Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon: Historical Painter, from His Autobiography and Journals, Band 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 |
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Seite 350 - Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. For he maketh sore, and bindeth up : he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Seite 74 - Some men there are love not a gaping pig; Some, that are mad if they behold a cat; And others, when the bagpipe sings i...
Seite 167 - Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate* pride Waiting revenge.
Seite 51 - Your Committee cannot dismiss this interesting subject, without submitting to the attentive reflection of the House, HOW HIGHLY the cultivation of the fine arts has contributed to the REPUTATION, CHARACTER, and DIGNITY of EVERY GOVERNMENT by which they have been encouraged, and how intimately they are connected with the advancement of EVERY THING VALUABLE IN SCIENCE, LITERATURE, and PHILOSOPHY.
Seite 149 - It seemeth that both these learned men (Gower and Chaucer) were of the Inner Temple ; for not many years since Master Buckley did see a record in the same house where Geoffry Chaucer was fined two shillings for beating a Franciscan Friar in Fleet Street.
Seite 10 - It is singular how success and the want of it operate on two extraordinary men, Walter Scott and Wordsworth. Scott enters a room and sits at table with the coolness and selfpossession of conscious fame ; Wordsworth with a mortified elevation of head, as if fearful he was not estimated as he deserved.
Seite 8 - He was in his glory in the fields. The humming of a bee, the sight of a flower, the glitter of the sun, seemed to make his nature tremble ; then his eyes flashed, his cheek glowed, and his mouth quivered.
Seite 9 - There is the thesis, in another, 'that with a great Poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.' There is Haydon's story of him, how ' he once covered his tongue and throat as far as he could reach with Cayenne pepper, in order to appreciate the delicious coldness of claret in all its glory — his own expression.
Seite 273 - ... to soothe and comfort, to inspire and support the afflicted. " Under such impressions the present picture was produced. I imagined him standing on the brow of an impending cliff and musing on his past fortunes — sea-birds screaming at his feet — the sun just down — the sails of his guardship glittering on the horizon, and the Atlantic calm, silent, awfully deep and endlessly extensive.
Seite 6 - eye of newt and toe of frog,' and then to see Lawrence give a sly bite and then look awed and pretend to be listening. I went away highly gratified, and as I stood on the landing-place to get cool, I overheard my own servant in the hall say, 'What! is that the old lady making such a noise?" 'Yes.' 'Why, she makes as much noise as ever.' 'Yes,' was the answer, 'she tunes her pipes as well as ever she did.