 If we have any claim to approbation, we found it on this alone, that we flatter ourselves we have been able to seize with some degree of success, the beautiful spirit of antiquity and to transfuse it with novelty and variety through all our numerous works.  Beauty and Art - 第 195 頁Aldam Heaton 著 - 1897 - 208 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | George Percy Bankart - 1909 - 378 頁
...figures and winding foliage. If we have any claim to approbation, we found it on this alone :— that we flatter ourselves we have been able to seize with...success the beautiful spirit (?) of antiquity, and to inform it with novelty, and variety, through all our numerous works." The material used by the brothers... | |
 | Illuminating Engineering Society - 1910 - 1022 頁
...fanciful figures and winding foliage. If we have any claim to approbation, we found it on this alone, that we flatter ourselves we have been able to seize with...novelty and variety through all our numerous works. It was their ability to seize and transfuse the beautiful spirit of antiquity into their work that... | |
 | Virginia Huntington Robie - 1912 - 592 頁
...edition, engraved by Bartolozzi: "If we have any claim to approbation we found it on this alone: that we have been able to seize, with some degree of success,...and to transfuse it with novelty and variety through our numerous works." It is this beautiful classic spirit which we find in so much of Sheraton's work,... | |
 | Frederick William Burgess - 1915 - 590 頁
...have founded it on this alone. That we flatter ourselves we have been able to make use of, with a fair degree of success, the beautiful spirit of antiquity,...novelty and variety, through all our numerous works." The Brothers Adam were fortunate in securing the co-operation of many noted artists who worked for... | |
 | Nancy Vincent McClelland - 1926 - 476 頁
...and have added grace and beauty to the whole by a mixture of grotesque stucco and painted ornaments. We flatter ourselves we have been able to seize with...success the beautiful spirit of antiquity, and to inform it with novelty and variety through all our numerous works." The ancient custom of painting... | |
 | Paul Nash - 2000 - 228 頁
...alone, that we flaner ourselves we have heen ahle to seize, with some degree of success, the heautiful spirit of antiquity, and to transfuse it, with novelty and variety, through all our numerous works.' It occurs to me that this power of transfusing was the secret of success of eighteenth,century architectural... | |
 | Alastair Hannay - 2005 - 168 頁
...'We flatter ourselves we have °been able to seize, with some degree of success, the beautiful £5 spirit of antiquity, and to transfuse it, with novelty and variety, through all our numerous works.' As to whether they had succeeded, they would leave that 'to an impartial public'. As a commentator... | |
 | Alastair Hannay - 2005 - 168 頁
...™ variations on diverse classical originals. Commenting on their 3 own achievements, they wrote: 'We flatter ourselves we have °been able to seize, with some degree of success, the beautiful £j spirit of antiquity, and to transfuse it, with novelty and variety, through all our numerous works.'... | |
 | Illuminating Engineering Society - 1910 - 942 頁
...other objects of art. Their inspiration was gained from the ancient work and as Robert Adam said : flatter ourselves we have been able to seize with...novelty and variety through all our numerous works. It was their ability to seize and transfuse the beautiful spirit of antiquity into their work that... | |
 | 1916 - 714 頁
...again : "If we have any claim to approbation, we found it on this alone; that we flatter ourselves that we have been able to seize with some degree of success the beautiful spirit of antiquity and to infuse it with novelty and variety, through all our numerous works." This same authority suggests that... | |
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