| 1865 - 1022 páginas
...sensations as he intended to excite. I reflect, not without vanity, that these discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man, and I should desire that the best words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of Michael... | |
| William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1867 - 448 páginas
...the importance of the study of the works, and spirit, of the mightiest and greatest of artists : " I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this 1 LIBBEB : Inaugural Discourse before Columbia College. place, might be the name of Michael Angelo."... | |
| English authors - 1869 - 458 páginas
...sensations as he intended to excite. I reflect, not without vanity, that these discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should...this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO. XLII. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 1729—1774. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, born 1729, at Pallasmore, in County Longford,... | |
| Frederick Peter Seguier - 1870 - 346 páginas
...who, when resigning the chair at the Academy through declining health, said: 'I should desire that thf last words which I should pronounce in this Academy,...from this place, might be the name of Michael Angelo ' ? At the present day, a very different sentiment frequently prevails ; some of our largest collectors... | |
| John Timbs - 1872 - 408 páginas
...pressing forwards, secured one of them. Sir Joshua concluded the lecture by saying, with great emotion; ' And I should desire that the last words which I should...this place might be the name of — Michael Angelo.' As he descended from the rostrum, Burke went up to him, took his hand, and said, — " The Angel ended,... | |
| Marie Liechtenstein (Pcesse.) - 1874 - 608 páginas
...sensations as he intended to excite. I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should...Academy, and from this place, might be the name of MICHEL AXGELO." l Reynolds thus made the great Italian's name as an epitaph to his own public life.... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1888 - 540 páginas
...obsolete doctrine ' was to give the highest place in art to Michael- Angelo, to 'bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man; and I should...and from this place, might be the name of Michael- Angela' 1 Mr. Symonds arrives at precisely the same conclusion when he selects Michael- Angelo as the... | |
| Louis Viardot - 1877 - 540 páginas
...delivery of the medals, and concluded by expatiating upon the genius of his favourite master, adding — " I should desire that the last words which I should...Academy, and from this place, might be the name of Michelangelo." On the 23rd of February, 1792, Sir Joshua expired, without any visible symptoms of pain,... | |
| Louis Viardot - 1877 - 532 páginas
...delivery of the medals, and concluded by expatiating upon the genius of his favourite master, adding — " I should desire that the last words which I should...Academy, and from this place, might be the name of Michelangelo." On the 23rd of February, 1792, Sir Joshua expired, without any visible symptoms of pain,... | |
| Moses Foster Sweetser - 1878 - 188 páginas
...closed with the sentence : " I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should desire that the last words I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of MICHAEL ANGELO." Thereupon... | |
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