The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1859 |
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... fame , for those days of toil and nights of study , in which he painted and pored over history , sacred and profane , and he closed his eyes on all else save elaborate outlines and the effect of light and shade . He was now moving in ...
... fame , for those days of toil and nights of study , in which he painted and pored over history , sacred and profane , and he closed his eyes on all else save elaborate outlines and the effect of light and shade . He was now moving in ...
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... fame too easily - it was not purchased by long study and many trials — and he rashly imagined him- self capable of any thing . But the coldness of his imagination nipped the blossoms of history . It is the province of art to elevate the ...
... fame too easily - it was not purchased by long study and many trials — and he rashly imagined him- self capable of any thing . But the coldness of his imagination nipped the blossoms of history . It is the province of art to elevate the ...
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... fame , and perhaps fortune , lay open before him . Burke had praised his works , and assured him of his protection ... fame I may have in the world . " Sudden success unsettled him for a time ; the fame of his work brought a crowd of ...
... fame , and perhaps fortune , lay open before him . Burke had praised his works , and assured him of his protection ... fame I may have in the world . " Sudden success unsettled him for a time ; the fame of his work brought a crowd of ...
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... fame was yet to make , and his character was much in those men's power , and he was made to feel it . Sly old antiquarians cunningly inveigled him into conversation , and exhibited him to the English travellers , as , heated with ...
... fame was yet to make , and his character was much in those men's power , and he was made to feel it . Sly old antiquarians cunningly inveigled him into conversation , and exhibited him to the English travellers , as , heated with ...
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... fame , and the same agitations and passions here that you have experienced in Italy ; and if they have the same effect on your temper , they will have just the same effects on your interest ; and be your merit what it will , you will ...
... fame , and the same agitations and passions here that you have experienced in Italy ; and if they have the same effect on your temper , they will have just the same effects on your interest ; and be your merit what it will , you will ...
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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 126 - What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee...
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 131 - 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 126 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire 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?
Seite 150 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning...
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 141 - Colouring does not depend on where the Colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on Form or Outline. On where that is put; where that is wrong, the Colouring never can be right; and it is always wrong in Titian and Correggio, Rubens and Rembrandt.
Seite 232 - Peter's, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramante and his successors, he concentrated ; suspended the cupola, and to the most complex gave the air of the most simple of edifices.
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 143 - The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations: as one age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight, but to immortals only the same; for we see the same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men; nothing new occurs in identical existence; Accident ever varies, Substance can never suffer change nor decay. Of Chaucer's characters, as described in his Canterbury Tales...