 | English literature - 1818 - 606 pages
...price, he said £100. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the worke was very strong ; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 622 pages
...price, he said ,£10O. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the worke was very strong ; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...price, he said £100. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the worke was very strong ; in the peice were more than 100 figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1820 - 422 pages
...chapel of Trinity College, Oxford. He also executed the bronze statue of James II, now in Scotland Yard. and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the worke was very strong; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise... | |
 | James Elmes - Art - 1825 - 322 pages
...one hundred pounds. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons...likewise musical and very civil, sober and discreet. Of this young artist, and the manner of finding him out, I acquainted the king, and begged that he... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 374 pages
...one hundred pounds. In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons...likewise musical and very civil, sober and discreet. Of this young artist, and the manner of finding him out, I acquainted the king, and begged that he... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1820 - 384 pages
...very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the (lowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong...likewise musical and very civil, sober and discreet. Of this young artist, and the manner of finding him out, I acquainted the king, and begged that he... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1830 - 466 pages
...yet a beginner, but would not be sorry to sell off that piece : on demanding his price, he said, an hundred pounds. In good earnest the very frame was...work was very strong : in the piece were more than an hundred figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise musical ; and very civil, sober, and discreet... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 614 pages
...hundred pounds. In good earnest, the very frame was worth the money, there being in nature nothing во tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about...work was very strong ; in the piece were more than an hundred figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise musical ; and very civil, sober, and discreet... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...price, he said £lOO In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothinz in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons...it, and yet the work was very strong ; in the piece was more than 100 figures of men, &c. I found he was likewise musical, and very civil, sober, and discreet... | |
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In good earnest the very frame was worth the money, there being nothing in nature so tender and delicate as the flowers and festoons about it, and yet the work was very strong; in the piece were more than 100 figures of men, &c. 
