 | Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 374 Seiten
...mob at best bestow their shilling to stare at what they cannot enjoy. " So habituated," says Opie, " are the people of this country to the sight of portraiture...confounded, and wholly unprepared to follow such vigorous nights of imagination as would — as mil be felt and applauded with enthusiasm in a more advanced... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1833 - 292 Seiten
...mob at best bestow their shilling to stare at what they cannot enjoy. "So habituated," says Opie, " are the people of this country to the sight of portraiture...landscape that is not a view of a particular place, ndr a history unless composed of likenesses of the persons represented, and are apt to be staggered,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1831 - 292 Seiten
...mob at best bestow their shilling to stare at what they cannot enjoy. "So habituated," says Opie, " are the people of this country to the sight of portraiture...follow such vigorous flights of imagination as would • — a$ mil be felt and applauded with enthusiasm in a more advanced and liberal stage of criticism.... | |
 | 1832 - 384 Seiten
...ghost to fill the chair of the murderer, has not as yet been properly felt and appreciated according to its merits. So habituated are the people of this...likenesses of the persons represented ; and are apt to he staggered, confounded, and wholly unprepared to follow such vigorous flights of imagination, as... | |
 | 1846 - 292 Seiten
...mob at best bestow their shilling to stave at what they cannot enjoy. " So habituated," says Opie, " are the people of this country to the sight of portraiture...admire a landscape that is not a view of a particular 181 place, nor a history unless composed of likenesses of the persons represented, and are apt to be... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 Seiten
...the eloquent complaint of Opie, in connexion with the same point : — " So habituated," says he, " are the people of this country to the sight of portraiture...follow such vigorous flights of imagination as would — аз will — be felt and applauded with enthusiasm in a more advanced and liberal stage of criticism.... | |
 | James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli - 1848 - 586 Seiten
...ghost to fill the chair of the murderer, has not as yet been properly felt and appreciated according to its merits. So habituated are the people of this...light; they will hardly admire a landscape that is not ' :i view of a particular place, nor a history unless composed of <•' likenesses of the persons represented... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1859 - 288 Seiten
...mob at best bestow their shilling to stare at what they cannot enjoy. "So habituated," says Opie, " are the people of this country to the sight of portraiture...hardly admire a landscape that is not a view of a particulai place, nor a history unless composed of likenesses of the persons represented, and are apt... | |
 | TIMOTHY COLE - 1902 - 454 Seiten
...success in the historical composition. There was really no public demand for it. Opie complained that " so habituated are the people of this country to the...scarcely as yet consider painting in any other light." The painters rarely got beyond the single figure. When they attempted the historical, it was little... | |
 | 1898 - 1002 Seiten
...success in the historical composition. There was really no public demand for it. Opie complained that " so habituated are the people of this country to the...scarcely as yet consider painting in any other light." The painters never got beyond the single figure. When they attempted the historical, it was little... | |
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are the people of this country to the sight of portraiture only, that they can scarcely as yet consider painting in any other light ; they will hardly admire a landscape that is not a view of a particular place, nor a history unless composed of likenesses... 