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Pagina 8
... head I ever tried to paint was an old woman with the upper part of the face shaded by her bonnet , and I certainly laboured it with great perseverance . It took me numberless sittings to do it . I have it by me still , and sometimes ...
... head I ever tried to paint was an old woman with the upper part of the face shaded by her bonnet , and I certainly laboured it with great perseverance . It took me numberless sittings to do it . I have it by me still , and sometimes ...
Pagina 9
... head at all like Rembrandt in a year , in my life - time , it would be glory and felicity , and wealth and fame enough for me ! The head I had seen at Burleigh was an exact and wonderful fac- simile of nature , and I resolved to make ...
... head at all like Rembrandt in a year , in my life - time , it would be glory and felicity , and wealth and fame enough for me ! The head I had seen at Burleigh was an exact and wonderful fac- simile of nature , and I resolved to make ...
Pagina 18
... head in a picture can never reconcile himself to a print from it but to the ignorant they are both the same . a vulgar eye there is no difference between a Guido and a daub , between a penny - print or the vilest scrawl , and the most ...
... head in a picture can never reconcile himself to a print from it but to the ignorant they are both the same . a vulgar eye there is no difference between a Guido and a daub , between a penny - print or the vilest scrawl , and the most ...
Pagina 20
... heads ( in the gracious kind ) , had a delicacy in them peculiar to himself , and almost more than human . But I must not multiply instances . Parmegiano is one that alone takes in all the several kinds of variation , and all the ...
... heads ( in the gracious kind ) , had a delicacy in them peculiar to himself , and almost more than human . But I must not multiply instances . Parmegiano is one that alone takes in all the several kinds of variation , and all the ...
Pagina 21
... heads were said to have come near to Rembrandt's , and he was the undoubted prototype of Sir Joshua Reynolds's style . Yet his name has scarcely been heard of ; and his reputation , like his works , never extended beyond his own county ...
... heads were said to have come near to Rembrandt's , and he was the undoubted prototype of Sir Joshua Reynolds's style . Yet his name has scarcely been heard of ; and his reputation , like his works , never extended beyond his own county ...
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Pagina 39 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Pagina 179 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Pagina 123 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Pagina 178 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed...
Pagina 391 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Pagina 178 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Pagina 175 - Saturn laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell: Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor...
Pagina 192 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole City to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone...
Pagina 178 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Pagina 233 - Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.