 | John Timbs - 1860 - 454 sider
...of them. Sir Joshua concluded the lecture by saying, with great emotion : ' And I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy and from this place might be the name of — K Michael Angelo.' As he descended from the rostrum, Burke went up to him, took his hand, and said,... | |
 | 1883 - 598 sider
...Academy. Sir Joshua concluded it by saying, with great emotion, " And I should desire that the last words I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of Michael Angelo." As he descended from the rostrum Burke went up to him, took his hand and said : " The angel ended,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 sider
...address, in which he expressed his enthusiastic admiration of Buonarotti, saying : " I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name.of Michael Angelo." Sir Joshua died, after a confinement of three months, on the 23d of iv. 2... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1864 - 302 sider
...sentence which pointed to the man whose works through life he had -loved to study : " I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy,...and from this place, might be the name of Michael Angela." Growing infirmities led to his final resignation ; and a failure of sight put an end to those... | |
 | John Timbs - 1865 - 348 sider
...these discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this academy...this place might be the name of — Michael Angelo." As Sir Joshua left the chair, Burke went up to him and said, The angel ended, and in Adam's ear So... | |
 | 1865 - 1022 sider
...discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man, and I should desire that the best words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and...this place, might be the name of Michael Angelo." These were Sir Joshua's last words, and they were simply worthy of the speaker and his'subject. There... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie, Tom Taylor - 1865 - 676 sider
...bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should desire that the last words I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of MICHAEL ANG-ELO." As Reynolds descended from the chair, Burke stepped forward, and taking his hand, held it while he... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1867 - 456 sider
...the study of the works, and spirit, of the mightiest and greatest of artists : " I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this LIEBEB: Inaugural Discourse before Columbia College. place, might be the name of Michael Angelo." In... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 sider
...these discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy,...this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO. XLII. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 1729—1774. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, born 1729, at Pallasmore, in County Longford,... | |
 | Frederick Peter Seguier - 1870 - 346 sider
...who, when resigning the chair at the Academy through declining health, said: 'I should desire that thf last words which I should pronounce in this Academy,...from this place, might be the name of Michael Angelo ' ? At the present day, a very different sentiment frequently prevails ; some of our largest collectors... | |
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I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite. I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should desire that the last words... 
