 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1872 - 610 pages
...attempt to give utterance to the emotion called up by his power; concerning whom Reynolds said, " I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite;" of whom Fuseli wrote, " His women are moulds of generation, his infants teem with the man, his men... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 pages
...the slightest of his perfections, would be glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man. I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of...sensations as he intended to excite. I reflect, not VOL. n. M without vanity, that these discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1878 - 188 pages
...contentions, and noble well-wishings for the future of the Academy. He closed with the sentence : " I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses...divine man ; and I should desire that the last words I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of MICHAEL ANGELO." Thereupon... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1879 - 196 pages
...contentions, and noble well-wishinga for the future of the Academy. He closed with the sentence : " I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses...divine man ; and I should desire that the last words I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of MICHAEL ANGELO." Thereupon... | |
 | Sir Edward John Poynter (bart.) - 1879 - 304 pages
...to give utterance to the emotion called up by his power. As when Reynolds impressively says, "I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite;" and Fuseli, "His women are moulds of generation, his infants teem with the man, his men are a race... | |
 | Sir Edward John Poynter (bart.) - 1879 - 306 pages
...give utterance to the emotion called up by his power. As when Reynolds impressively says, " I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite;" and Fuseli, "His women are moulds of generation, his infants teem with the man, his men are a race... | |
 | Clara Erskine Clement Waters - 1887 - 386 pages
...alluded to the recent troubles. He ended by speaking of the great master of the world, and said : " I reflect, not without vanity, that these discourses...divine man ; and I should desire that the last words I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of MICHAEL ANGELO." It was... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - 1887 - 488 pages
...with a striking passage : ' I feel a 1 self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such great sensations as he intended to excite. I reflect, not...divine man, and I should desire that the last words I should pronounce in this Academy and from this place should be the name of Michael Angelo.' He came... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 366 pages
...Michael Angelo." Sir Joshua Reynolds, two centuries later, declared to the British Institution, " I feel a selfcongratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite." A man of such habits and such deeds, made good his pretensions to a perception and to delineation of... | |
 | Sir Claude Phillips - 1894 - 474 pages
...has recognised himself to be too imperfectly equipped. The concluding passage is as follows : — " I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses...divine man ; and I should desire that the last words I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of Michael Angelo." Leslie... | |
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I reflect not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration * Che Raffaelle non ebbe quest" arte da nutura, ma per lunyo studio. of that truly divine man, and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this... 
