 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1872 - 610 sider
...the attempt to give utterance to the emotion called up by his power; concerning whom Reynolds said, " I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite;" of whom Fuseli wrote, " His women are moulds of generation, his infants teem with the man, his men... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1872 - 628 sider
...the attempt to give utterance to the emotion called up by his power; concerning whom Reynolds said, " I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite ;" of whom Fuseli wrote, " His women are moulds of generation, his infants teem with the man, his men... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 sider
...catch the slightest of his perfections, would be glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man. I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable...sensations as he intended to excite. I reflect, not VOL. n. M without vanity, that these discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1878 - 188 sider
...contentions, and noble well-wishings for the future of the Academy. He closed with the sentence : " 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 ANGELO." Thereupon... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1879 - 196 sider
...contentions, and noble well-wishinga for the future of the Academy. He closed with the sentence : " 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 ANGELO." Thereupon... | |
 | Sir Edward John Poynter (bart.) - 1879 - 306 sider
...attempt to give utterance to the emotion called up by his power. As when Reynolds impressively says, " I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite;" and Fuseli, "His women are moulds of generation, his infants teem with the man, his men are a race... | |
 | Sir Edward John Poynter (bart.) - 1879 - 304 sider
...attempt to give utterance to the emotion called up by his power. As when Reynolds impressively says, "I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite;" and Fuseli, "His women are moulds of generation, his infants teem with the man, his men are a race... | |
 | Clara Erskine Clement Waters - 1887 - 386 sider
...alluded to the recent troubles. He ended by speaking of the great master of the world, and said : " 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 ANGELO." It was... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - 1887 - 488 sider
...with a striking passage : ' I feel a 1 self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such great sensations as he intended to excite. I reflect, not...divine man, and I should desire that the last words I should pronounce in this Academy and from this place should be the name of Michael Angelo.' He came... | |
 | Browning club, Syracuse, N.Y. - 1890 - 120 sider
...autonomic, itself to the end, yet melted and blended gloriously into one. Sir Joshua Reynolds said, " I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of " such sensations as he (Angelo) intended to excite." We may feel self-congratulation if we may find ourselves capable of the... | |
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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.*... 
