Sir Joshua and His Circle, Τόμος 2Hutchinson & Company, 1906 - 639 σελίδες |
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Academicians admiration afterwards Angelica Angelica Kauffmann artist asked Barry beauty Benjamin West Bonomi Boydell brother brought chair Charles colouring comedy Council daughter David Garrick dear death declared delighted desire dine dinner Duke Earl Edmund Burke Emma England Evelina exhibition Fagniani Fanny Fanny Burney father favour friends Fuseli gained Gainsborough gave George Selwyn given Goldsmith Greville hearing Henry Fuseli honour hope hundred guineas hundred pounds husband Italy John Boydell John Opie Johnson Kauffmann King Lady letter lived London Lord Carlisle Majesty manner Marchesa marriage married Mie-Mie months never Northcote Opie painted painter patrons person picture play portrait President received resignation returned Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Cosway Rome Romney Romney's Royal Academy says Schomberg House sent Sheridan Siddons Sir Joshua Reynolds society studio tell theatre thought thousand pounds Thrale told town wife wish woman women write wrote
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Σελίδα 410 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing : When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.
Σελίδα 386 - I entreat you'll relieve me from that state of suspense in which I have been kept for a long time. Whatever objections you have made or shall make to my play, I will endeavour to remove and not argue about them. To bring in any new judges either of its merits or faults I can never submit to. Upon a former occasion, when my other play was before Mr. Garrick, he offered to bring me before Mr. Whitehead's tribunal...
Σελίδα 387 - I ask many pardons for the trouble I gave you yesterday. Upon more mature deliberation, and the advice of a sensible friend, I began to think it indelicate in me to throw upon you the odium of confirming Mr. Colman's sentence. I therefore request you will send my play...
Σελίδα 393 - I was then at a loss indeed; an epilogue was to be made, and for none but Mrs. Bulkley. I made one, and Colman thought it too bad to be spoken; I was obliged therefore to try a fourth time, and I made a very mawkish thing, as you'll shortly see. Such is the history of my Stage adventures, and which I have at last done with. I cannot help saying, that I am very sick of the stage; and though I believe I shall get three tolerable benefits, yet I shall on the whole be a loser, even in a pecuniary light;...
Σελίδα 615 - I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.
Σελίδα 409 - Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man ; As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine : As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art.
Σελίδα 381 - As for our intended journey to Devonshire I find it out of my power to perform it, for, as soon as I arrive at Dover I intend to let the ladies go on, and I will take a country lodging somewhere near that place in order to do some business. I have so outrun the constable, that I must mortify a little to bring it up again.
Σελίδα 402 - ... to give his cousin an opportunity to go off, he drives his mother over hedges, ditches, and through ponds. There is not, sweet sucking Johnson, a natural stroke in the whole play, but the young fellow's giving the stolen jewels to the mother, supposing her to be the landlady. That Mr Colman did no justice to this piece, I honestly allow ; that he told all his friends it would be damned, I positively aver ; and, from such ungenerous insinuations, without a dramatic merit, it rose to public notice...
Σελίδα 578 - Wine has been celebrated for the production of eloquence. I put myself into violent motion, and I think repeated it; but all was vain. I then went to bed, and strange as it may seem, I think slept. When I saw light, it was time to contrive what I should do. Though GOD stopped my speech, he left me my hand; I enjoyed a mercy which was not granted to my dear friend Lawrence, 'who now perhaps overlooks me as I am writing, and rejoices that I have what he wanted. My first note was necessarily to my servant,...
Σελίδα 538 - I found myself then as incapable of writing such an epilogue as I should be now of speaking it. The jingle of rhyme and the language of fiction would but ill suit my present feelings. This is to me a very awful moment ; it is no less than parting for ever with those from whom I have received the greatest kindness and favours, and upon the spot where that kindness and those favours were received.