 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
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved l Austin" Samuel Austin Allibone( eo many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from... | |
 | 1880 - 208 pages
...HASTINGS. THERE were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel...mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition—a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant... | |
 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 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 mind from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition —... | |
 | 1919 - 714 pages
...against the oppressor of Africa. The spectacle had lured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved for us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and...labors in that dark and profound mine from which he extracted a vast treasure of erudition. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 240 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...preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many 142 writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 pages
...Africa. 5. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel...many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of BO many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 1084 pages
...painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of _so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound inin>,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays], Hastings.) - 1883 - 244 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... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 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... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1883 - 942 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,... | |
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