Memoirs of a Picture: Containing the Adventures of Many Conspicuous Characters and Interspersed with a Variety of Amusing Anecdotes of Several Very Extraordinary Personages Connected with the Arts : Including a Genuine Biographical Sketch of that Celebrated Original and Eccentric Genius, the Late Mr. George Morland ... : to which is Added a Copious Appendix, Embracing Every Interesting Subject Relative to Our Justly Admired English Painter and His Most Valuable Works, Volume 2C. Stower, 1805 |
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... received the nuptial benediction accordingly . Soon after these desirable events , for they were both love matches in the strictest sense of the word , our painter produced another pair of charming little pictures , called the Idle ...
... received the nuptial benediction accordingly . Soon after these desirable events , for they were both love matches in the strictest sense of the word , our painter produced another pair of charming little pictures , called the Idle ...
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... received almost every night throughout the winter and spring , from the musical talents of these players . To these places of agrecable resort , in London as well as its suburbs , Morland fre- quently went , staid late , and formed ...
... received almost every night throughout the winter and spring , from the musical talents of these players . To these places of agrecable resort , in London as well as its suburbs , Morland fre- quently went , staid late , and formed ...
Pagina 36
... received for his pictures . A thoughtless imprudent young man , whose ignorance of the crook- ed ways of his own species could only be equalled by his utter contempt of money when he had earned it , could never be sup- . posed to make ...
... received for his pictures . A thoughtless imprudent young man , whose ignorance of the crook- ed ways of his own species could only be equalled by his utter contempt of money when he had earned it , could never be sup- . posed to make ...
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... received from this ill - fated couple , he feels himself happy in this place to avow ; and notwithstanding his constant themes were censure and admonition , neither of which could be very acceptable , especially as coming from a person ...
... received from this ill - fated couple , he feels himself happy in this place to avow ; and notwithstanding his constant themes were censure and admonition , neither of which could be very acceptable , especially as coming from a person ...
Pagina 45
... received of constant employment , at his own prices , and to bé exonerated from all the pecuniary difficulties in which his imprudence had involved him , were equally rendered abor- tive , by the levity and perverseness of his conduct ...
... received of constant employment , at his own prices , and to bé exonerated from all the pecuniary difficulties in which his imprudence had involved him , were equally rendered abor- tive , by the levity and perverseness of his conduct ...
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Memoirs of a Picture: Containing the Adventures of Many ..., Volume 2 William Collins Volledige weergave - 1805 |
Memoirs of a Picture: Containing the Adventures of Many ..., Volume 2 William Collins Volledige weergave - 1805 |
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Pagina 153 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Pagina 156 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Pagina 153 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Pagina 159 - withdraw to a respectful distance ; and should they behold the ruins of genius, or the weak158 ness of an exalted mind, let them be taught to lament — that Nature has left the noblest of her works imperfect.
Pagina 158 - Gothic triumph to those excesses which are the overflowings of faculties they never enjoyed. Perfectly unconscious that they are indebted to their stupidity for the...
Pagina 158 - The gifts of imagination bring the heaviest task upon the vigilance of reason; and to bear those faculties with unerring rectitude, or invariable propriety, requires a degree of firmness and of cool attention, which doth not always attend the higher gifts of the mind. Yet, difficult as nature herself seems to have rendered the...
Pagina 185 - ... surprising for his years ; and it particularly recommended him to the favour of the landgrave of Hesse, who became his patron, and presented him with a sum of money to enable him to go to Rome, where he might improve his promising talents, intending to employ him in hisservice whenever he returned to his own country. On his first entrance into Rome, happening to pass by the arch of Titus, he saw a few young artists attentively engaged in sketching the basso-relievos ; and, observing that grand...
Pagina 74 - When one morning his servant came again, and delivered a message from his master, who waited for an answer at the Cavendish Square Coffee House, the corner of Princes Street. There, in a little back parlour, his friend found him, with a bason of rum and -milk, a large pointer by his side, a Guinea pig in his handkerchief, and a beautiful American squirrel he had just bought for .his wife.
Pagina 231 - Leech" over his own portrait. In slip-case of half red morocco. 2. ACKERMAN (R.). The Microcosm of London. This work already honored by HIS approbation is most humbly dedicated by permission to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, by his grateful and obedient servant, R.
Pagina 176 - It was intended to be used in the senses ascribed to the word in Johnson's Dictionary, viz. " Mental power or faculties. Disposition of nature by which any one is qualified to some peculiar employment. Nature; disposition.