New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 25Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1829 |
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... Canova's statue has the air of translation from a painting . This is the besetting and clinging sin of all his Italian predecessors . David and his school have fallen into the opposite vice , and may often be justly accused of doing ...
... Canova's statue has the air of translation from a painting . This is the besetting and clinging sin of all his Italian predecessors . David and his school have fallen into the opposite vice , and may often be justly accused of doing ...
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... Canova has looked at Michael Angelo , but remained himself . The anatomy , the gravity , the austerity of the mighty founder have been admired ; but Canova has spread in profusion qualities which might not less have warranted the admi ...
... Canova has looked at Michael Angelo , but remained himself . The anatomy , the gravity , the austerity of the mighty founder have been admired ; but Canova has spread in profusion qualities which might not less have warranted the admi ...
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... Canova are , more than any other I have ever seen , the perfect reflections of the man's character , as well as of his mind . It has been questioned rather too generally , how far the " moral " of a writer is likely to be mirrored in ...
... Canova are , more than any other I have ever seen , the perfect reflections of the man's character , as well as of his mind . It has been questioned rather too generally , how far the " moral " of a writer is likely to be mirrored in ...
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Twentyeight and Twentynine | 9 |
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Sketches of Parisian Society Politics and Literature | 105 |
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