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" ... of the art in which English artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature.... "
The Cabinet of Arts: Or, General Instructor in Arts, Science, Trade ... - Page 366
by Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - 1817 - 859 pages
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Memoir of the life and character of ... Edmund Burke; with specimens of his ...

Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention 'of history...of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings...
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The Cabinet of Arts: Or General Instructor in Arts, Science, Trade ...

Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - Agriculture - 1825 - 892 pages
...speaking of the same Phidias, says, — " Neither did this artist, when he carved the image of Jupfler or Minerva, set before him any one human figure, as...imitation of persons, to run too much into minute detail. Then* historical heads and figures too frequently resemble particular portraits ; as was once the custom...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history and...of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits be struck with a sort of divine horronr, and cries...out, Fearfully and wonderfully am I made ! An heath he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings...
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Memoir of the Life and Character of Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His ...

Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history and...of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings...
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The poetical works of ... George Crabbe, with his letters and journals, and ...

George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...in a superior manner, did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history,...of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings...
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The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Illustrated in a ...

Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history and...of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings...
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Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Sir James Prior - 1854 - 840 pages
...in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history and...of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings...
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Life of ... Edmund Burke, revised by the author

sir James Prior - 1854 - 586 pages
...in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history and...of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings...
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The Public and Domestic Life of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke

Peter Burke - Great Britain - 1854 - 346 pages
...in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history and...of the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appears not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere. His paintings...
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