 I have read of a fair young German gentleman, who, living, often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity of his friends' desire, by giving way that after a few days' burial they might send a painter to his vault, and, if they saw cause for...  The North American Miscellany - Страница 5181851Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | William Minto - 1881 - 634 страници
...stript of its life and honour. 1 have read of a fair young German gentleman, who, living, often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity of his...they saw cause for it, draw the image of his death nnto the life. They did so, and found his face half eaten, and his midritf and backbone full of serpents... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 492 страници
...gentleman, •who living, often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity of his friend's desire by giving way, that after a few days' burial...his vault, and, if they saw cause for it, draw the imago of his death unto the life; they did so, and found hie face half eaten, and his midriff and backbone... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 страници
...fair young German gentleman who living often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity ot his friends' desire by giving way that after a few days' burial they might send • 1 Holy Vying, ed. Eden, ch. i. sec. ip 2<J7. • Ibid. 367. 8 Itrid. 208. * Ibid 269. winter to... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1886 - 550 страници
...gentleman, who, living, often refused to be pictured, but put off thé importunity of his friends' désire by giving way, that, after a few days" burial, they...to his vault, and, if they saw cause for it, draw thé image of his death unto thé life. They did so, and found his face naïf eaten, and his midriff... | |
 | Walter Baxendale - 1888 - 708 страници
...what baa he to be vain of? I hare read of a fair young German gentleman, who, living, often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity of his...vault, and, if they saw cause for it, draw the image of hia death unto the life. — Jeremy Taylor. 3633. MAN, what is in him. Behold a man who hath over-topped... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1890 - 582 страници
...German gentleman who, while living, often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity of Ms friends' desire by giving way that, after a few days'...death unto the life. They did so, and found his face half-eaten, and his midriff and back-bone full of serpents ; and so he stands pictured among his armed... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 страници
...German gentleman, who, while living, often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity of hie friends' desire by giving way that after a few days' burial, they might send a painter to bis vault, and if they saw cause for it, draw the image of his death unto the life. They did so, and... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1897 - 286 страници
...stripped of its life and honour. I have read of a fair young German gentleman who living often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity of his...draw the image of his death unto the life : they did ao, and found his face half eaten, and his midriff and backbone full of serpents ; and so he stands... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 438 страници
...him unable to die.' ' I have read of a fair young German gentleman, who, while living, often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity of his...death unto the life. They did so, and found his face half-eaten, and his midriff and back -bone full of serpents ; and so he stands pictured among his armed... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1908 - 514 страници
...stripped of its life and honour. I have read of a fair young German gentleman who living often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity of his...his face half eaten, and his midriff and backbone Ml of serpents ; and so he stands pictured among his armed ancestors. So does the fairest beauty change,... | |
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