The life of Henry FuseliH. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 - 439 էջ |
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Henry Fuseli John Knowles. of " The Nightmare . " - Death of Fuseli's Father . - Visit to Mr. Roscoe at Liverpool . - Fuseli's singular engagement to revise Cowper's Iliad . - Three Letters from Mr. Cowper.- Anecdotes of Fuseli and Dr ...
Henry Fuseli John Knowles. of " The Nightmare . " - Death of Fuseli's Father . - Visit to Mr. Roscoe at Liverpool . - Fuseli's singular engagement to revise Cowper's Iliad . - Three Letters from Mr. Cowper.- Anecdotes of Fuseli and Dr ...
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... Caspar Füessli , was born on the 7th February , 1741 , N.S. at Zurich , in Switzerland , which city had been the native place of his family for many generations . His father , John Caspar , a painter of por- B 2 HENRY FUSELI . 3.
... Caspar Füessli , was born on the 7th February , 1741 , N.S. at Zurich , in Switzerland , which city had been the native place of his family for many generations . His father , John Caspar , a painter of por- B 2 HENRY FUSELI . 3.
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Henry Fuseli John Knowles. His father , John Caspar , a painter of por- traits and sometimes of landscapes , was distin ... father's profession as a painter , and afterwards , settling at Vienna , became librarian to the 4 THE LIFE OF .
Henry Fuseli John Knowles. His father , John Caspar , a painter of por- traits and sometimes of landscapes , was distin ... father's profession as a painter , and afterwards , settling at Vienna , became librarian to the 4 THE LIFE OF .
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... father , had travelled much , and was not unacquainted with the manners of courts , and could practise , when he thought proper , those of a courtier , yet he had assumed the carriage of an in- dependent man of the world , and acquired ...
... father , had travelled much , and was not unacquainted with the manners of courts , and could practise , when he thought proper , those of a courtier , yet he had assumed the carriage of an in- dependent man of the world , and acquired ...
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... father kept ; indeed , he may be said to have been rocked in his cradle by the Muses , -for Solomon Gessner was his god- father . This poet and painter was the intimate friend of the elder Fuseli , and addressed to him an elaborate ...
... father kept ; indeed , he may be said to have been rocked in his cradle by the Muses , -for Solomon Gessner was his god- father . This poet and painter was the intimate friend of the elder Fuseli , and addressed to him an elaborate ...
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Էջ 364 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Էջ 204 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course; they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Էջ 216 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Էջ 213 - Shall bring on men." Immediately a place Before his eyes appear'd, sad, noisome, dark ; A lazar-house it seem'd, wherein were laid Numbers of all...
Էջ 216 - To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend...
Էջ 203 - In billows, leave i' th' midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Էջ 207 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Էջ 215 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell...
Էջ 210 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat! Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Էջ 217 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...