The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 2Harper, 1833 |
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... wild sermon instead of rebuke brought praise , warmly supported the be- lief of the credulous Quaker , and desired him to watch over his son with more than ordinary solici- tude . " For a child , " said he , " sent into the world under ...
... wild sermon instead of rebuke brought praise , warmly supported the be- lief of the credulous Quaker , and desired him to watch over his son with more than ordinary solici- tude . " For a child , " said he , " sent into the world under ...
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... wild Americans have both taste and skill . They showed him some of their own workmanship , and taught him how to prepare the red and yellow colours with which they stained their weapons ; to these his mother added indigo , and thus he ...
... wild Americans have both taste and skill . They showed him some of their own workmanship , and taught him how to prepare the red and yellow colours with which they stained their weapons ; to these his mother added indigo , and thus he ...
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... wild men more savage than they , had done their worst , Halket was not without hopes of finding the re- mains of his father and his brother , as an Indian warrior assured him that he had seen an elderly officer drop dead beneath a large ...
... wild men more savage than they , had done their worst , Halket was not without hopes of finding the re- mains of his father and his brother , as an Indian warrior assured him that he had seen an elderly officer drop dead beneath a large ...
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... wild Indians , the passionate grief of the son , and the sympathy of his companions , said , he conceived it would form a picture full of dignity and sentiment . His lordship thought otherwise . The subject which genius chooses for ...
... wild Indians , the passionate grief of the son , and the sympathy of his companions , said , he conceived it would form a picture full of dignity and sentiment . His lordship thought otherwise . The subject which genius chooses for ...
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... wild savage ; and West , perceiving the unfavourable impression , proceeded to remove it . He described the Mohawks 66 -the natural elegance and admirable symmetry of their persons - the elasticity of their limbs , and their motions ...
... wild savage ; and West , perceiving the unfavourable impression , proceeded to remove it . He described the Mohawks 66 -the natural elegance and admirable symmetry of their persons - the elasticity of their limbs , and their motions ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admired Amelia Opie appeared artist Barry Barry's beauty Benjamin West Bird Blake brethren Burke called character colours companion compositions copy death Domenichino drawing easel eminent engravings excellence exclaimed exhibited eyes fame fancy father feeling Felpham finished formed fortune friends Fuseli gallery genius GEORGE MORLAND grace grave guineas hand happy Hassell Henry Fuseli historical honour imagination imbodied invention kind King labour lived London looked Lord Lord Grosvenor Majesty master merit Michael Angelo Milton mind Morland nation nature never Opie original painter painting pencil person picture Pindar poet poetic poetry portrait praise Prince Hoare productions Quaker racter Raphael Rembrandt Reynolds Rome Royal Academy says scene seemed Shakspeare Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Sistine Chapel sketches skill spirit talents taste temper thing thought tion Titian tures visions West wife wild wish Wolcot young
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Seite 130 - PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me : "Pipe a song about a Lamb !
Seite 130 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Seite 126 - TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forest of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the ardour of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire — What the hand dare seize the fire ? And what shoulder, and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart ? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand form'd...
Seite 142 - This is an awful thing to say to oil painters ; they may call it madness, but it is true. All the genuine old little pictures, called cabinet pictures, are in fresco and not in oil.
Seite 144 - How do we distinguish the oak from the beech, the horse from the ox, but by the bounding outline? How do we distinguish one face or countenance from another, but by the bounding line and its infinite inflexions and movements?
Seite 131 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read ' — So he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear.
Seite 125 - Whether in heaven ye wander fair Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air, Where the melodious winds have birth...
Seite 149 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
Seite 102 - ... the meaner sort of painters, who counterfeit only such faces as are set before them, and the more excellent, who, having no law but wit, bestow that in colours upon you which is fittest for the eye to see...
Seite 31 - Forty years intercourse, we might almost say friendship, confirmed to the painter the accuracy of these words. "The king received West with easy frankness, assisted him to place the Agrippina in a favourable light, removed the attendants, and brought in the queen, to whom he presented our quaker. He related to her majesty the history of the picture, and bade her notice the simplicity of the design and the beauty of the colouring. ' There is another noble Roman subject...