A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume 2R. Jennings, and J. Major, 1829 |
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Pagina 245 - Hâtez-vous lentement ; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le métier remettez votre ouvrage : Polissez-le sans cesse et le repolissez ; Ajoutez quelquefois, et souvent effacez.
Pagina 75 - It is really impossible to describe many of them in terms of adequate praise. The downy plum is almost bursting with ripeness: the butterfly's wings seem to be in tremulous motion, while they dazzle you by their varied lustre: the hairy insect puts every muscle and fibre into action, as he insinuates himself within the curling of the crisped leaves; while these leaves are sometimes glittering with dew, or coated with the finest down. The flowers and the vegetables are equally admirable, and equally...
Pagina 75 - ... surface of the colouring. Yet, as being ideal personages, my eye hastily glided off them to gaze upon the illustrious lady by.' whose orders and at whose expense, these figures were executed. It is upon the DUCHESS that I fix my eye, and lavish my commendations. Look at her, as you here behold her.* Her gown is brown and gold, trimmed with dark brown fur. Her hair is brown. Her necklace is composed of coloured jewels. Her cheek has a fresh tint ; and the missal upon which her eyes •re bent...
Pagina 229 - « Open that door, Sir, you will find him in the next room. » The door is immediately opened — and there sits the son, surrounded by, and almost imprisoned in, papers and books. His pen is in his hand: his spectacles are upon his nose: and he is transcribing or re-casting some precious little bit of bibliographical intelligence; while, on looking up and receiving you, he seems to be
Pagina 243 - Thouvenin is the artist in whose charcoal furnace, the tools, which produced this echantillon, were heated. I have no hesitation in saying, that, considered as an extraordinary specimen of art, it is a failure. The ornaments are common place ; the lining is decidedly bad ; and there is a clumsiness of finish throughout the whole. The head-bands — as indeed are those of...
Pagina 388 - ... Bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque Tour in France and Germany" [Vol. III (1820) p. 53] folgendermassen über das Protokoll aus: „However, of other Mss. you will I am sure give me credit for having examined the celebrated depositions in the lawsuit between Fust [soll heissen Dritzehen!] and Gutemberg — so intimately connected with the history of early printing and so copiously treated upon by recent bibliographers .. . .— I own that I inspected these depositions (in the Gerrnan...
Pagina 75 - ... ornamented art. The cloth upon the table is dark crimson. The Calendar follows ; in which, in one of the winter months, we observe a very puerile imitation of flakes of snow falling over the figures and the landscape below. The calendar occupies a space of about six inches by four, completely enclosed by a coloured margin. Then begins a series of the most beautiful ornaments of FLOWERS, FRUITS, INSECTS, &c. for which the illuminators of this period were often eminently distinguished. These ornaments...
Pagina 230 - The luxurious English Bibliographer is astonished at the publication of the " Manuel" without the accompaniment of Plates, Fac-similes, Vignettes, and other graphic attractions. It is because intrinsic merit is preferable to form and ornament: is never therefore digressive; having only a simple tale to tell, and that talc...
Pagina 76 - ... the hairy insect puts every muscle and fibre into action, as he insinuates himself within the curling of the crisped leaves ; while these leaves are sometimes glittering with dew, or coated with the finest down. The flowers and the vegetables are equally admirable, and equally true to nature. To particularize would be endless. Assuredly these efforts of art have no rival of their kind.
Pagina 242 - I1 dit, et secouant le joug de la manie . . . tooling to excess. His ornaments are too minute and too profuse ; and moreover, occasionally, very unskilfully worked. His choice of morocco is not always to my taste; while his joints are neither carefully measured, nor do they play easily; and his linings are often gaudy to excess. He is...