 There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so...  Warren Hastings - Page 158by Thomas Babington Macaulay baron Macaulay - 1886 - 183 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...of Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition—... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 478 pages
...of Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a... | |
 | 1849 - 822 pages
...spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which had preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of s-.> many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of...many noble matrons It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine * Critical and MisceUaneo/ui Essays, iii. 206, 206. 338 Mac... | |
 | 1849 - 864 pages
...of Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to as the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble... | |
 | James Dennistoun - 1851 - 520 pages
...its force has shown. " ADDISON. " That easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful countenances of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons." MACAULAY. IT would occupy a full chapter were we to trace the history of what Julius II. meant to have... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...oppressor of Africa. There were seen side by side the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he. had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...of Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest scholar and the greatest painter of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel...sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parrf to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure... | |
 | J C. Graham - 1861 - 134 pages
...greatest painter) and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from the easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition : a... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - 866 pages
...1779, the other sizes being in proportion. Of his portraits, which, as Macaulay has observed, " have preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many...statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons," the number is very considerable, and the technical merits, especially with respect to color and cHiaroscuro,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - 888 pages
...being in proportion. Of his portraits, which, as Mncaulay has observed, " have preserved to us tho thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons," the number is very considerable, and tho technical merits, especially with respect to color and chiaroscuro,... | |
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