Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Last and Two Preceding Centuries, Bind 3T. Cadell, and W. Davies, 1804 |
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Side 47 - His line is uniformly grand. Character and beauty were admitted only as far as they could be made subservient to grandeur.
Side 48 - Julio the second only excepted ; and in him he represented the reigning passion rather than the man. In painting he contented himself with a negative colour, and, as the painter of mankind, rejected all meretricious ornament. The fabric of St Peter, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramante and his successors, he concentrated ; suspended the cupola, and, to the most complex, gave the air of the most simple of edifices.
Side 238 - I have fuffered for her glory and fervice; and will be fo juft and pious as not to let the children of him that has brought to Spain fuch immenfe riches, and added to its dominions vaft and unknown kingdoms and empires, want bread, or fubfift only upon alms.
Side 262 - Champagne in the characteriftic ** excellencies of that fprightly liquor. " We had not remained long in this Caravanfera ** (for fuch is the proper name for the place of " hofpitality in which we were received), when " the drefs, manners, and converfation of our " fellow-travellers ftrongly excited our attention, " and afforded fcope for boundlefs fpeculation.
Side 192 - ' it is your duty to " fall upon your knees to God, and not to fb " frail and feeble a mortal as I am." Guftavus, differently from our modern Generals, never engaged in any battle without firft praying at the head of the troops he was about to lead towards the enemy, fometimes with and fometimes without book.
Side 349 - England advanced along the causeway (which I mentioned before) very nobly attended, with the air and presence of a king: there were in his train his brother the Duke of Clarence, the Earl of Northumberland, his chamberlain...
Side 401 - that magic of light and fhade, which he pof" fefled in an unparalleled degree in his fmaller " pictures, as an inferior principle in a work of " fuch dignity, or was unable to diffufe it over "numerous groups, cannot now be determined; " but he left his frefco flat, and without that " folemnity of twilight, which is more than an " equivalent for thofe contrafts of Chiarofcuro " that Giorgionc is faid to have learnt from him.
Side 127 - Kings, &c. to heretics, or to perfons accufed of herefy, in hopes of reclaiming them, ought not to be of any prejudice to the Catholic faith, nor to the...
Side 62 - ... he cast his eyes on two bottles in a corner of the room, one of which was full of oil, and the other of water : and in his hurry, he unfortunately seized on the oil, and poured it upon the fire, which made it blaze so violently, that he was forced to walk off. On his back was written Leo X.
Side 308 - The Sultan having sent one of his generals to the king, to demand a very considerable sum of money for his ransom...