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" In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise... "
The Georgian Era: Political and rural economists. Painters, sculptors ... - Page 157
1834 - 588 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 622 pages
...flowers and festoons about it, and yet the worke was very strong ; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise musical, and very civil, sober, and discreete in his discourse. There was onely an old woman in the house. So desiring leave to visite...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

1818 - 598 pages
...he said £100. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the worke was very strong ; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

English literature - 1818 - 606 pages
...he said £100. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the worke was very strong ; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 19

1819 - 630 pages
...he said £100. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the worke was very strong ; in the peice were more than 100 figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1820 - 422 pages
...chapel of Trinity College, Oxford. He also executed the bronze statue of James II, now in Scotland Yard. and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the worke was very strong; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise...
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The Arts and Artists: Or Anecdotes & Relics, of the Schools of ..., Volume 2

James Elmes - Art - 1825 - 322 pages
...hundred pounds. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about...work was very strong ; in the piece were more than a hundred figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise musical and very civil, sober and discreet. Of...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben ..., Volume 4

Anecdotes - 1826 - 374 pages
...hundred pounds. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about...work was very strong; in the piece were more than a hundred figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise musical and very civil, sober and discreet. Of...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 4

Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1820 - 384 pages
...very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the (lowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong ; in the piece were more than a hundred figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise musical and very civil, sober and discreet. Of...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and ..., Volume 3

Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1830 - 494 pages
...hundred pounds. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being in nature nothing so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about...very civil, sober, and discreet in his discourse. There was only an old woman in his house." The genius of the man, and the gentleness of his manners,...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 3

Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1832 - 332 pages
...hundred pounds. In good earnest, the very frame was worth the money, there being in nature nothing so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about...work was very strong : in the piece were more than a hundred figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise musical ; and very civil, sober, and discreet...
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