...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,...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...'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...

...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...

...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,...