 | Marie Liechtenstein - 1874
...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, and from this place, might be the name of MICHEL AXGELO." l Reynolds thus made the great Italian's name as an epitaph to his own public life.... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1888
...Michael- Angelo, to '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,...and from this place, might be the name of Michael- Angela' 1 Mr. Symonds arrives at precisely the same conclusion when he selects Michael- Angelo as the... | |
 | Louis Viardot - 1877 - 467 sider
...concluded by expatiating upon the genius of his favourite master, adding — " I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of Michelangelo." On the 23rd of February, 1792, Sir Joshua expired, without any visible symptoms of pain,... | |
 | Louis Viardot - 1877 - 467 sider
...concluded by expatiating upon the genius of his favourite master, adding — " I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of Michelangelo." On the 23rd of February, 1792, Sir Joshua expired, without any visible symptoms of pain,... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1878 - 176 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 ANGELO." Thereupon Edmund Burke advanced from the crowded and brilliant audience, and, grasping his hand, repeated... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1879
...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 ANGELO." Thereupon Edmund Burke advanced from the crowded and brilliant audience, and, grasping his hand, repeated... | |
 | Frederick Sanders Pulling - 1880 - 116 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." And these were the last words Sir Joshua was to utter from the chair he had so adorned, for though... | |
 | N. D'Anvers - 1882 - 672 sider
...concluded by expatiating upon the genius of his favourite master, adding — " I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of Michelangelo." On the 23rd of February, 1792, Sir Joshua expired, without any visible symptoms of pain,... | |
 | Joseph William Comyns Carr - 1883
...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." These eloquent sentences were, indeed, the last public utterance of their author. Within fourteen months... | |
 | Nancy R E. Bell - 1883
...concluded by expatiating upon the genius of his favourite master, adding — " I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of Michelangelo." On the 23rd of February, 1792, Sir Joshua expired, without any visible symptoms of pain,... | |
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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... 
