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1843 edition. Excerpt: ...them that much which the church believed
was untrue. In a visit to Sir Richard Elford, he paused for a
moment, he says, to look at the native place of Sir Francis Drake,
and listened with much pleasure to the entertaining anecdotes which
Sir Richard, during dinner, related of Sir Joshua, whom he knew,
and of Johnson, Burke, Goldsmith, and Garrick, whom he had seen;
but of these Wilkie has preserved no sample. For this we are VOL.
I. B sorry; but he has our praise for refraining from remembering
the acrid discussions of Northcote and his coterie, who entered
upon the bitter subject of politics with as little temper and
moderation as I ever remember. Nor was his dislike confined to any
one set of ministers, or to any one form of government; all
established authorities--the church, the law, the army, the
navy--were alike subjected to his animadversions; while the hatred
which he felt for men at home was balanced by his admiration of
Napoleon and his government. In these sentiments the coterie of
North-cote shared, and " I left them with less regret," says
"Wilkie, " than I should have done if their conversation had been
less violent." Of this visit to Devonshire, which lasted about a
month, Wilkie speaks with much pleasure, though he confesses that
the acrid conversations with Northcote were some alloy. As he went
partly with the hope of amending his health, he rode much through
the country, and, what was equally beneficial, bathed frequently in
the sea, which, chilly at first, felt comfortable afterwards and
invigorating. He seems to have given his pencil a complete holiday;
for, saving a.drawing of Harriet Haydon, on which he confesses he
failed to please himself, he made no increase to his list of works;
nor did the portrait which Lady Mul-grave...
General
| Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture, Volume 2 |
| Release date: |
March 2015 |
| Authors: |
Allan Cunningham
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 31mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
542 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-108-07893-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
The arts: general issues >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-108-07893-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781108078931 |
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