Memoirs of picture: containing the adventures of many conspicuous characters, including a biographical sketch of G. Morland. 3 vols. [the 2nd entitled Memoirs of a painter]. |
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Side 210
... Carty - what the devil makes you look so plaguy glum for ? Why , now , I suppose you think I brushed to shy you for the little business between us . " Here the other exclaimed- " Little , do you call it ! " Morland- " A milk - score ...
... Carty - what the devil makes you look so plaguy glum for ? Why , now , I suppose you think I brushed to shy you for the little business between us . " Here the other exclaimed- " Little , do you call it ! " Morland- " A milk - score ...
Side 211
... Carty , no non- sense - come , tip us your mauley - no ma- lice , here's t'ye . ' The hope of possessing three pictures , and four or five large bumpers by this time . having taken possession of Carty's head , and his heart feeling ...
... Carty , no non- sense - come , tip us your mauley - no ma- lice , here's t'ye . ' The hope of possessing three pictures , and four or five large bumpers by this time . having taken possession of Carty's head , and his heart feeling ...
Side 212
... Carty slipped half - a- crown into his hand , and , in a whisper , asked how many pictures his master had upon the finish ? The man , who , accord- ing to his own story , smoked the business , answered readily , " Three or four , master ...
... Carty slipped half - a- crown into his hand , and , in a whisper , asked how many pictures his master had upon the finish ? The man , who , accord- ing to his own story , smoked the business , answered readily , " Three or four , master ...
Side 213
... Carty entered into the spirit of the treat , and they all got , to use poor George's phrase , gloriously swipey . " During the greatest part of the time these jolly dogs were sacrificing to Bacchus , Klob and the painter's man were very ...
... Carty entered into the spirit of the treat , and they all got , to use poor George's phrase , gloriously swipey . " During the greatest part of the time these jolly dogs were sacrificing to Bacchus , Klob and the painter's man were very ...
Side 214
... Carty , with the bill in his hand for their night's enter- tainment , supper and all included . At the top of the bill stood Carty's name , at full length , and place of abode , debtor to such- a - one , for ale , punch , supper , wine ...
... Carty , with the bill in his hand for their night's enter- tainment , supper and all included . At the top of the bill stood Carty's name , at full length , and place of abode , debtor to such- a - one , for ale , punch , supper , wine ...
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able abode acquaintance admirable amongst appears artist beautiful brother called Camden Town Carty CHAP charming colouring companion consequence Covent Garden dæmon Dean Street door drawing ductions easel East Sheen elegant exertion expence extravagance fame father figures finished frequently gemmen genius gentleman George Morland Gerrard Street guineas habit hand Hobbima honour horse inimitable justly Kentish Town Klob labour lady landscape late latter liberality little picture living lodgings master melancholy Memoir ment merit Morland family Nancy Ward natural neat never Newfoundland dog observed occasion Paddington painted painter painting-room pair pencil person pigs poor George poor Morland Portland Street prints engraved procure productions readers ready received respecting Samuel Morland scene servant shew sketch smock-frock sold Somerset House soon spirit stable talents taste ther thing tion tleman took town tures Ward Warren Place whole wine young
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Side 153 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life, Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Side 156 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Side 158 - Golhs in power; yet let it also be remembered, that " The gifts of imagination bring the heaviest task upon the vigilance of reason; and to bear those faculties with unerring rectitude or invariable propriety, requires a degree of firmness and of cool attention, which doth not always attend the higher gifts of the mind. Yet difficult as nature herself seems to have rendered the task of regularity to genius, it is the supreme consolation of dullness and of folly to point with Gothic triumph to those...
Side 185 - Rome, where he might improve his promising talents, intending to employ him in hisservice whenever he returned to his own country. On his first entrance into Rome, happening to pass by the arch of Titus, he saw a few young artists attentively engaged in sketching the basso-relievos ; and, observing that grand monument of antiquity to have a picturesque appearance, he requested a crayon and paper from one of the students, and in half an hour produced a design, finished with incredible correctness...
Side 231 - HIS approbation is most humbly dedicated by permission to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, by his grateful and obedient servant, R.
Side 176 - It was intended to be used in the senses ascribed to the word in Johnson's Dictionary, viz. " Mental power or faculties. Disposition of nature by which any one is qualified to some peculiar employment. Nature; disposition.
Side 158 - Gothic triumph to those excesses which are the overflowings of faculties they never enjoyed. Perfectly unconscious that they are indebted to their stupidity for the consistency of their conduct, they plume themselves on an imaginary virtue, which has its origin in what is really their disgrace. Let such, if such dare approach the shrine of...
Side 186 - Bentvogel society of painters at Rome called him Mercurius. He studied every object after nature — the sites of his landscapes, the cattle, ruins, buildings, figures, rocks, and rivers; and, to enliven his imagination, he chose to live at Tivoli, which furnished him with a lovely variety. It was...
Side 156 - This relation will not be wholly without its use if those who languish under any part of his sufferings shall be enabled to fortify their patience by reflecting that they feel only those afflictions from which the abilities of Savage did not exempt him ; or...
Side 188 - ... superior to the Bassans, who introduce repeatedly the same objects, and the same figures and cattle, in almost every one of their designs. "As an instance of the incredible power of Roos in execution and invention, it is recorded, that the Imperial Ambassador, Count...