| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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