 | 1842 - 612 pages
...a scholar of no mean standing, and an artist of surpassing merit, thus expressed himself, " I would tread in the steps of that great master : to kiss...perfections, would be glory and distinction enough for an amhitious man." The remarkable man, thus idolized by one who is himself an idol in his own sphere at... | |
 | England - 1843 - 844 pages
...was born in the sime age with that painter." — " I feel a self- congratulation," adds Sif Joshua, " in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he...without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony 6f my admiration of that trnly divine man; and I should desire that tholast words which I should pronounce... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 440 pages
...live. Yet however unequal I feel myself to that attempt, were I now to begin the world again, I would tread in the steps of that great master: to kiss the...glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man. V I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite.... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...live. Yet however unequal I feel myself to that attempt, were I now to begin the world again, I would tread in the steps of that great master : to kiss...glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man. He was the bright luminary from whom painting has borrowed a new lustre, under whose hands it assumed... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...live. Yet however unequal I feel myself to that attempt, were I now to begin the world again, I would tread in the steps of that great master : to kiss...glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man. He was the bright luminary from whom painting has borrowed a new lustre, under whose hands it assumed... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...live. Yet however unequal I feel myself to that attempt, were I now to begin the world again, I would +Ұ' ambilious man. He was the bright luminary from whom painting has borrowed a new lustre, under whose... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 892 pages
...says, ' Were I now to begin the world again, however unequal I feel myself to that attempt, I would tread in the steps of that great master : to kiss...a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of inch sensations as he intended to • AI ii,-; nnd should desire that the last words which I should... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...world again, however unequal I feel myself to that attempt, I would tread in the steps of that créât master : to kiss the hem of his garment, to catch...capable of such sensations as he intended to excite; and should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this academy, and from this place,... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...live. Yet however unequal I feel myself to that attempt, were I now to begin the world again, I would tread in the steps of that great master : to kiss...glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man. He was the bright luminary from whom painting has borrowed a new lustre, under whose hands it assumed... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 348 pages
...live. Yet, however unequal I feel myself to that attempt, were I now to begin the world again, I would tread in the steps of that great master. To kiss the...glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man." — SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS' Discourses, vol. il. p. 216-] (3) The statue of Moses on the monument of Julius... | |
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Yet, however unequal I feel myself to that attempt, were I now to begin the world again, I would tread in the steps of that great master : to kiss the hem of his garment, to catch the slightest of his perfections, would be glory and distinction enough... 
