himself into extravagant attitudes ; that his whole body , like that of Donne's mistress , was instinct with active thought ; and ...
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... imagined ; he is the common dry- bones of every vulgar tale . It was not so that Milton dealt with this difficult allegory . We are satisfied with the indistinct image which he gives us : " What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly ...
... imagined ; he is the common dry- bones of every vulgar tale . It was not so that Milton dealt with this difficult allegory . We are satisfied with the indistinct image which he gives us : " What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly ...
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