The Quarterly Review, Volume 50William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1834 |
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Page 22
... continued spring or of summer may very well suit ve- getable life in Mars , but to that of Earth , either would be destruc- tive . If the wheat ear were to remain exposed to the sun of a six months ' summer , the grain would be reduced ...
... continued spring or of summer may very well suit ve- getable life in Mars , but to that of Earth , either would be destruc- tive . If the wheat ear were to remain exposed to the sun of a six months ' summer , the grain would be reduced ...
Page 57
... continued to in- crease in private favour and public estimation . Many of his pieces , merely contemplated as works of art , afford specimens of drawing , colouring , and composition , well worthy the attention of the pro- fessional ...
... continued to in- crease in private favour and public estimation . Many of his pieces , merely contemplated as works of art , afford specimens of drawing , colouring , and composition , well worthy the attention of the pro- fessional ...
Page 58
... continued , with far inferior talent , to mimic what they could not excel , and to degrade the art into a fashionable mannerism , retaining little interest beyond the occasional celebrity of the beauties and statesmen who employed it ...
... continued , with far inferior talent , to mimic what they could not excel , and to degrade the art into a fashionable mannerism , retaining little interest beyond the occasional celebrity of the beauties and statesmen who employed it ...
Page 64
... continued , with characteristic modesty , to enrich his native country with pic- tures that rival in effect whatever was produced in the Venetian school , while he recommended in his discourses the severer graces of the Roman . For ...
... continued , with characteristic modesty , to enrich his native country with pic- tures that rival in effect whatever was produced in the Venetian school , while he recommended in his discourses the severer graces of the Roman . For ...
Page 66
... and conversation , his pure and modest life , and unrivalled talent , drew round him whatever was worth courting in the society of London , and and beloved in that circle , he continued to adorn 66 Cunningham's Lives of the Painters .
... and conversation , his pure and modest life , and unrivalled talent , drew round him whatever was worth courting in the society of London , and and beloved in that circle , he continued to adorn 66 Cunningham's Lives of the Painters .
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