Anecdotes of Painting in England: With Some Account of the Principal Artists; and Incidental Notes on Other Arts, Band 4J. Dodsley, 1786 |
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... give date to the age of em- broidery . Virgil , Longinus ,, and Vitruvius af- ford no rules , no examples , of fcattering finery .. This delicate redundance of ornament grow- ing into our architecture might perhaps be checked , if our ...
... give date to the age of em- broidery . Virgil , Longinus ,, and Vitruvius af- ford no rules , no examples , of fcattering finery .. This delicate redundance of ornament grow- ing into our architecture might perhaps be checked , if our ...
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... give me a lion ; that is fitter for a queen of Swe- den . " I repeat this , without any intention of approving it . It was a pedantic affec tation of fpirit in a woman who had quitted a crown to ramble over Europe in a motley kind of ...
... give me a lion ; that is fitter for a queen of Swe- den . " I repeat this , without any intention of approving it . It was a pedantic affec tation of fpirit in a woman who had quitted a crown to ramble over Europe in a motley kind of ...
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... give place to rifing generations . And indeed the mortality is almoft as rapid . Portraits that coft twenty , thirty , fixty guineas , and that proudly take poffeffion of the drawing- room , give way in the next generation to those of ...
... give place to rifing generations . And indeed the mortality is almoft as rapid . Portraits that coft twenty , thirty , fixty guineas , and that proudly take poffeffion of the drawing- room , give way in the next generation to those of ...
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... s . a yard for the hall at Blenheim , they would allow no more . He had a longer conteft with Mr. Styles , who had agreed to give him 3500 l . 3500 . but not being fatisfied with the execution , Painters in the Reign of George I. 43.
... s . a yard for the hall at Blenheim , they would allow no more . He had a longer conteft with Mr. Styles , who had agreed to give him 3500 l . 3500 . but not being fatisfied with the execution , Painters in the Reign of George I. 43.
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... gives real talents , they break forth in the home- liest school . The shallow waves that rolled under his window taught young Monamy what ocean . what his mafter could not teach him , 56 Painters in the Reign of George I.
... gives real talents , they break forth in the home- liest school . The shallow waves that rolled under his window taught young Monamy what ocean . what his mafter could not teach him , 56 Painters in the Reign of George I.
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Seite 267 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Seite 275 - ... fountains and water-works. If the hill had not ended with the lower garden, and the wall were not bounded by a common way that goes through the park, they might have added a third quarter of all greens ; but this want is supplied by a garden on the other side the house, which is all of that sort, very wild, shady, and adorned with rough rock-work and fountains.
Seite 274 - The cloister facing the south is covered with vines, and would have been proper for an orange-house, and the other for myrtles or other more common greens, and had, I doubt not, been cast for that purpose, if this piece of gardening had been then in as much vogue as it is now.
Seite 287 - At that moment appeared Kent, painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays.
Seite 117 - Eager to get, but not to keep the pelf, A friend to all mankind, except himself.
Seite 86 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Seite 277 - ... there may be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they fail, and it is twenty to one they will , whereas in regular figures it is hard to make any great and remarkable faults.
Seite 307 - It is a garden of oaks two hundred' years old. If there is a fault in fo auguft a fragment of improved nature, it is, that the fize of the trees are out of all proportion to the fhrubs and accompanyments.
Seite 237 - He was not only consulted for furniture, as frames of pictures, glasses, tables, chairs, etc., but for plate, for a barge, for a cradle. And so impetuous was fashion, that two great ladies prevailed on him to make designs for their birthday gowns. The one he dressed in a petticoat decorated with columns of the five orders ; the other like a bronze, in a copper-coloured satin, with ornaments of gold.
Seite 233 - He was a painter, an architect), and the father of modern gardening. In the first character, he was below mediocrity ; in the second, he was a restorer of the science ;. in the last, an original, and the inventor of an art that realizes painting, and improves nature. Mahomet imagined an Elysium, but Kent created many...