 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1837 - 594 pages
...of Michael Angelo." 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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Biography - 1838 - 862 pages
...the students of the Royal Academy, in 1790, speaking of Michael Angelo, emphatically exclaimed—" to kiss the hem of his garment, to catch the slightest...glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man !" ANGELONI, FRANCESCO, an Italian historian, born at Terni, and died at Rome, 1652; principally known... | |
 | John Gould - Art - 1838 - 432 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 822 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...ambitious man. I feel a self-congratulation in knowing mvself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite; and should desire that the last words which... | |
 | William Hone - 1839 - 874 pages
...live. Yet however unequal I feel myself to that attempt, were I now to bej;in the world again, I would t every day with the corpse : my brother went to see him there, and the scene so shocked him He was the bright luminary from whom painting has borrowed a new lustre, under whose hands it assumed... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1842 - 318 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...would be glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man.i2 I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to... | |
 | Scotland - 1843 - 1278 pages
...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 - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...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... | |
 | 1844 - 520 pages
...those who wish to understand the true merit of this great master, of whom Sir Joshua Reynolds said that "to kiss the hem of his garment, to catch the slightest...glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man I" CASTS FROM ORGANIZED SUBSTANCES. FOR the purposes of the anatomist and the botanist it is often desirable... | |
 | Jeremiah Donovan - Rome - 1844 - 526 pages
...in outline and grandeur since the revival of the arts ! Of its author Sir Joshua Reynolds says : " To kiss the hem of his garment , to catch the slightest...glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man "; and his fame in the double capacity of painter and sculptor , arts which were also united in the... | |
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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... 
