 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.  The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - 第 482 頁John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees 著 - 1802完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 420 頁
...contemplates these beautiful productions. " There is no instance," he says, " of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements with a free disorder, natural to each species." This is a high compliment, but those who visit this noble mansion will not regard it as overstrained.... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 1824 - 380 頁
...ornamented with carvings by Gibbons, who was the first, according to Walpole, who succeeded in giving to wood " the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements, with a free disorder natural to each species." In the chancel, or semicircular recess at the east end, stands the communion table. What is called... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 1824 - 392 頁
...assigned to the celebrated Neapolitan artist, Verrio. Grinlin Gibbons, who, as Horace Walpole says, " gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers...together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species," was also liberally employed in the exercise of his art... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 332 頁
...He richly merited the happy compliment of Walpole : " There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." He was, however, much assisted at Chatsworth. The designs are from the pencil of Gibbons, and much... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 466 頁
...He richly merited the happy compliment of Walpole : " There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." He was, however, much assisted at Chatsworth. The designs are from the pencil of Gibbons, and much/... | |
 | Stephen Glover - 1830 - 214 頁
...eminent Gibbons, we may observe, with Horace Walpole, " that there is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." It is certain that much of this beautiful carved work at Chatsworth was executed by Watson, who studied... | |
 | Thomas Dugdale - 1830 - 334 頁
...carved I ornaments by Gibbons ; of whom Walpole observed, that he was the first j artist, "who gave the wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and...elements, with a free disorder natural to each species." "At Burleigh," observes the same writer, " is a noble profusion of his carving in picture frames, chimney-pieces,... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 頁
...Gibbon " an original genius, a citizen of nature." He adds, " There is no instance before him of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...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."... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 頁
...original ecnius, a citizen of nature." He adds, " There is no instance before him of a man who gare 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."... | |
 | 1834 - 614 頁
...artist capable of giving to wood, or stone, " the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chaining together the various productions of the elements, with a free disorder natural 10 each species." Such, according to Walpole^ was the effect produced by the chisel of Gibbon* ; in... | |
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