Lights and Shadows of Artist Life and CharacterR. Bentley, 1853 - 416 páginas |
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... sketches of his childhood and the matured produc- tions which subsequently gave their author his title to rank among the masters of his art , as between the silver thread of water welling up on a green hill - side , and the abounding ...
... sketches of his childhood and the matured produc- tions which subsequently gave their author his title to rank among the masters of his art , as between the silver thread of water welling up on a green hill - side , and the abounding ...
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... sketches and drawings not altogether destitute of the genius which distinguished the pro- ductions of his maturer years ; and , in the studio of Francisco de Herrera , exercised his pencil in pourtraying the peasantry in the streets ...
... sketches and drawings not altogether destitute of the genius which distinguished the pro- ductions of his maturer years ; and , in the studio of Francisco de Herrera , exercised his pencil in pourtraying the peasantry in the streets ...
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... for artistic pursuits , by sketching , with the ease and rapidity of a practised hand , the faces of those who passed the shop of the goldsmith to whom he was apprenticed . The casual sight of BIRD, MORLAND, OPIE, CIMA BUE, ETC. ...
... for artistic pursuits , by sketching , with the ease and rapidity of a practised hand , the faces of those who passed the shop of the goldsmith to whom he was apprenticed . The casual sight of BIRD, MORLAND, OPIE, CIMA BUE, ETC. ...
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... sketch , the smile which flickered across the infant's face ; or of that other , to him , memorable circumstance — the exhibition of his sketches - the sketches of a child of eight to the wandering Indians , on the occasion of their ...
... sketch , the smile which flickered across the infant's face ; or of that other , to him , memorable circumstance — the exhibition of his sketches - the sketches of a child of eight to the wandering Indians , on the occasion of their ...
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... sketching with a pointed stick upon the sand of a little stream , which wandered through the pasturage to which he was accustomed to direct his flock . Walpole relates of GRIFFIERE , who was called " the gentleman of Utrecht , " that ...
... sketching with a pointed stick upon the sand of a little stream , which wandered through the pasturage to which he was accustomed to direct his flock . Walpole relates of GRIFFIERE , who was called " the gentleman of Utrecht , " that ...
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Página 58 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate : Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs, You would say it hath been all-in-all his study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle rendered you in music : / Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Página 403 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 197 - As we close it the club-room is before us, and the table on which stands the omelet for Nugent, and the lemons for Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvas of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of...
Página 139 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Página 49 - Born to the spacious empire of the Nine, One would have thought she should have been content To manage well that mighty government ; But what can young ambitious souls confine ? To the next realm she stretched her sway, For Painture near adjoining lay, A plenteous province and alluring prey.
Página 399 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Página 198 - ... wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches ; we see the heavy form rolling ; we hear it puffing ; and then comes the 'Why, sir!
Página 403 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the...
Página 248 - but not before last night. I was walking alone in my garden ; there was great stillness among the branches and flowers, and more than common sweetness in the air. I heard a low and pleasant sound, and I knew not whence it came. At last I saw the broad leaf of a flower move, and underneath I saw a procession of creatures of the size and colour of green and grey grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a roseleaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared. It was a fairy funeral.
Página 198 - There are assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvass of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we...