 | John Gould - 1838 - 432 sider
...exquisite grace of Correggio and Parmegiano, all disappear before them. ***** " I feel a self-grat,ilation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he...without vanity, that these discourses bear testimony to my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should desire that the last words which I should... | |
 | 1843 - 1278 sider
...was born in the same age with that painter." — " I feel a self- congratulation," adds Sir Joshua, " in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite. I reflect, not without ranity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 sider
...of Michael Angelo." Sir Joshua Reynolds, two centuries later, declared to the British Institution, " I feel a selfcongratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite." A man of such habits and such deeds, made good his pretensions to a perception and to delineation of... | |
 | 1866 - 956 sider
...part of this memorable dis-course consists of a eulogium on Michael Angelo : — its last passage — "I reflect, not •without vanity, that these discourses...•divine man, and I should desire that the last words I should pronounce in this Academy, «nd from this place, might be the name of MICHAEL ANGKLO." " As... | |
 | William King Tweedie - 1864 - 482 sider
...of the sad words with which this man approached the tomb. A great artist* in our country could say, '-"I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself...capable of such sensations as he intended to excite, .... and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce .... from this place might be... | |
 | 1865 - 1022 sider
...to his memory by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in his last discourse before the Royal Academy, when he said " I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable...that truly divine man, and I should desire that the best words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of Michael... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie, Tom Taylor - 1865 - 676 sider
...of this memorable Discourse consists of an eulogium on Michael Angelo, — its last passage : — " I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses...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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1865 - 348 sider
...Joshua concluded his discourse with these emphatic words. Speaking of Michael Angelo, he said : — " I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as lie intended to excite. I reflect, not without vanity, that these discourses bear testimony of my admiration... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie - 1870 - 386 sider
...we derive from the works of a great painter. " I feel," said Reynolds, speaking of Michael Angelo, " a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite." But neither at the theatre nor before a picture should we feel in this way, were we for a moment to... | |
 | 1876 - 616 sider
...Sir Joshua Reynolds, in his final lecture at the Royal Academy, " a self-congratulation in feeling myself capable of such sensations as he intended to...excite. I reflect, not without vanity, that these lectures bear testimony to that truly divine man, and I desire that the last words which I pronounce... | |
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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 which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO.*... 
