The carved cartoon, by Austin Clare |
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amico mio answered apothecary asked awful beautiful Birdcage Walk boy's broke Burnett cartoon carving Cheapside clasped Cloth boards colour Court crowd Crown 8vo dark dead death deep note Deptford door Evelyn exclaimed eyes face Fcap fear fell Filippo fire flames Foster Frenchwoman full-page Illustrations gazed gentleman Grinling Gibbons hand head heard heart Italian Jack Foster jailer King lad's light lips living looked madam Majesty Master Gibbons Master Simeon Mistress Leah monkey murmured never once Papists passed picture piece plague pomegranates poor pot of flowers press-gang prison Queen quivered Revolt of Islam roof round scarcely seemed shadow sight signor signorina silence Silvio Sir George smile sound stood stopped street suddenly tell thought toned paper trembling turned violin voice wall whispered window wonder wood words young carver
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Seite xii - In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise musical, and very civil, sober, and discreet in his discourse. There was only an old woman in the house. So desiring leave to visit him sometimes, I went away.
Seite xiv - Boord, who used to bring petticoats and fans, and baubles, out of France to the ladies, began to find fault with several things in the work, which she understood no more than an ass, or a monkey, so as in a kind of indignation, I caused the person who brought it to carry it back to the chamber, finding the Queen so much governed by an ignorant Frenchwoman, and this incomparable artist had his labour only for his pains, which not a little displeased me ; and he was fain to send it down to his cottage...
Seite 173 - Shew thy servants thy work : and their children thy glory. And the glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be upon us : prosper | thou the work of our hands upon us, 0 prosper thou our handy| work.
Seite xii - I was walking near a poor solitary thatched house in a field in our parish (Deptford), near Sayes Court.
Seite 76 - Begone, dull care ! I prithee begone from me ! Begone, dull care ! you and I shall never agree.
Seite xii - I never had before seen in all my travels. I questioned him why he worked in such an obscure and lonesome place ; he told me it was that he might apply himself to his profession without interruption, and wondered not a little how I had found him out.
Seite 168 - I can devise;* may be of present use for the auditory, make all the external repairs perfect, and become an ornament to his Majesty's most excellent reign, to the Church of England, and to this great city, which it is a pity, in the opinion of our neighbours, should longer continue the most unadorned of her bigness in the world.
Seite xii - In good earnest, the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong ; in the piece was more than one hundred figures of men, &c.