 | 1808 - 408 pages
...expression, her fingers were bloodied by her lover's heart that lay before her like that of a sheep's for her dinner. None of the sober grief, no dignity of suppressed anguish, no involuntary tear, no nettled meditation on the fate she meant tu meet, no amorous warmth turned holy by despair; in short... | |
 | Artists - 1812 - 474 pages
...utmost powers of the pencil. Hogarth's Sigismunda, as this gentleman poetically expresses it, " has none of the sober grief, no dignity of suppressed...amorous warmth turned holy by despair ; in short, all is wanting that should have been there, all is there that such a story -would have banished from a... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 726 pages
...usquebaugh, tearing off the ornaments her keeper had given her. To add to the disgust raised by such vulgar expression, her fingers were blooded by her...been there, all was there that such a story should hare banished from a mind capable of conceiving such complicated woe : woe so sternly felt and yet... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Artists - 1827 - 400 pages
...expression, her fingers were *bloodied by her lover's heart that lay before her like that of a sheep's for her dinner. None of the sober grief, no dignity...should have been there, all was there that such a story would have banished from a mind capable of conceiving such complicated woe ; woe so sternly felt and... | |
 | Matthew Pilkington - Painters - 1829 - 586 pages
...raised by such vulgar expression, her fingers were blooded by her lover's heart that lay before her. None of the sober grief, no dignity of suppressed anguish, no involuntary tears, no settled meditation on the fate she meant to meet, no amorous warmth turned holy by despair... | |
 | Characters and characteristics - 1832 - 644 pages
...keeping, and with eyes red with rage and usquebaugh, tearing off the ornaments her keeper had given her. None of the sober grief, no dignity of suppressed...have been there ; all was there that such a story would have banished from a mind capable of conceiving such complicated wo ; wo so sternly felt and... | |
 | Characters and characteristics - 1832 - 512 pages
...keeping, and with eyes red with rage and usquebaugh, tearing oft' the ornaments her keeper had given her. None of the sober grief, no dignity of suppressed...have been there ; all was there that such a story would have banished from a mind capable of conceiving such complicated wo ; wo so sternly felt and... | |
 | William Hogarth - 1833 - 396 pages
...utmost powers of the pencil. Hogarth's Sigismonda, as this gentleman poetically expresses it, " has none of the sober grief, no dignity of suppressed...amorous warmth turned holy by despair ; in short, all is wanting that should have been there, all is there that such a story would have banished from a mind... | |
 | William Hogarth - Art - 1833 - 538 pages
...be transferred to the canvas. * * Hogarth's Sigismunda, as Mr. Walpole poetically expresses it, 'has none of the sober grief, no dignity of suppressed...amorous warmth turned holy by despair ; in short, all is wanting that should have been there, all is there that such a story would have banished from a mind... | |
 | William Hogarth, John Trusler, J. Hogarth, John Nichols - Engraving - 1833 - 344 pages
...utmost powers of the pencil. Hogarth's Sigismonda, as this gentleman poetically expresses it, " has none of the sober grief, no dignity of suppressed...amorous warmth turned holy by despair ; in short, all is wanting that should have been there, all is there that such a story would have banished from a mind... | |
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None of the sober grief, no dignity of suppressed anguish, no involuntary tear, no settled meditation on the fate she meant to meet, no amorous warmth turned holy by despair ;— in short, all was... 
