 | 1830 - 644 pages
...Martin is giving to the world with such matchless success. Writing to his son in 1794, he says:—" I have made many grand designs, I have formed a system of original subjects, moral, and my own—and I think one of the grandest that has been thought of—but nobody knows it.—Hence it is... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Art - 1867 - 874 pages
...more than ever timid and suspicious. He wrote to his son : ' I have made many grand designs ; I hare formed a system of original subjects, moral and my...begin to feel I cannot bear trouble of any kind." He quits his house in Cavendish Square and becomes the purchaser of a retreat at Holly Bash Hill, Hampstead,... | |
 | Painting - 1888 - 742 pages
...others yet larger and more ambitious. " I have formed a system of original subjects," he wrote in 1794, "moral and my own, and I think one of the grandest...wrap myself in retirement and pursue these plans." The words apply, says one of his biographers, to all periods of his life ;. he was always dreaming... | |
 | Michael Bryan - Engravers - 1889 - 796 pages
...get more room in which to carry out some conceptions he had thus described in a letter to his son: "1 have made many grand designs ; I have formed a system...been thought of — but nobody knows it. Hence it ie my view to wrap myself in retirement and pursue these plans, as I begin to feel I cannot bear trouble... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - Great Britain - 1897 - 514 pages
...secret from all but Hayley, hinting at it, however, in letters to his son. ' I have made,' he writes, ' many grand designs ; I have formed a system of original...my own, and I think one of' the grandest that has ever been Romney 198 thought of, but nobody knows. Hence it is my view to wrap myself in retirement,... | |
 | Art - 1903 - 752 pages
...irritable, and more than ever timid and suspicious. " I have made many grand designs," he wrote to his son; "I have formed a system of original subjects, moral...retirement and pursue these plans, as I begin to feel that I cannot bear trouble of any kind." He left his house in Cavendish Square and became the purchaser... | |
 | George Paston - 1903 - 314 pages
...to finish. Only a short time before he had written to his son : " I have made my grand designs ; 1 have formed a system of original subjects, moral and...own — and, I think, one of the grandest that has ever been thought of — but nobody knows it. Hence it is my view to wrap myself in retirement and... | |
 | Michael Bryan - Engravers - 1904 - 550 pages
...get more room in which to carry out some conceptions he had thus described in a letter to bis son : " I have made many grand designs ; I have formed a system...begin to feel I cannot bear trouble of any kind." The last words point to early symptoms of the mental disorder which was to shadow the close of his... | |
 | Arthur Bensley Chamberlain - 1910 - 528 pages
...father, written on March 15th, 1794, which shows how this irritability of mind was growing upon him — ' I have made many grand designs, I have formed a system...begin to feel I cannot bear trouble of any kind.' According to the same biographer, Romney ' was naturally of a placid and easy disposition, and it was... | |
 | Great Britain - 1922 - 1490 pages
...secret from all but Hayley, hinting at it, however, in letters to his son. ' I have made,' he writes, ' many grand designs ; I have formed a system of original...and my own, and I think one of the grandest that has ever been Romney 198 thought of, but nobody knows. Hence it is my view to wrap myself in retirement,... | |
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I have made many grand designs; I have formed a system of original subjects, moral and my own, and I think one of the grandest that has been thought of; but nobody knows it. Hence, it is my view to wrap myself in retirement and pursue these plans, as... 
