 | John Aikin - 1815 - 506 pagine
...all her forms. But though in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights, few equalled, and fewer excelled him, his grandeur is oftener allied...calmness and tranquillity. Figures, it is difficult to say which of the two introduced or handled with greater infelicity." Mr. F. proceeds, WIL " Wilson... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 556 pagine
...all her forms. But though in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights few equalled, and fewer excelled -him, his grandeur is oftener allied...calmness and tranquillity. Figures, it is difficult to say, which of the two introduced or handled with greater infelicity : treated by Claude or Wilson,... | |
 | 1817 - 552 pagine
...all her forms. But though in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights few equalled, and fewer excelled him, his grandeur is oftener allied...calmness and tranquillity. Figures, it is difficult to say, which of the two introduced or handled with greater infelicity : treated by Claude or Wilson,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 748 pagine
...her forms. But in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights, he has seldom been equalled ; his grandeur is oftener allied to terror, bustle and convulsion, than to calmness and tranquillity. " Wilson,1' says Mr Fuseli, " is now numbered with the classics of the art, and though little more... | |
 | 1820 - 746 pagine
...her forms. But in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights, he has seldom been equalled ; his grandeur is oftener allied to terror, bustle and convulsion, than to calmness and tranquillity. " Wilson,'1 says Mr Fuseli, " is now numbered with the classics of the art, and though little more... | |
 | Robert Hasell Newell - 1821 - 236 pagine
...all her forms. But though, in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights, few equalled, and fewer excelled him ; his grandeur is oftener allied...calmness and tranquillity. Figures, it is difficult to say, which of the two introduced or handled with greater infelicity. Treated by Gaude or Wilson,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pagine
...her forms. But, though in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights few have equalled and fewer excelled him, his grandeur is oftener allied...and convulsion, than to calmness and tranquillity. He is now numbered with the classics of the art, though little more than the fifth part of a century... | |
 | 1830 - 658 pagine
...her forms. But, though in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights few have equalled and fewer excelled him, his grandeur is oftener allied...terror, bustle, and convulsion, than to calmness and tranquillity.'—vol. 1. p. 202. Of Wilson's enthusiastic ardour in his profession, the following anecdote... | |
 | 1831 - 552 pagine
...her forms. But though in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights, few have equalled, and fewer excelled him, his grandeur is oftener allied...and convulsion, than to calmness and tranquillity. He is now numbered with the classics of the art, though little more than the fifth part of a century*... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pagine
...freshness and silent evening lights, few equalled, and fewer excelled him, his grandeur is offener allied to terror, bustle, and convulsion, than to...calmness and tranquillity. Figures, it is difficult to say which of the two introduced or handled with greater infelicity." It is hardly fair, however,... | |
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Wilson,' says Fuseli, discoursing on art in 1801, ' observed nature in all her appearances, and had a characteristic touch for all her forms. But, though in effects of dewy freshness and silent evening lights few have equalled and fewer excelled him,... 
