 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1853 - 388 pages
...these discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy,...this place, might be the name of Michael Angelo." His last visit to the Academy seemed once on the point of ending tragically. There were present, besides... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 pages
...address, in which he expressed his enthusiastic admiration of Buonarotti, saying : " 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." Sir Joshua died, after a confinement of three months, on the 23d ot vi. 2... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1854 - 1272 pages
...these discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this academy,...this place, might be the name of Michael Angelo." Duppa's " Life of Michael Angelo," sir Joshua Keynoldâ's " Discourses," &c. BOND. The manner of making... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1856 - 434 pages
...of them. Sir Joshua concluded the lecture by saying, with great emotion, " And I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy...this place might be the name of — Michael Angelo." As he descended from the rostrum, Burke went up to him, took his hand, and said, "The Angel ended,... | |
 | John Scandrett Harford - 1857 - 418 pages
...these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy...this place, might be the name of Michael Angelo." * Supposed to be Pieti, in St. Peter's at Rome. PRINCIPAL PUBLISHED i LETTERS OF MICHAEL ANGELO. INCLUDING... | |
 | Thomas John Gullick - 1859 - 356 pages
...the President, concluding in solemn silence the last of his Discourses, said, " I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy,...this place, might be the name of MICHAEL ANGELO." * A large chromo-lithograph of the whole ceiling has been published by Messrs. Colnaghi, Pall-Mail.... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 394 pages
...these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy,...fourteen months after this Discourse was delivered. — M. FA4127.1.3 The life and writings of Sir Joshua AYE1644 3 2044 033 838 756 THE BORROWER WILL... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 424 pages
...of them. Sir Joshua coneluded the lecture by saying, with great emotion : ' And I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy...this place might be the name of — Michael Angelo.' As he descended from the rostrum, Burke went up to him, took his hand, and said, — ' The Angel ended,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 398 pages
...these discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy,...this place, might be the name of Michael Angelo." His last visit to the Academy seemed once on the point of ending tragically. There were present, besides... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1888 - 628 pages
...Joshua's Ia3t appearance as a lecturer ? He concluded his discourse saying : " And I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy,...and from this place, might be the name of Michael Angela." When he had concluded, Burke went up to him, took his hand, and said — " The Angel ended,... | |
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I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite. I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should desire that the last words... 
