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Стр. 173
... pictures were small , even in the swelling numbers of the Scottish currency . the genealogy of the house of Breadalbane occurs the following singular memorandum . It is dated 1635 : ' Sir Colin Camp- bell , eighth laird of Glenorchy ...
... pictures were small , even in the swelling numbers of the Scottish currency . the genealogy of the house of Breadalbane occurs the following singular memorandum . It is dated 1635 : ' Sir Colin Camp- bell , eighth laird of Glenorchy ...
Стр. 176
... pictures , Kneller ! such thy skill , That nature seems obedient to thy will ; Comes out and meets thy pencil in the draught , Lives there , and wants but words to speak the thought . ' To the incense of Dryden was added that of Pope ...
... pictures , Kneller ! such thy skill , That nature seems obedient to thy will ; Comes out and meets thy pencil in the draught , Lives there , and wants but words to speak the thought . ' To the incense of Dryden was added that of Pope ...
Стр. 178
... picture of the scene . What rendered this piece the more pleasing was , that it exhibited an exact likeness of the man , with the portrait of his anta- gonist , and the figures in caricature of the persons 178 GREAT ARTISTS .
... picture of the scene . What rendered this piece the more pleasing was , that it exhibited an exact likeness of the man , with the portrait of his anta- gonist , and the figures in caricature of the persons 178 GREAT ARTISTS .
Стр. 184
... picture which it could not but quickly recognise as a portrait . In his designs we see the precise spirit of the most artificial century , frightened out of its formal decorum . The satirist has penetrated farther than his audience ...
... picture which it could not but quickly recognise as a portrait . In his designs we see the precise spirit of the most artificial century , frightened out of its formal decorum . The satirist has penetrated farther than his audience ...
Стр. 185
... picture . It was executed with a skill that did honour to the artist's abilities ; but the likeness had in it not a grain of flattery . The peer , disgusted at this counterpart of himself , never once thought of paying for a reflector ...
... picture . It was executed with a skill that did honour to the artist's abilities ; but the likeness had in it not a grain of flattery . The peer , disgusted at this counterpart of himself , never once thought of paying for a reflector ...
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Стр. 65 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Стр. 99 - ... their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder.
Стр. 131 - But I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever by his work one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity, I ever prayed that God would give him strength; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest.
Стр. 66 - Against your Protestant brethren ; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war ! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war...
Стр. 56 - You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
Стр. 50 - I am persuaded his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time ; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
Стр. 53 - The first time that ever I took notice of him was in the very beginning of the Parliament held in November 1640, when I vainly thought myself a courtly young gentleman ; for we courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes. I came one morning into the House well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor : his linen was plain and not very clean, and I remember...
Стр. 65 - German despot ; your attempts will be for ever vain and impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your adversaries, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms : Never, never, never...
Стр. 60 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Стр. 61 - I shall on such an occasion, without scruple, trample upon all those forms with which wealth and dignity entrench themselves, nor shall anything but age restrain my resentment — age, which always brings one privilege, that of being insolent and supercilious without punishment.