An Inquiry Into the History, Authenticity, & Characteristics of the Shakspeare Portraits: In which the Criticisms of Malone, Steevens, Boaden, & Others, are Examined, Confirmed, Or Refuted. Embracing the Felton, the Chandos, the Duke of Somerset's Pictures, the Droeshout Print, and the Monument of Shakspeare, at Stratford; Together with an Exposé of the Spurious Pictures and Prints, Band 2The author, 1827 - 254 Seiten |
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... nose , and the cheek bones , which are parts of the face less likely to change or show any material difference , but the more fleshy parts are liable to changes , by debility of constitution , and each period of life , in the above two ...
... nose , and the cheek bones , which are parts of the face less likely to change or show any material difference , but the more fleshy parts are liable to changes , by debility of constitution , and each period of life , in the above two ...
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... nose , and the thin beard of the picture one would think . Nothing like it . Marshall saw no picture . Droeshout was his original ; only , that having reduced it as to size , he was unable , with all his skill , to give a tithe of the ...
... nose , and the thin beard of the picture one would think . Nothing like it . Marshall saw no picture . Droeshout was his original ; only , that having reduced it as to size , he was unable , with all his skill , to give a tithe of the ...
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... nose , which seemed the operation of heat rather than age . I remember the difficult task Mr. Boydell described , when he afterwards , by softening the paint , and pressing with the pallet knife , succeeded in fixing these warped and ...
... nose , which seemed the operation of heat rather than age . I remember the difficult task Mr. Boydell described , when he afterwards , by softening the paint , and pressing with the pallet knife , succeeded in fixing these warped and ...
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... nose , he might have added the small piece to the ruff , and which is not so neat as might have been done ; there are two or three places in the left cheek mended , about the size of a pea , the eye on the same side of the face is a ...
... nose , he might have added the small piece to the ruff , and which is not so neat as might have been done ; there are two or three places in the left cheek mended , about the size of a pea , the eye on the same side of the face is a ...
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... nose and mouth , the painter has certainly given more of nature and the true proportion which constitutes beauty . There is also some difference in the character of the nose.-A. W. art among us seven years before the assigned date of ...
... nose and mouth , the painter has certainly given more of nature and the true proportion which constitutes beauty . There is also some difference in the character of the nose.-A. W. art among us seven years before the assigned date of ...
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admirers afterwards appearance artist asserted authenticity bard beard Ben Jonson Boaden Britton certainly Chandos picture Chandos portrait character circumstance coloured copy Cornelius Jansen David Garrick doubt drawing dress Droeshout Droeshout's print Dunford Earlom edition engraved evidence exhibited expression eyes Felton picture folio forehead Garrick gentleman genuine portrait George Steevens give Gopsal guineas hair head of Shakspeare Holder honour immortal Bard inscription Ireland James Jennens John Jonson letter lines London Malone Martin Droeshout mezzotinto miniature Monumental Bust never NICHOLAS HILLIARD nose observe opinion original picture oval Ozias Humphry painted painter person picture of Shakspeare plate poet poet's portrait of Shakspeare possession pounds proved published purchased remark resemblance residence Richard Burbage says sculpt seen Shak Shakspeare's shew Simon's Sir Joshua Soest sold speare Stace Steevens Stratford Stratford-upon-Avon Street style supposed Talma taste Vertue Wivell Zincke Zoust Zucchero
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Seite 22 - Reader THIS Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but have drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face; the Print would then surpasse All, that was ever writ in brasse. But, since he cannot, Reader, looke Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
Seite 181 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Seite 93 - ... lana Tarentino violas imitata veneno. Ac ne forte putes me, quae facere ipse recusem, cum recte tractent alii, laudare maligne, ille per extentum funem mihi posse videtur 210 ire poeta, meum qui pectus inaniter angit, irritat, mulcet, falsis terroribus implet, ut magus, et, modo me Thebis, modo ponit Athenis.
Seite 155 - I can now excuse all his foibles ; impute them to age, and to distress of circumstances : the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having, at least in one production, generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense ; to be forced to drink himself into pains of •William. VOL. 9 — 99 337 the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery.
Seite 114 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Seite 19 - The fire having continued all this night (if I may call that night which was light as day for ten miles round about, after a dreadful manner) when conspiring with a fierce...
Seite 136 - Olympvs habet. Stay, passenger, why goest thov by so fast ? Read, if thov canst, whom enviovs Death hath plast Within this monvment : SHAKSPEARE : with whome Qvick Natvre dide ; whose name doth deck y» tombe Far more than cost ; sieth all yt he hath writt Leaves living art bvt page to serve his witt. Obiit Ano. Doi. 1616. ^Etatis 53. Die. 23. Ap.
Seite 50 - Shakespeare, thy gift, I place before my sight; With awe, I ask his blessing ere I write ; With reverence look on his majestic face; Proud to be less, but of his godlike race.
Seite 124 - Contend, the leaders of a public cause ; Approach : behold this marble. Know ye not The features ( Hath not oft his faithful tongue Told you the fashion of your own estate, The secrets of your bosom ? Here then, round His monument with reverence while ye stand, Say to each other :
Seite 19 - I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods ; such a strange consternation there was upon them...