 | 1781 - 800 pages
...whom it was painted. He took fublcriptions for a plate of it, but h^d the fenfe at Uft to fuppiefs it. I make no more apology for this account, than for the encomiums I have beftowed on him. Both are dictated by truth, and are the hillory of a great man's excellencies and... | |
 | John Nichols - English literature - 1782 - 502 pages
...was painted. He took fubfcriptions for <* a plate of it, but had the fenfe, at laft, to fup'* prefs it. I make no more apology for this account *' than for the encomiums I have beftowed on him* «' Both are dictated by truth, and are the hiftory of <ea great man's excellencies... | |
 | John Nichols - Painters - 1785 - 776 pages
...painted. He took fubfcriptions for " a plate of it ; but had the fenfe, at laft, to fup" prefs ir. I make no more apology for this account " than for the encomiums I have bcftowed on him. «' Both are dictated by truth, and are the hiftory of *{ a great man's excellencies... | |
 | Horace Walpole, George Vertue - Gardening - 1786 - 360 pages
...whom it was painted. He took fubfcriptions for a plate of it, but had the fenfe at laft to fupprefs it. I make no more apology for this account than for the encomiums I have beftowed on him. Both are dictated by truth, and are the hiftory of a great man's excellencies and... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...performance was more ridiculous than any thing he had ever ridiculed. He set tbe price of four hundred ponnds on it, and had it returned on his hands by the person...painted. He took subscriptions for a plate of it, hut had the sense at last to suppress it. We make no more apology for this account than for the encomiums... | |
 | Francis Charles Laird - Nottinghamshire (England) - 1813 - 440 pages
...performance was more ridiculous than any thing he had ever ridiculed. He set the price of 400 guineas on it, and had it returned on his hands by the person...subscriptions for a plate of it, but had the sense to suppress it.* Thus far says the late Lord Oj-ford; to which we may add that Smollet has introduced... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 726 pages
...performance was more ridiculous than any thing he had ever ridiculed. He set the price of 400 guineas on it, and had it returned on his hands by the person...subscriptions for a plate of it, but had the sense to suppress it.* Thus far says the late Lord Orford ; to which we may add that Smollet has introduced... | |
 | John Britton, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 734 pages
...performance was more ridiculous than any thing he had ever ridiculed. He set the price of 400 guineas on it, and had it returned on his hands by the person...subscriptions for a plate of it, but had the sense to suppress it.* Thus far says the late Lord Orford; to which we may add that Smollet has introduced... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Artists - 1827 - 400 pages
...Hogarth's performance was more ridiculous than any thing he had ever ridiculed. He set the price of 400/. on it, and had it returned on his hands by the person for whom it was painted.-f- He took subscriptions for a plate of it, but had the sense at last to suppress it. I make... | |
 | Matthew Pilkington - Painters - 1829 - 586 pages
...banished from a mind capable of conceiving such complicated woe." He set the price of four hundred pounds on it, and had it returned on his hands by the person for whom it was painted. His other pictures of the historical kind were Danae, and the Pool of Bethesda ; to which similar objections... | |
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He set the price of 400/. on it, and had it returned on his hands by the person for whom it was painted. He took subscriptions for a plate of it, but had the sense at last to suppress it. 
