 | 1854 - 504 Seiten
...which some blamed, and more commended. He was sixteen years old, and irrecoverably an artist, vhen Sir Joshua Reynolds visited Devonport, accompanied...resolute liking which already possessed him for painting. With the year 1771, the fortune of Northcote began to dawn. Sir Joshua Reynolds was prevailed on to... | |
 | Daniel Huntington - 1838 - 492 Seiten
...which some blamed, and more commended. He was sixteen years old, and irrecoverably an artist, vhen Sir Joshua Reynolds visited Devonport, accompanied...resolute liking which already possessed him for painting. With the year 1771, the fortune of Northcote began to dawn. Sir Joshua Reynolds was prevailed on to... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 394 Seiten
...out to me," says Northcote, "at a public meeting, where a great crowd was assembled. I got as near him as I could, from the pressure of the people, to...coat, which I did with great satisfaction to my mind." All who have souls to feel the influence of genius will applaud this touch of youthful enthusiasm.... | |
 | Plymouth athenaeum - 1862 - 602 Seiten
...great commotion in reference to some local matter, probably the water question. " I remember," says Northcote, " when he was pointed out to me at a public...coat, which I did with great satisfaction to my mind." Plympton, Lord Mount Edgecumbe acquainting him by letter of the circumstance. The letter in which he... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1864 - 302 Seiten
...a young man attended a public meeting where Eeynolds was present, when he got as near to him as he could from the pressure of the people " to touch the skirt of his coat," which he accomplished, he says, " with great satisfaction of mind." But the full prosperity of Eeynolds's... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie - 1865 - 758 Seiten
...me with wonder and delight, although I was then very young ; insomuch that I remember whe n Reynolds was pointed out to me at a public meeting, •where...coat, which I did with great satisfaction to my mind." [One is irresistibly reminded by this of Reynolds's own boyish delight, when, in just such a crowd,... | |
 | 1875 - 486 Seiten
...Johnson. "I remember," said JNTorthcote, "when he was pointed out to me at a public meeting, \vhere a great crowd was assembled ; I got as near to him...resolute liking which already possessed him for painting. With the year 1771, the fortune of Northcote began to dawn. Sir Joshua Reynolds was prevailed on to... | |
 | 1876 - 944 Seiten
...insomuch that I remember when Reynolds was pointed out to me at a public meeting, where a great crowd were assembled, I got as near to him as I could from the...coat, which I did with great satisfaction to my mind." It was a genuine case of hero-worship, whiqh lasted throughout Northcote's life. He begins at sixteen... | |
 | 1876 - 814 Seiten
...insomuch that I remember when Reynolds was pointed out to me at a public meeting, where a great crowd were assembled, I got as near to him as I could from the...coat, which I did with great satisfaction to my mind." It was a genuine case of heroworship, which lasted throughout Northcote's life. He begins at sixteen... | |
 | 1876 - 848 Seiten
...insomuch that I remember when Reynolds was pointed out to me at a public meeting, where a great crowd were assembled, I got as near to him as I could from the...coat, which I did with great satisfaction to my mind." It was a genuine case of hero-worship, which lasted throughout Northcote's life. He begins at sixteen... | |
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when he was pointed out to me at a public meeting, where a great crowd was assembled ; I got as near to him as I could from the pressure of the people, to touch the skirt of his coat, which I did with great satisfaction to my mind. 
