National Worthies, Being a Selection from the National Portrait GalleryA. Constable, 1899 - 74 pàgines |
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actor afterwards appointed Apprenticed artist Became Ben Jonson Bishop Born in London buried at Kensal buried at St buried in St buried in Westminster bust sculptured Cambridge Catesby Catherine CATHERINE OF BRAGANZA Charles Church Court Covent Garden daughter Died and buried Died in London Duke Dyck Earl EDWARD EDWIN HENRY LANDSEER Eldest Elected M.P. Elizabeth English engraver Essay Essayist famous father Fawkes France G. F. Watts Godfrey Kneller Grammar School H PLATE Henry VIII House India Ireland James Kensal Green King King's knighted Lady LL.D Lord MARC ISAMBARD BRUNEL Married Miss Master Oxford Painted by G. F. Painted by Sir Painter unknown Parliament Peter Lely Poems Poet portrait Prince published Queen R.A. PLATE Retired Returned to England Richard ROBERT CATESBY ROBERT WINTER SAMUEL Secretary Shakespeare SIR JOHN Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir William succeeded Temple THOMAS Tower Trinity College UNIV OF H UNIV OF PLATE Viscount Westminster Abbey
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Pàgina 64 - ... principles of liberty were the scoff of every grinning courtier, and the Anathema Maranatha of every fawning dean. In every high place, worship was paid to Charles and James, Belial and Moloch ; and England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime, and disgrace to disgrace, till the race accursed of God and man was a second time driven forth, to wander on the face of the earth, and to be a by-word and a shaking of the...
Pàgina 44 - The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little. Serious business was a trifle to him, and trifles were his serious business.
Pàgina 63 - And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again,* But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on, to make them sport ; Demanded for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satire, song, and play ; The world defrauded of the high design, Profaned the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
Pàgina 46 - Considered as a painter of individuality in the human form and mind, I think him, even as it is, the prince of portrait painters. Titian paints nobler pictures, and Vandyke had nobler subjects, but neither of them entered so subtly as Sir Joshua did into the minor varieties of human heart and temper...
Pàgina 39 - But though we cannot with truth describe him either as a righteous or as a merciful ruler, we cannot regard without admiration the amplitude and fertility of his intellect, his rare talents for command, for administration, and for controversy, his dauntless courage, his honourable poverty, his fervent zeal for the interests of the state, his noble equanimity, tried by both extremes of fortune, and never disturbed by either.
Pàgina 30 - Southey, I have not seen much of. His appearance is Epic; and he is the only existing entire man of letters. All the others have some pursuit annexed to their authorship. His manners are mild, but not those of a man of the world, and his talents of the first order. His prose is perfect. Of his poetry there are various opinions : there is, perhaps, too much of it for the present generation ; — posterity will probably select. He has passages equal to any thing. At present, he has a party, but no...
Pàgina 38 - ENLARGED THE RESOURCES OF HIS COUNTRY, INCREASED THE POWER OF MAN, AND ROSE TO AN EMINENT PLACE AMONG THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS FOLLOWERS OF SCIENCE AND THE REAL BENEFACTORS OF THE WORLD.
Pàgina 64 - ... out of his hand. But the sheriff forced him to take it up : and at three or four more strokes he severed his head from his body : and both were presently buried in the chapel of the tower. Thus lived and died this unfortunate young man. He had several good qualities in him, and some that were as bad.
Pàgina 68 - There is no spectacle in the history of literature more touching and sublime than Milton blind, poor, persecuted, and alone, " fallen upon evil days and evil tongues, with dangers and with darkness compassed round," retiring into obscurity to compose those immortal Epics which have placed him among the greatest poets of all time.
Pàgina 53 - I was pleased with the reply of a gentleman, who, being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, " Shakspeare :" being asked which he esteemed next best, replied,