 | John Nichols - Painters - 1785 - 776 pages
...banifhed from a mind capable of " conceiving fuch complicated woe •, woe fo fternly " felt, and yet fo tenderly. Hogarth's performance " was more ridiculous than any thing he had ever " ridiculed, lie fet the price of 400 /. on it, and " had it returned on his hands by the perfon for '* whom it... | |
 | Horace Walpole, George Vertue - Gardening - 1786 - 360 pages
...have banifhed from a mind capable of conceiving fuch complicated woe ; woe fo fternly felt and yet fo tenderly. Hogarth's performance was more ridiculous than any thing he had ever ridiculed* He fet the price of 400 /. on it, and had it returned on his hands by the perfon for whom it was painted.... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...that should bave been there, all was there that such a story would him banished from a mind capable 1 of conceiving such complicated woe; woe so sternly...ridiculous than any thing he had ever ridiculed. He set tbe price of four hundred ponnds on it, and had it returned on his hands by the person for whom it... | |
 | Artists - 1812 - 474 pages
...despair ; in short, all is wanting that should have been there, all is there that such a story -would have banished from a mind capable of conceiving such...complicated woe; woe so sternly felt, and yet so tenderly" This glowing picture presents to the mind a being whose contending passions may be felt, but were not... | |
 | John Britton, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 734 pages
...lover's heart that lay before her like that of a sheep for her dinner. None of the sober grief, no dignity of suppressed anguish, no involuntary tear,...any thing he had ever ridiculed. He set the price of 400 guineas on it, and had it returned on his hands by the person for whom it was painted. He took... | |
 | Francis Charles Laird - Nottinghamshire (England) - 1813 - 440 pages
...lover's heart that lay before her like that of a sheep for her dinner. None of the sober grief, no dignity of suppressed anguish, no involuntary tear,...any thing he had ever ridiculed. He set the price of 400 guineas on it, and had it returned on his hands by the person for whom it was painted. He took... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 750 pages
...lover's heart that lay before her like that of a sheep for her dinner. None of the sober grief, no dignity of suppressed anguish, no involuntary tear,...any thing he had ever ridiculed. He set the price of 400 guineas on it, and had it returned on his hands by the person for whom it was painted. He took... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 726 pages
...despair; in short all was wanting that should have been there, all was there that such a story should hare banished from a mind capable of conceiving such complicated...any thing he had ever ridiculed. He set the price of 400 guineas on it, and had it returned on his hands by the person for whom it was painted. He took... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Artists - 1827 - 400 pages
...despair ; in short all was wanting that should have been there, all was there that such a story would have banished from a mind capable of conceiving such...any thing he had ever ridiculed. He set the price of 400/. on it, and had it returned on his hands by the person for whom it was painted.-f- He took subscriptions... | |
 | Matthew Pilkington - Painters - 1829 - 586 pages
...banished from a mind capable of conceiving such complicated woe." He set the price of four hundred pounds on it, and had it returned on his hands by the person for whom it was painted. His other pictures of the historical kind were Danae, and the Pool of Bethesda ; to which similar objections... | |
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None of the sober grief, no dignity of suppressed anguish, no involuntary tear, no settled meditation on the fate she meant to meet, no amorous warmth turned holy by despair ¡ in short, all was wanting that should have been there, all was there that... 
