 | American periodicals - 1842 - 654 pages
...greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen,...noble matrons. It had , induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition —... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 642 pages
...greatest scholar of the age. The speataclc had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen,...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, —... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen,...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition —... | |
 | Scotland - 1849 - 864 pages
...greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to as the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen,...suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, iii. 205, 206. from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition... | |
 | England - 1849 - 822 pages
...spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which had preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of s-.> many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of...suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine * Critical and MisceUaneo/ui Essays, iii. 206, 206. 338 Mac au lay 's Hittory of England. 389 *from... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 742 pages
...greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which had preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen,...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition —... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen,...Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mite from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition—a treasure too often buried in the... | |
 | James Dennistoun - Art, Renaissance - 1851 - 520 pages
...its force has shown. " ADDISON. " That easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful countenances of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons." MACAULAY. IT would occupy a full chapter were we to trace the history of what Julius II. meant to have... | |
 | Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen,...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition —... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 416 pages
...allured Reynolds from the easel which has perpetuated so many HISTORY OF EUROPE. 9Э поЫе foreheads ; it had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that...dark and profound mine from which he had extracted so vast a treasure of erudition.* Yet amidst all this stately presence was the eye riveted by the dauntless... | |
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There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so... 
