| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Art - 1867 - 660 pages
...sovereign of the realms of grace ; See Angelo, with energy divine, Seize on the summit of correct design ; Learn how at Julio's birth the muses smiled, And in their mystic caverns nurs'd the child ; Bright beyond all the rest, Correggio flings His ample lights, and round them gently... | |
| Sir Charles Lock Eastlake - Art - 1870 - 364 pages
...poem, Sir Joshua Reynolds, as is well known, appended notes. The passage in question is as follows : " Learn how, at Julio's birth, the Muses smiled, And in their mystic caverns nursed the child, How, by the Aonian powers their smile bestowed, His pencil with poetic fervour glow'd. In these cases the spirit... | |
| Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...sovereign of the realms of grace : See Angelo, with energy divine, Seize on the summit of correct design : Learn how, at Julio's birth, the Muses smiled, And...in their mystic caverns nursed the child ; How, by the Aonian powers their smile bestowed, His pencil with poetic fervour glowed ; When faintly verse... | |
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