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But though deterred for the time , Mr. Gleig's passion had its way in the end ; for when the work of M. Brialmont , a Belgian officer , appeared to him ( after the Duke's death ) to steer between the ' wild ' criticisms of French ...
But though deterred for the time , Mr. Gleig's passion had its way in the end ; for when the work of M. Brialmont , a Belgian officer , appeared to him ( after the Duke's death ) to steer between the ' wild ' criticisms of French ...
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The criticism is a mistake . Titian , Vandyke , and Reynolds did not gain their pre - eminence because they were great flatterers , but because they were great painters . Nor in ennobling countenances were they influenced by the sordid ...
The criticism is a mistake . Titian , Vandyke , and Reynolds did not gain their pre - eminence because they were great flatterers , but because they were great painters . Nor in ennobling countenances were they influenced by the sordid ...
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An accusation which is unsupported by a tittle of trustworthy evidence is simply slander . Most of the criticism which has been directed against the Discourses themselves appears to us to be unimportant or un- sound .
An accusation which is unsupported by a tittle of trustworthy evidence is simply slander . Most of the criticism which has been directed against the Discourses themselves appears to us to be unimportant or un- sound .
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The critic confounds the recommendation to study the great masters with the recom- mendation to become a painter of the same class of pictures . The doctrine of Reynolds was that those who knew their profession from principles could ...
The critic confounds the recommendation to study the great masters with the recom- mendation to become a painter of the same class of pictures . The doctrine of Reynolds was that those who knew their profession from principles could ...
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The rough criticisms of Reynolds were the occasional outbreaks of irritation , but the caustic sarcasms of Northcote were the deliberate habit of his mind . charge 6 charge . Romney was a person of morbid sensitiveness 132 Life of Sir ...
The rough criticisms of Reynolds were the occasional outbreaks of irritation , but the caustic sarcasms of Northcote were the deliberate habit of his mind . charge 6 charge . Romney was a person of morbid sensitiveness 132 Life of Sir ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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