 | Browning club, Syracuse, N.Y. - 1890 - 120 pages
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 368 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 704 pages
...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 Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 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...distinction enough for an ambitious man. I feel a self congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite. I reflect,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 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...distinction enough for an ambitious man. I feel a self congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite. I reflect,... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Painters - 1895 - 336 pages
...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 ! " [The Arundel Society has published a chromo-lithograph of the Sistine ceiling, and Braun has issued... | |
 | Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson - Art - 1899 - 280 pages
...last words of his last " Discourse " were as follows : — " Were I to begin the world again, I would tread in the steps of that great master: to kiss the...such sensations as he intended to excite. I reflect without vanity, that these 'Discourses' bear testimony to my admiration of that truly divine man; and... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann - Great Britain - 1899 - 650 pages
...tread in the steps of that groat master : to kiss the hem of his garment, to cateh the slightest (if his perfections, would be glory and distinction enough...self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as ho intended to excite. I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901 - 632 pages
...were I now to begin the world again, I would tread in the steps of that great master [Michel Angelo]. To kiss the hem of his garment, to catch the slightest...glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man." — Discounes of S'r Joshua Reynolds, 1884, p. 289.] a. The statue of Moses on the monument of Julius... | |
 | Painting - 1902 - 110 pages
...he was born in the days of Michael Angelo," and Sir Joshua Reynolds savs, in his Discourses, that " to kiss the hem of his garment, to catch the slightest...glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man. " The spectator who comes with such praises sounding in his ears to this picture will probably be much... | |
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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... 
