 | John Evelyn - 1878 - 450 oldal
...Gibbon. — An original genius, a citizen of nature. There is no instance before him of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species. It is uncertain whether he was born in Holland, or in England... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1879 - 606 oldal
...equally a master whether born in Italy or Lapland. There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...elements with a free disorder natural to each species. Vertue had received two different accounts of his birth; from Murray the painter, that he was born... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1879 - 292 oldal
...decoration. In the words, again, of Walpole, ' there is no instance of a man before Gibbons, who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...together the various productions of the elements with a fine disorder natural to each species.' LVI. The total sum expended on the Cathedral (dismissing from... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 oldal
...Walpole) before Gibbons had "ever given to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, or linked together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species." His cJief d' œuvre of skill was an imitation point-lace cravat, which he carved at Chatsworth for... | |
 | James Croston - 1882 - 484 oldal
...the evil influ* Gibbons, of whom Horace Walpole said " there was no instance of a man before who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...together the various productions of the elements with a freer disorder natural to each species," died in 1721, and, while there is good reason for supposing... | |
 | Frederick Spencer Bird - 1882 - 376 oldal
...Walpole calls him "an original genius;" and adds, "There is' no instance before him of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species." Gibbons was indebted to Evelyn for his introduction to... | |
 | W. Harlan Cord - 1885 - 564 oldal
...wood-carving in the world, done by the celebrated Grinling Gibbons, of whom it was said : ' ' That he gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species." Here, also, is to be seen the famous stained glass portrait... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 438 oldal
...original genius, a citizen of nature. There is no instance before him," he adds, " of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species. ... It is said that he lived in Belle Sauvage Court, Ludgate... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 418 oldal
...praise which Walpole bestows he richly merited : — ' There is no instance of a man before him who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...elements with a free disorder natural to each species.' He imitated Nature with the faithfulness of a loving eye and the skill of a bold and ready hand. Whatever... | |
 | Thomas Purnell - 1886 - 160 oldal
...as famous visitors. Grinling Gibbons the Dutchman, who, according to Walpole, was the first to give to wood " the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements with a free disorder natural to each species," lived at the upper end of the street, on the right-hand side. On the site of the theatre lived Wycherley,... | |
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There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species. 
