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... London , and attained great eminence as a portrait painter ; upon which he was admitted as an associate of the Royal Academy , and was eventually elected Professor of Painting in that institution . " Born in a rank of life in which the ...
... London , and attained great eminence as a portrait painter ; upon which he was admitted as an associate of the Royal Academy , and was eventually elected Professor of Painting in that institution . " Born in a rank of life in which the ...
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... London ; but had already begun to distinguish himself as a lecturer and anatomical demonstrator . To him John determined to address himself . The rumour of the one brother's success and growing reputation had probably , even before this ...
... London ; but had already begun to distinguish himself as a lecturer and anatomical demonstrator . To him John determined to address himself . The rumour of the one brother's success and growing reputation had probably , even before this ...
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... London when he was considered by his brother as qualified to teach others , and was at- tended accordingly by a class of his own . His talents , and the patronage of his brother together , brought him now every day more and more into no ...
... London when he was considered by his brother as qualified to teach others , and was at- tended accordingly by a class of his own . His talents , and the patronage of his brother together , brought him now every day more and more into no ...
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... London , he entered himself of St. Mary's Hall , Oxford , probably with the view of being able to maintain at least some pretension to scholarship , but it does not appear that he carried his assump- tion of the academical character ...
... London , he entered himself of St. Mary's Hall , Oxford , probably with the view of being able to maintain at least some pretension to scholarship , but it does not appear that he carried his assump- tion of the academical character ...
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... London , in a state of com- plete destitution ; but although he had never received any regular education , he had before this made a few attempts at verse - making , and in his extremity he be- thought him of turning his talent in this ...
... London , in a state of com- plete destitution ; but although he had never received any regular education , he had before this made a few attempts at verse - making , and in his extremity he be- thought him of turning his talent in this ...
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Page 81 - That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine...
Page 223 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Page 220 - ... and a glass of water, had the rest of the time till their return for study, in which I made the greater progress, from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking.
Page 21 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 221 - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity.
Page 380 - The collection of Songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is.
Page 298 - Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 224 - I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Page 377 - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 219 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind and make me master of it.