| John Opie (Maler, Grossbitannien) - Painting - 1809 - 314 pages
...instances of supreme felicity, i by which a man may be said to be lost in his own glory. The thought has been seized with such avidity, and produced so...plagiarism ; the real author is forgotten, and the public,' habituated to consider the incident as naturally a part of the subject, have long ceased to inquire... | |
| John Opie - Painting - 1809 - 312 pages
...to be lost in his own glory. The thought has been seized with such avidity, and produced 'so man}r imitations, that no one is accused of plagiarism ; the real author is forgotten, and the public, habituated to consider the incident as naturally a part of the subject, have long ceased to inquire... | |
| William Coxe - Artists - 1823 - 320 pages
...embodied a thought, at once beautiful, picturesque, and sublime. " This idea," as Opie observes, " has been seized with such avidity, and produced so...plagiarism. The real author is forgotten, and the M 2 public, accustomed to consider this incident as naturally a part of the subject, have long ceased... | |
| Biography - 1834 - 454 pages
...from the infant Christ, is at the same time sublime as an invention. " The idea," as Opie observes, " has been seized with such avidity, and produced so...ceased to inquire when, or by whom, it was invented." Even the angels in the upper part of the picture still receive light from the infant, and the attention... | |
| Art - 1832 - 384 pages
...instances of supreme felicity, by which a man may be said to be lost in his own glory. The thought has been seized with such avidity, and produced so...plagiarism ; the real author is forgotten, and the public, habituated to consider the incident as naturally a part of the subject, have long ceased to inquire... | |
| Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1838 - 520 pages
...from the infant Christ, is at the same time sublime as an invention. " The idea," as Opie observes, " has been seized with such avidity, and produced so...ceased to inquire when, or by whom, it was invented." Even the angels in the upper part of the picture still receive light from the infant, and the attention... | |
| James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli - Painting - 1848 - 586 pages
...instances of supreme felicity,by which a man may be said to be lost in his own glory.' The thought has been seized with such avidity, and produced so...:• the real author is forgotten, and the public, habituated to. consider the incident as naturally a part of the subject, have long ceased to inquire... | |
| Art - 1851 - 490 pages
...rare instances of supreme felicity by which a man may be said to be lost in his own glory. The thought has been seized with such avidity, and produced so...plagiarism. The real author is forgotten ; and the public, habituated to consider the incident as a part of the subject, have long ceased to inquire when or by... | |
| Arthur Thomas Malkin - Biography - 1853 - 542 pages
...from the infant Christ, is at the same time sublime as an invention. " The idea," as Opie observes, " has been seized with such avidity, and produced so...ceased to inquire when, or by whom, it was invented." Even the angels in the upper part of the picture still receive light from the infant, and the attention... | |
| Daniel Huntington - Art - 1838 - 492 pages
...rare instances of supreme felicity by which a man may be said to be lost in his own glory. The thought has been seized with such avidity, and produced so...plagiarism. The real author is forgotten ; and the public, habituated to consider the incident as a part of the subject, have long ceased to inquire when or by... | |
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