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... possessed for design ; neither menaces nor chastisements could deter him from covering his school - books with the scrawls which his fancy dictated ; and the rector of the college , finding it hopeless to prolong the contest between the ...
... possessed for design ; neither menaces nor chastisements could deter him from covering his school - books with the scrawls which his fancy dictated ; and the rector of the college , finding it hopeless to prolong the contest between the ...
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... possessed some skill as a painter upon glass . When not more than seven or eight years old , the youthful artist was accustomed , we are told , to trace all sorts of figures on the walls . of his father's house ; and these juvenile ...
... possessed some skill as a painter upon glass . When not more than seven or eight years old , the youthful artist was accustomed , we are told , to trace all sorts of figures on the walls . of his father's house ; and these juvenile ...
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... possessed a mind which craved acquaintanceship with the abstract sciences . Out of his slender earnings he contrived to buy a few books which treated of mathematics , architecture , and perspective , and by the aid of these , and the ...
... possessed a mind which craved acquaintanceship with the abstract sciences . Out of his slender earnings he contrived to buy a few books which treated of mathematics , architecture , and perspective , and by the aid of these , and the ...
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... possessed in his seven years old son , we must not feel surprised . The Spanish Viceroy condescended to inspect the work , and pronounced it to be very good ; and he added some more substantial expres- sions of his satisfaction by the ...
... possessed in his seven years old son , we must not feel surprised . The Spanish Viceroy condescended to inspect the work , and pronounced it to be very good ; and he added some more substantial expres- sions of his satisfaction by the ...
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... pursuit of his pro- fession by day with the study and composition of Latin poetry by night . BARTHOLOMEW VANDERHELST possessed a happy talent for extemporising little dramas D3 FRANQUAERT, DE LAAR, KOEBERGER, ETC. 57 ...
... pursuit of his pro- fession by day with the study and composition of Latin poetry by night . BARTHOLOMEW VANDERHELST possessed a happy talent for extemporising little dramas D3 FRANQUAERT, DE LAAR, KOEBERGER, ETC. 57 ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...