The Life of Sir David Wilkie: With His Journals, Tours, and Critical Remarks on Works of Art; and a Selection from His Correspondence, 3권J. Murray, 1843 |
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Admiral agreeable appearance artist BART beautiful Beyrout Calder House called Canvas Captain character cheers church Collins colours Constantinople Correggio D. W. JOURNAL D. W. TO MISS D. W. TO SIR Dear Sir drawing dress Duke Duke of Wellington engraving excellent Exhibition favour feel figures gallery genius give head honour impression interest Jaffa Jerusalem John Knox journey Kensington kind King Knox labours LADY BAIRD land letter look Majesty Mehemet Ali Michael Angelo mind MISS WILKIE mosque night o'clock object Pacha painted painter palace Panel picture pleased portrait present Queen Raphael remarkable Rembrandt Royal Academy Rubens scene seems seen sent Sir David Baird Sir David Wilkie Sir Peter Laurie Sir Robert Peel SIR WILLIAM KNIGHTON sitting sketch splendid style Sultan Syria taste thing THOMAS WILKIE thought Titian town Turkish Vandyke whole Wilkie's Woodburn young
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378 페이지 - If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
142 페이지 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
81 페이지 - Juan Perez de Marchena, happening to pass by, was struck with the appearance of the stranger, and observing from his air and accent that he was a foreigner, entered into conversation with him, and soon learned the particulars of his story. That stranger was Columbus.
373 페이지 - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
371 페이지 - ... to refer at once to the localities of Scripture events, when the great work is to be essayed of representing Scripture history. Great as the assistance, I might say the inspiration, which the art of painting has derived from the illustration of Christianity, and great as the talent and genius have been this high walk of art has called into being, yet it is remarkable that none of the great painters to whom the world has hitherto looked for the visible appearance of Scripture scenes and feelings...
272 페이지 - Castle and the Old Town, brought within the cliffs of the Trosachs and watered by a river like the Tay.
18 페이지 - Wilkie alone could have painted, with that exquisite feeling of nature that characterizes his enchanting productions. The body was laid in its coffin within the wooden bedstead which the young fisher had occupied while alive. At a little distance stood the father, whose rugged weather-beaten countenance, shaded by his...
372 페이지 - Judea, 2,500 feet above the level of the sea. Except the Mount of Olives scarce any hill near rises above her. Her walls, which encompass her on every side, are higher and more superb than any city walls I have ever seen. The square towers of her gates recall those of Windsor Castle ; while their lengthened elevation, with the spires and cupolas they enclose, would have arrested the Poussins and Claudes in preference to all other cities. Her streets are stonebuilt, massive, surmounted by arches,...
9 페이지 - The applause of the exquisite few is better than that of the ignorant many, but I like to reverse received maxims. Give me the many who have admired in different ages Raphael and Claude, and I will give up the exquisite few who can admit of no deterioration of a system that has not yet the trial of time to recommend it : take simplicity from art, and away goes all its influence.