| Sussex Archaeological Society - 1862 - 376 pages
...there is no instance of a man who could give to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chain together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species." And after having enumerated others of his celebrated works, such as those at Windsor, Chatsworth, Burleigh,... | |
| 1863 - 884 pages
...there is no instance of a man who could give to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chain together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.' And after having enumerated others of his celebrated works, such as those at Windsor, Chatsworth, Burleigh,... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1868 - 296 pages
...1ms hung up his day's sport on the wall, and that some of the birds are still in their death flutter. There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave...elements with a free disorder natural to each species. In the great antechamber are several dead fowl over the chimney, finely executed, and, over a closet-door,... | |
| Henry Hart Milman - 1868 - 588 pages
...inimitable unison of the lines of the building and the decoration. In the words, again, of Walpole, ' there is no instance of a man ' before Gibbons, who gave to wood the loose and airy light' ness of flowers, and chained together the various produc' tions of the elements with a fine... | |
| 1869 - 634 pages
...out of his garden, and it is marvellous what effects he produced with them. Walpole truly says : " There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave...together the various productions of the elements with a fine disorder natural to each species." Let us then, by judicious restoration of his works, show that... | |
| Amos Dean - 1869 - 652 pages
...excelled the most as a carver in wood. It is asserted that there is no instance before him of a man " who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." l Under his operations birds seemed to live, foliage to shoot, and flowers to expand. From the fell... | |
| Henry Hart Milman - 1869 - 588 pages
...inimitable unison of the lines of the building and the decoration. In the words, again, of Walpole, ' there is no instance of a man ' before Gibbons, who gave to wood the loose and airy light' ness of flowers, and chained together the various produc' tions of the elements with a fine... | |
| John Evelyn - 1870 - 788 pages
...'Grinling Gibbon. — An original g:nius, a citizen of nature. There is no instance before him of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...together * the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species. It is uncertain whether he was born in Holland or in England... | |
| Frederick William Fairholt - 1870 - 496 pages
...James the Second. He excelled in carving flowers and foliage ; and Walpole has said with justice, " There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy li|(htm,ei of (lowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1872 - 324 pages
...well-merited eulogium passed upon the principal artist by Horace Walpole. " There is no instance," says he, " of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." It is generally believed that Gibbons was the artist of these exquisite carvings. There is, however,... | |
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