The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Volumen6J. Murray, 1833 |
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Página 119 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail.
Página 161 - I brought her, gave her to your despairing arms ; Indeed, you thank'd me ; but a nobler gratitude Rose in her soul ; for from that hour she lov'd me, Till for her life she paid me with herself.
Página 27 - Allan ever painted. The subject is the old poetic dream of the origin of painting, or the Corinthian Maid drawing the shadow of her lover. The youth is sitting ; he keeps himself firm with his left hand, extends his right gently round the waist of his mistress, and holds his face in repose ; the maid sits on his knee, places a lamp with a clear steady flame...
Página 252 - It ought, in my opinion, to be indispensably observed, that the masses of light in a picture be always of a warm mellow colour, yellow, red, or a yellowish- white ; and that the blue, the grey, or the green colours be kept almost entirely out of these masses, and be used only to support and set off these warm colours ; and for this purpose, a small proportion of cold colours will be sufficient.
Página 67 - re bit ! ' — He then spoke of his own journey to Rome, of the beauty of the climate, of the manners of the people, of the imposing effect of the Roman Catholic religion, of its favourableness to the fine arts, of the churches full of pictures, of the manner in which he passed his time, studying and looking into all the rooms in the Vatican : he had no fault to find with Italy, and no wish to leave it. ' Gracious and sweet was all he saw in her...
Página 40 - While Peggy laces up her bosom fair, With a blue snood Jenny binds up her hair ; Glaud by his morning ingle takes a beek, The rising sun shines motty through the reek, A pipe his mouth ; the lasses pltase his een, And now and then his joke maun intervene.
Página 125 - ... Cooper, the American, was in Paris at the same time : his looks and manner seemed to announce a much greater man. He strutted through the streets with a very consequential air ; and in company held up his head, screwed up his features, and placed himself on a sort of pedestal to be observed and admired, as if he never relaxed in the assumption nor wished it to be forgotten by others, that he was the * American Sir Walter Scott. The real one never troubled himself about the matter.
Página 127 - I am come to return your sister's umbrella ; I brought it myself that I might have an opportunity of saying that yesterday I thoughtlessly took an unbecoming .liberty with you, which you properly resented. I really am angry with myself, and hope you will forgive me and think no more of it.
Página 104 - The world in general, as Miss Reynolds used to say, with reference to her brother, think no more of a painter than they do of a fiddler or a dancing-master or a piano-fortemaker. And so of a poet. I have always said of that dispute about burying Lord Byron in Poet's Corner, that he would have resisted it violently if he could have known of it.
Página 12 - not much unlike a monkey in the face," some wag, whom he had offended, stuck these lines on his door : — " When a man to a fair for a show brings a lion, 'T is usual a monkey the sign-post to tie on; But here the old custom reversed is seen, For the lion's without, and the monkey's within.