 | Frederick Spencer Bird - Netherlands - 1882 - 376 pages
...work. Walpole calls him "an original genius;" and 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." Gibbons was indebted to Evelyn for his introduction to... | |
 | George Phillips Bevan - 1882 - 116 pages
...Master Sculptor to George I., the most exquisite carver in wood that England has ever seen. " There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers " (Waipole). For these carvings Gibbons was paid .£1333. The wrought-iron gates are by Tijoue. On... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1885 - 438 pages
...as " an original genius, a citizen of nature. There is no instance before him," he adds, " 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 said that he lived in Belle Sauvage Court, Ludgate... | |
 | W. Harlan Cord - Europe - 1885 - 564 pages
...wood-carving in the world, done by the celebrated Grinling Gibbons, of whom it was said : ' ' That he 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." Here, also, is to be seen the famous stained glass portrait... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English literature - 1886 - 418 pages
...The praise which Walpole bestows he richly merited : — ' There is no instance of a man before him who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements with a free disorder natural to each species.' He imitated Nature with the faithfulness of a loving eye and the skill of a bold and ready hand. Whatever... | |
 | Thomas Purnell - 1886 - 160 pages
...as famous visitors. Grinling Gibbons the Dutchman, who, according to Walpole, was the first to give to wood " the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements with a free disorder natural to each species," lived at the upper end of the street, on the right-hand side. On the site of the theatre lived Wycherley,... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1888 - 434 pages
...well-merited eulogium passed upon the principal artist by Horace Walpole. " There is no instance," says he, " of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." It is generally believed that Gibbons was the artist of these exquisite carvings. There is, however,... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - Ontario - 1896 - 868 pages
...Walpole calls Gibbon " An original genius, a citizen of nature. There is no instance before him of ajman 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." Many tine specimens of Gibbon's carvings still exist in... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1906 - 846 pages
...Crinling Gibbon. — An original genius, a citizen of nature. 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. ;ee our Court, and compliment his Majesty. I was >resent... | |
 | John M. Dillon - England - 1908 - 456 pages
...Horace Walpole's eulogy. He says: " There is no instance of a man before, who gave to wood the light airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." The New Quadrangle, built from designs of TG Jackson, is very attractive. These buildings were completed... | |
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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. 
