| Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1834 - 292 pages
...skill as to likeness that his father usually introduced him to his visiters with " Gentlemen, here's my son, — will you have him recite from the poets, or take your portraits?" The recital of odes, arid the sketching of likenesses, were matters unfavourable to his education,... | |
| Great Britain - 1834 - 614 pages
...purpose of seeing the son of the landlord, who used to introduce him with, " Gentlemen, here he i ; — will you have him recite from the poets, or take your portraits?" Among others, Garrick, Prince Hoare, and Mrs. Siddons, admired his talents for recitation ; and several... | |
| Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1833 - 358 pages
...skill as to likeness, that his father usually introduced him to his visitors with " Gentlemen, here's my son, — will you have him recite from the poets, or take your, portraits ? " The recital of odes, and the sketching of likenesses, were matters unfavourable to his education,... | |
| Henry Bull - Devizes (England) - 1859 - 636 pages
...Collins. He had moreover at this infantine age discovered the faculty of drawing portraits, which he did with such fidelity as to likeness and such rapidity...farmers, on Thursdays, were closing the business of the duy over their brandy and water. These no doubt constituted a large proportion of Mr. Lawrence's most... | |
| Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1859 - 284 pages
...skill as to likeness that his father usually introduced him to his visiters with " Gentlemen, here's my son, — will you have him recite. from the poets, or take your portraits ?" The recital of odes, and the sketching of likenesses, were matters unfavourable to his education,... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Dorset (England) - 1859 - 300 pages
...entertainment of customers. His father would introduce him to his visitors with, " Gentlemen, here's my son ; will you have him recite from the poets, or take your portraits ? " Devizes was the birthplace of Joseph Allein, an eminent non-conformist minister, b. lf.33. He was... | |
| Child rearing - 1868 - 284 pages
...skill as to likeness that his father usually introduced him to his visiters with " Gentlemen, here's my son, — will you have him recite from the poets, or take your portraits ?" The recital of odes, and the sketching of likenesses, were matters unfavourable to his education,... | |
| England - 1888 - 844 pages
...a moment where there had been disgust there was wonder. At the simple talisman, " Gentlemen, here's my son ; will you have him recite from the poets or take your portraits ? " the most confirmed bald-headed grumbler ceased his monotonous drone, and the storm in the coffee-room... | |
| William Outram Tristram - Coaching - 1893 - 402 pages
...a moment where there had been disgust there was wonder. At the simple talisman, " Gentlemen, here's my son ; will you have him recite from the poets or take your portraits ? " the most confirmed bald-headed grumbler ceased his monotonous drone, and the storm in the coffee-room... | |
| William Outram Tristam - Coaching (Transportation) - 1903 - 402 pages
...a moment where there had been disgust there was wonder. At the simple talisman, " Gentlemen, here's my son ; will you have him recite from the poets or take your portraits ? " the most confirmed bald-headed grumbler ceased his monotonous drone, and the storm in the coffee-room... | |
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