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, Volumul 2C. Stower, 1805 |
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... whole fa- mily , with very few exceptions , the name of Morland and singular genius are , and have been , inseparable . The father of our painter , it is well known , was an artist of considerable talent , and much respected by all who ...
... whole fa- mily , with very few exceptions , the name of Morland and singular genius are , and have been , inseparable . The father of our painter , it is well known , was an artist of considerable talent , and much respected by all who ...
Pagina 28
... whole of their stay there , the author and the painter ge- nerally spent their evenings together , and no man gave fairer promises of remaining a good husband , and a sober prudent artist , than Morland . But Mrs. Morland being the far ...
... whole of their stay there , the author and the painter ge- nerally spent their evenings together , and no man gave fairer promises of remaining a good husband , and a sober prudent artist , than Morland . But Mrs. Morland being the far ...
Pagina 39
... whole cata- logue of Morland's errors , was committed by him at this period . - An act which tend- ed as much , if not more , than all his other extravagances put together , to accelerate his ruin ; namely , to feed and lodge a per- son ...
... whole cata- logue of Morland's errors , was committed by him at this period . - An act which tend- ed as much , if not more , than all his other extravagances put together , to accelerate his ruin ; namely , to feed and lodge a per- son ...
Pagina 51
... whole group at one glance declares the scantiness of their food . Th old quilt hung across the garret to hide . the miserable beds , the broken plaster ex- hibiting the laths , the little , ornaments , of fine but broken china displayed ...
... whole group at one glance declares the scantiness of their food . Th old quilt hung across the garret to hide . the miserable beds , the broken plaster ex- hibiting the laths , the little , ornaments , of fine but broken china displayed ...
Pagina 58
... whole family into peculiar protection , her situation might have been as wretched as several other ill - fated females , many of whom can trace the origin of their wretchedness to the same unnaturally pa- rental source . 1 The number of ...
... whole family into peculiar protection , her situation might have been as wretched as several other ill - fated females , many of whom can trace the origin of their wretchedness to the same unnaturally pa- rental source . 1 The number of ...
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Memoirs of a Picture: Containing the Adventures of Many ..., Volumul 2 William Collins Vizualizare completă - 1805 |
Memoirs of a Picture: Containing the Adventures of Many ..., Volumul 2 William Collins Vizualizare completă - 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.