 | 1811 - 696 pages
...bleffed with feeing and ftudying thefe emanations of genius at an earlier period of life, the fcntiment of their pre-eminence would have animated all my exertions; and more character, and expreflion, and life, would have pervaded all my humble attempts in hiftorical painting. Let us fuppofe... | |
 | 1811 - 694 pages
...bleflcd with feeing and ftudying thefe emanations of genius at an earlier period of life, the fentiment of their" pre-eminence would have animated all my exertions ; and more character, and expreffion, and life, would have pervaded all my humble attempts in liiftorical painting. Let us fuppofe... | |
 | Thomas Bruce Earl of Elgin - 1815 - 126 pages
...your Lordship, for bringing those marbles to England, and giving me the opportunity of studying them. Had I been blessed with seeing and studying these...pervaded all my humble attempts in Historical Painting. Let us suppose a young man at this time in London endowed with powers such as enabled Michael Angelo... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 834 pages
...forms, as far as he was capable nf catching them, into his ow n compositions ; and he adds : — ' Had I been blessed with seeing and studying these...in historical painting.' — Pursuits, pp. 54, 55. We cannot refuse ourselves the pleasure of extracting another passage of his letter, in which this... | |
 | John Smythe Memes - 1831 - 326 pages
...so distinguished in your collection,' — (the Phidian Marbles of the Parthenon.) ' Had I been blest with seeing and studying these emanations of genius...character, and expression, and life, would have pervaded my humble attempts at historical painting.' It is the soundness and regularity of principle expressed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 594 pages
...and forms, as far as he was capable of catching them, into his own compositions : and he adds — ' Had I been blessed with seeing and studying these...historical painting'. — (Pursuits, pp. 54, 55.) We cannot refuse ourselves the pleasure of extracting another passage of his letter, in which this... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 pages
...distinguished in the collection of marbles obtained by the noble lord. "Had I been blest," says the artist, "with seeing and studying these emanations of genius...character, and expression, and life, would have pervaded my humble attempts at historical paintingt." The genius of Wilkie does honour to our country, and has... | |
 | Amos Dean - 1869 - 652 pages
...deficiency, when in addressing Lord Elgin on the Phidiau Marbles of the Parthenon, he says: "Had I been blest with seeing and studying these emanations of genius,...character, and expression, and life, would have pervaded my humble attempts at historical painting." In perfect consistency with this it has been remarked that... | |
 | 512 pages
...return my sincere thanks, for the means you have afforded me of adding my name to that of Phidias. . . . Had I been blessed with seeing and studying these...pre-eminence would have animated all my exertions; and the more character, and expression, and life, would have pervaded all my humble attempts in Historical... | |
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Had I been blessed with seeing and studying these emanations of genius at an earlier period of life, the sentiment of their preeminence would have animated all my exertions ; and more character, and expression, and life, would have pervaded all my humble... 