 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 528 pages
...wasted life insatiate in experiment. To a capacity which at once penetrated the principle and real aim of the art, he joined an inequality of fancy that...him on the ground to crawl after deformity. We owe to him chiaroscuro with all its magic, but character was bis favourite study ; character he has often... | |
 | Thomas Blore - 1815 - 320 pages
...wasted life insatiate in experiment. To a capacity which at once penetrated the principle and real aim of the art, he joined an inequality of fancy that at one moment lent him wings for the pursuit of be;iuty, and the next flung him on the ground to crawl after deformity. We owe to him chiaroscuro with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 520 pages
...wasted life insatiate in experiment. To a capacity which at once penetrated the principle and real aim of the art, he joined an inequality of fancy that...him on the ground to crawl after deformity. We owe to him chiaroscuro with all its magic, but character was his favourite study ; character he has often... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...wasted life, insatiate in experiment. To a capacity which at once penetrated the principle and real aim of the art, he joined an inequality of fancy that...we owe him caricature with all its incongruities. His notions of the most elaborate finish, and his want of perseverance, were at least equal ; — want... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1833 - 292 pages
...life insatiate in experiment. To a capacity which at once penetrated the principle and real aim of art, he joined an inequality of fancy that at one...we owe him caricature with all its incongruities. His notions of the most elaborate finish and his want of perseverance were at least equal. Want of... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 374 pages
...life insatiate in experiment. To a capacity which at once penetrated the principle and real aim of art, he joined an inequality of fancy that at one...we owe him caricature with all its incongruities. His notions of the most elaborate finish and his want of perseverance were at least equal. Want of... | |
 | Henry Fuseli - 1831 - 404 pages
...wasted life, insatiate, in experiment. To a capacity which at once penetrated the principle and real aim of the art, he joined an inequality of fancy that...we owe him caricature with all its incongruities. His notions of the most elaborate finish and his want of perseverance were at least equal:—want of... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Füssli - 1831 - 420 pages
...wasted life, insatiate, in experiment. To a capacity which at once penetrated the principle and real aim of the art, he joined an inequality of fancy that...we owe him caricature with all its incongruities. His notions of the most elaborate finish and his want of perseverance were at least equal:—want of... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1831 - 292 pages
...penetrated the principle'and real aim of art, he joined an inequality of fancy that at one momejit lent him wings for the pursuit of beauty, and the...we owe him caricature with all its incongruities., His notions of the most elaborate finish and his want of perseverance were at least equal. Want of... | |
 | 1846 - 292 pages
...life insatiate in experiment. To a capacity which at once penetrated the principle and real aim of art, he joined an inequality of fancy that at one...we owe him caricature with all its incongruities. His notions of the most elaborate finish and his want of perseverance were at least equal. Want of... | |
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To a capacity which at once penetrated the principle and real aim of the art, he joined an inequality of fancy that at one moment lent him wings for the pursuit of beauty, and the next flung him on the ground to crawl after deformity : we owe him chiaro-scuro... 
