 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1822 - 344 pages
...with a high cultivation of the fine arts ; and such appears to have been the feeling of most artists. When MICHAEL ANGELO was asked why he did not marry, he replied, " I have espoused my art ; and it occasions me sufficient domestic cares, for my works shall be my... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1839 - 418 pages
...with a high cultivation of-the fine arts ; and such appears to have been the feeling of most artists. When MICHAEL ANGELO was asked why he did not marry, he replied, " I have espoused my art ; and it occasions me sufficient domestic cares, for my works shall be my... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 462 pages
...with a high cultivation of the fine arts ; and such appears to have been the feeling of most artists. When MICHAEL ANGELO was asked why he did not marry, he replied, " I have espoused my art; and it occasions me sudicient domestic cares, for my works shall be my children.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...flower, and your equal — woman I" Matrimony has been supposed uncongenial with literary pursuits. When Michael Angelo was asked why he did not marry, he replied, " I have espoused my art, and it occasions me sufficient domestic cares, for my works shall be my children."... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1867 - 494 pages
...with a high cultivation of the fine arts; and such appears to have been the feeling of most artists. When MICHAEL ANGELO was asked why he did not marry, he replied, " I have espoused my art ; and it occasions me sufficient domestic cares, for my works shall be my... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 202 pages
...sweets in the honeycomb of some great thought or work, his finest conceptions will be lost or useless. When Michael Angelo was asked why he did not marry, he replied, " Painting is my wife, and my works are my children." " Mr. often laughs at me," said a learned chemist, " because... | |
 | William Mathews - Success - 1874 - 386 pages
...sweets in the honeycomb of some great thought or work, his finest conceptions will be lost or useless. When Michael Angelo was asked why he did not marry, he replied, " Painting is my wife, and my works are my children." " Mr. A. often laughs at me," said a learned American chemist,... | |
 | William Mathews - History - 1874 - 376 pages
...sweets in the honeycomb of some great thought or work, his finest conceptions will be lost or useless. When Michael Angelo was asked why he did not marry, he replied, "Painting is my wife, and my works are my children." "Mr. A. often laughs at me," said a learned American chemist,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 604 pages
...with a high cultivation of the fine arts ; and such appears to have been the feeling of most artists. When Michael Angelo was asked why he did not marry, he replied, " I have espoused my art; and it occasions me sufficient domestic cares, for my works shall be my children.... | |
 | William Mathews - Success - 1883 - 396 pages
...sweets in the honeycomb of some great thought or work, his finest conceptions will be lost or useless. When Michael Angelo was asked why he did not marry, he replied, " Painting is my wife, and my works are my children." " Mr. A. often laughs at me," said a learned American chemist,... | |
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... to the domestic life of genius, accompanied as it must be by many embarrassments for the head and the heart. It was an axiom with Fuessli, the Swiss artist, that the marriage state is incompatible with a high cultivation of the fine arts; and such... 