 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 482 sider
...of Michelangelo." Sir Joshua Reynolds, two centuries later, declared to the British Institution, " I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite." It will be readily conceded that a man of such habits and such deeds made good his pretensions to a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 490 sider
...Reynolds, two centuries later, declared to the British Institution, " I feel a self -congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite." It will be readily conceded that a man of such habits and such deeds made good his pretensions to a... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1906 - 362 sider
...from the first sight of his works he had felt a profound homage ; the last sentence of which 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." Unnerved... | |
 | George Clausen - 1906 - 216 sider
...consistency. No one can read his last discourse, especially the concluding passage, where he says, " I feel a selfcongratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as Michelangelo intended to excite," without feeling his absolute sincerity ; and it is evident that Reynolds,... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann - 1909 - 562 sider
...catch the slightest of his perfections, would IK- glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man. I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable...testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man; aud I should desire 1784] that the lost words which I should proiiouncc in this Academy, and from this... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 sider
...perfections, would be glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man. I feel a self congratulation 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... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1913 - 580 sider
...Royal Academy and a review of the scope of the Discourses, ending with an eulogium on Michel Angelo : I reflect not without vanity that these Discourses...desire that the last words which I should pronounce hi this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of MICHEL ANGELO. Burke, who was in the president's... | |
 | Joseph Comyns Carr - 1917 - 474 sider
...perfections would be glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man. I feel a self congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he...without vanity, that these discourses bear testimony to my admiration of that truly distinguished man, and I should desire that the last *•• • »... | |
 | Joseph Comyns Carr - 1917 - 480 sider
...perfections would be glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man. I feel a self congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he...without vanity, that these discourses bear testimony to my admiration of that truly distinguished man, and I should desire that the last word which I should... | |
 | Henrietta Gerwig - 1926 - 544 sider
...that he crystallized in these annual addresses, which he brought at last to an end with the words, "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 Michelangelo." There are... | |
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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.*... 
