 | Books - 1709 - 578 pages
...to a cultivation of the particular art, that he was destined to profess, and to adorn, wa» limply this: In his youth he observed a great singularity...; his parents, to whom he spoke of it, desired him tn dt-ctibe the person — he seized a pencil, and delineated the features from memory with such a... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1809 - 746 pages
...JSQ9.] I'.-.i isi,-k. The i«!vt iiiinlf incident which led him to a cultivation of his principal art was simply this: "In his youth he observed a great...and delineated the features from memory with such a strength of resemblance as amazed and delighted his afTeo tionate parents. The applause that he received... | |
 | 1810 - 590 pages
...Incident which led him to a cultivation of the particular art, tint he was destined to profess, and to adorn, was simply this : in his youth he observed...and delineated the features from memory with such a strength of resemblance, as amazed and delighted his affectionate parents. The applause that he received... | |
 | English literature - 1810 - 576 pages
...in wood. The accident which disclosed the first ray of his pictorial abilities is thus related : ' in his youth he observed a great singularity of countenance...and delineated the features from memory, with such a strength of re»einblance, as amazed and delighted his affectionate parents. The applause that he... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 456 pages
...incident, which led him to a cultivation of the particular art, that he was destined to profess, and to adorn, was simply this. In his youth he observed a great singularity of countenance in я stranger at church. His parents, to whom he spoke of it, desired him to describe the person. He... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1809 - 716 pages
...cultivation «f his prin- ; cipal art was simply this: '-In his juuth 4ic ohferved a greut »ingurarity of countenance -in a stranger at church: his parents,' to whom he spoke of it, desired hi n to describe the person — he seized a pencil, and dcliuealed the features from memory with such... | |
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... was simply this : in his youth he observed a great singularity of countenance in a stranger at church ; his parents to whom he spoke of it, desired him to describe the person — he seized a pencil, and delineated the features from memory with such... 