 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1838 - 512 pages
...sell, and drawing sketches to amuse the lady and the children. He was above all this, and honourably resolved to cultivate his taste for painting, and...sense of beauty .derived from the best source, that as, the observation of really good society, while, in many modern artists, .the want of that species... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 380 pages
...sell, and drawing sketches to amuse the lady and the children. He was above all this, and honourably resolved to cultivate his taste for painting, and...from the best source, that is, the observation of really good society, while, in many modern artists, the want of that species of feeling is so great... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 384 pages
...sell, and drawing sketches to amuse the lady and the children. He was above all this, and honourably resolved to cultivate his taste for painting, and...from the best source,, that is, the observation of really good society, while, in many modern artists, the want of that species of feeling is so great... | |
 | William Sandby - Artists - 1862 - 496 pages
...acquired, nor did Frank's talent lie in that direction. His passion for painting turned out better. ... I am no judge of painting, but I am conscious that...from the best source — that is, the observation of really good society. . . . His former acquaintances render his immediate entrance into business completely... | |
 | William Sandby - Artists, British - 1862 - 492 pages
...acquired, nor did Frank's talent lie in that direction. His passion for painting turned out better. ... I am no judge of painting, but I am conscious that...cleverness, a sense of beauty derived from the best source—that is, the observation of really good society. . . . His former acquaintances render his... | |
 | William Sandby - Artists, British - 1862 - 492 pages
...acquired, nor did Frank's talent lie in that direction. His passion for painting turned out better. ... I am no judge of painting, but I am conscious that...cleverness, a sense of beauty derived from the best source—that is, the observation of really good society. . . . His former acquaintances render his... | |
 | Charles Knight - Biography - 1867 - 514 pages
...and the children. He was above all this, aud honourably resolved to cultivate his taste for paintiug, and become a professional artist. I am no judge of...with much cleverness, a sense of beauty derived from tho best source, that is, the observation of really good society. . . . His former acquaintances render... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 384 pages
...sell, and drawing sketches to amuse the lady and the children. He was above all this, and honourably resolved to cultivate his taste for painting, and...from the best source, that is, the observation of really good society, while, in many modern artists, the want of that species of feeling is so great... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 386 pages
...sell, and drawing sketches to amuse the lady and the children. He was above all this, and honourably resolved to cultivate his taste for painting, and...from the best source, that is, the observation of really good society, while, in many modern artists, the want of that species of feeling is so great... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1890 - 538 pages
...the rank of the laird's father. March 26. — Grant was above all this, and honourably and manfully resolved to cultivate his taste for painting, and...conscious that Francis Grant possesses, with much taste, a sense of beauty derived from the best source, that of really good society, while in many modern... | |
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He was above all this, and honourably resolved to cultivate his taste for painting, and become a professional artist. I am no judge of painting, but I am conscious that Francis Grant possesses, with much cleverness, a sense of beauty derived from the... 
