 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1832 - 358 pages
...own, and I think one of the grandest that has been thought of — but nobody knows it. Hence it is my view to wrap myself in retirement and pursue these...begin to feel I cannot bear trouble of any kind." These were the words of Komney in March, 1794, but they apply to all periods of his life — he was... | |
 | 1830 - 644 pages
...own—and I think one of the grandest that has been thought of—but nobody knows it.—Hence it is my view to wrap myself in retirement, and pursue these...begin to feel I cannot bear trouble of any kind." This letter bears evidence of that morbidness of feeling which Hayley attributed to Romney, and which... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 274 pages
...own, and I think one of the grandest that has been thought of — but nobody knows it. Hence it is my view to wrap myself in retirement and pursue these plans, as I begin to feel 1 cannot bear trouble of any kind." These were the words of Romney in March, 1794, but they apply to... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Art - 1867 - 874 pages
...my own, and I think one of the grandest that has been thought of ; but nobody knows it, Hence, it is my view to wrap myself in retirement and pursue these...begin to feel I cannot bear trouble of any kind." He quits his house in Cavendish Square and becomes the purchaser of a retreat at Holly Bash Hill, Hampstead,... | |
 | Child rearing - 1868 - 268 pages
...own, and I think one of the grandest that has been thought of — but nobody knows it. Hence it is my view to wrap myself in retirement and pursue these...begin to feel I cannot bear trouble of any kind." These were the words of Romney in March, 1794, but they apply to all periods of his life — he was... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - Great Britain - 1897 - 514 pages
...think one of' the grandest that has ever been Romney 198 thought of, but nobody knows. Hence it is my view to wrap myself in retirement, and pursue these...begin to feel I cannot bear trouble of any kind.' To Hayley he wrote : ' I have ideas of them all, and I may say sketches; but, alas ! I cannot give... | |
 | George Paston - 1903 - 314 pages
...and, I think, one of the grandest that has ever been thought of — but nobody knows it. Hence it is my view to wrap myself in retirement and pursue these...begin to feel I cannot bear trouble of any kind." 1 Son of Jeremiah Meyer, the miniature painter. 2 This was engraved for the frontispiece of the second... | |
 | Art - 1903 - 752 pages
...my own, and I think one of the grandest that has been thought of; but nobody knows it. Hence it is my view to wrap myself in retirement and pursue these plans, as I begin to feel that I cannot bear trouble of any kind." He left his house in Cavendish Square and became the purchaser... | |
 | Michael Bryan - Engravers - 1904 - 550 pages
...my own, and I think one of the grandest that has been thought of —but nobody knows it. Hence it is my view to wrap myself in retirement and pursue these...rapidly, both in mind and body. He gave up painting, and in the summer of 1799 he set out for Kendal. His wife tended him till his death with the greatest devotion.... | |
 | Arthur Bensley Chamberlain - 1910 - 528 pages
...own — and I think one of the grandest that has been thought of — but nobody knows it. Hence it is my view to wrap myself in retirement, and pursue these...begin to feel I cannot bear trouble of any kind.' According to the same biographer, Romney ' was naturally of a placid and easy disposition, and it was... | |
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I have made many grand designs ; I have formed a system of original subjects, moral and my own, and I think one of the grandest that has been thought of — but nobody knows it. Hence it is my view to wrap myself in retirement and pursue these plans,... 
