The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Table talk and Conversations of James Northcote, esq., R.AJ. M. Dent & Company, 1903 - English essays |
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... head I ever tried to paint was an old woman with the upper part of the face shaded by her bonnet , and I certainly laboured it with great perseverance . It took me numberless sittings to do it . I have it by me still , and sometimes ...
... head I ever tried to paint was an old woman with the upper part of the face shaded by her bonnet , and I certainly laboured it with great perseverance . It took me numberless sittings to do it . I have it by me still , and sometimes ...
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... head at all like Rembrandt in a year , in my life - time , it would be glory and felicity , and wealth and fame enough for me ! The head I had seen at Burleigh was an exact and wonderful fac- simile of nature , and I resolved to make ...
... head at all like Rembrandt in a year , in my life - time , it would be glory and felicity , and wealth and fame enough for me ! The head I had seen at Burleigh was an exact and wonderful fac- simile of nature , and I resolved to make ...
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... head in a picture can never reconcile himself to a print from it but to the ignorant they are both the same . a vulgar eye there is no difference between a Guido and a daub , between a penny - print or the vilest scrawl , and the most ...
... head in a picture can never reconcile himself to a print from it but to the ignorant they are both the same . a vulgar eye there is no difference between a Guido and a daub , between a penny - print or the vilest scrawl , and the most ...
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... heads ( in the gracious kind ) , had a delicacy in them peculiar to himself , and almost more than human . But I must not multiply instances . Parmegiano is one that alone takes in all the several kinds of variation , and all the ...
... heads ( in the gracious kind ) , had a delicacy in them peculiar to himself , and almost more than human . But I must not multiply instances . Parmegiano is one that alone takes in all the several kinds of variation , and all the ...
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... heads were said to have come near to Rembrandt's , and he was the undoubted prototype of Sir Joshua Reynolds's style . Yet his name has scarcely been heard of ; and his reputation , like his works , never extended beyond his own county ...
... heads were said to have come near to Rembrandt's , and he was the undoubted prototype of Sir Joshua Reynolds's style . Yet his name has scarcely been heard of ; and his reputation , like his works , never extended beyond his own county ...
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Page 396 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Page 178 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed...
Page 179 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page 123 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 393 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Page 180 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 39 - Merciful heaven ! What, man ? ne'er pull your hat upon your brows ; Give sorrow words : the grief, that does not speak, Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 367 - Vice thus abused, demands a nation's care ; This calls the Church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well...
Page 295 - Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
Page 99 - But he, his own affections' counsellor, Is to himself — I will not say, how true — • But to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.