 A young man by the name of Wilkie, a Scotchman, has a very extraordinary work.' I was in the clouds, hurried over my breakfast, rushed away, met Jackson who joined me, and we both bolted into Wilkie's room. I roared out : ' Wilkie, my boy, your name's...  Sir David Wilkie, R. A. - Page 42by William Bayne - 1903 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1853 - 386 pages
...day" (after the exhibition of the 'Village Politicians';— he says, "I read in the news ' A young man by the name of Wilkie, a Scotchman, has a very extraordinary work.' I was in the clouds, hurried over my breakfast, rushed away, met Jackson, who joined me, and we both... | |
 | 1853 - 582 pages
...took the Prince up to see it v On the Sunday (tbe next day) I read in the news : — " A young man, by the name of Wilkie, a Scotchman, has a very extraordinary work." I was in the clouds, hurried over my breakfast, rushed away, met Jackson, who joined me, and we both... | |
 | Benjamin Robert Haydon - 1853 - 568 pages
...Angerstein took the Prince up to see it. On the Sunday (the next day) I read in the News, " A young man by the name of Wilkie, a Scotchman, has a very extraordinary work." I was in the clouds, hurried over my breakfast, rushed away, met Jackson, who joined me, and we both... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...capitally hung. On the private day people crowded about it; and folks read in the news, " A young man, by the name of Wilkie, a Scotchman, has a very extraordinary work." Jackson and Haydon hastened to congratulate their friend. " I roared out," writes the latter, "'Wilkie,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 610 pages
...capitally hung. On the private day people crowded about it ; and folks read in the news, •' A young man, by the name of Wilkie, a Scotchman, has a very extraordinary work." Jackson and Haydon hastened to congratulate their friend. " I roared out," writes the latter, " Wilkie,... | |
 | 1854 - 478 pages
...Lonl Mansfield had appeared at the Academy Exhibition, Haydon n-.id in titeffeiet: " ' A young man, by the name of Wilkie, a Scotchman, has a very extraordinary work.' I was in the cloud«, hurried over my breakfast, rushed away, met Jackson, who joined me. and we both... | |
 | John Heiton - 1859 - 264 pages
..."Tillage Politicians" in 1806. He says, " On the Sunday (the next day), I read in the News, ' A young man by the name of Wilkie, a Scotchman, has a very extraordinary work.' 1 was in the clouds — hurried over my breakfast — rushed away — met Jackson, who joined me, and... | |
 | John William Mollett - 1881 - 158 pages
...the critics in the newspapers. On the Sunday, the next day, Haydon r-ead in the News, " a young man by the name of Wilkie, a Scotchman, has a very extraordinary work." " I was in the clouds," he cries, " hurried over my breakfast, rushed away, met Jackson, who joined... | |
 | Scotsmen - 1885 - 152 pages
...One morning, soon after the Academy opened, a friend read in the paper these words : " A young man by the name of Wilkie, a Scotchman, has a very extraordinary work." He hurried over his breakfast, hurried off, tumbled over another friend on his way, and they both rushed... | |
 | William Bayne - 1903 - 306 pages
...from a business point of view, why he should recede from the arrangement. At the same time, there is a good deal to be said for Wilkie's position in the...held that its author was "second to no Dutchman that TwoGreat ever bore palette." This enthusiastic eulogy irons provoked a visit to Wilkie from these two... | |
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