 | Lady Emma Hamilton - 1815 - 210 pages
...friend on this occasion. In his letter dated the nineteenth of June, 1791, he says:— " At present, and the greatest part of the summer, I shall be engaged...epithet, for I think her superior to all womankind. I have two pictures to paint of her for the Prince of Wales. She says she must see you before she leaves... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 338 pages
...raised the spirits of the painter, indeed; — hear how he talks to Hayley in June, 1791. " At present, and the greatest part of the summer, I shall be engaged...from the divine lady : I cannot give her any other i 2 epithet, for I think her superior to all womankind. I have two pictures to paint of her for the... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 358 pages
...raised the spirits of the painter, indeed; — hear how he talks to Hayley in June, 1791. " At present, and the greatest part of the summer, I shall be engaged in painting pictures from the divine lady : 1 cannot give her any other i 2 epithet, for I think her superior to all womankind. I have two pictures... | |
 | Anonymous - 1809 - 506 pages
...the object of his regard. In his letter dated the lyth of June, 1791, he writes, 'At ' At present, and the greatest part of the summer, I shall be engaged...epithet, for I think her superior to all womankind. I have two pictures to paint of her. She says she must see you, before she leaves England, which will... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 616 pages
...before a warm passion for her was engendered in the breast of the artist : — " At present, and for the greatest part of the summer, I shall be engaged...epithet ; for I think her superior to all womankind. She asked me if you would not write my life : I told her you had begun it — then, she said, she hoped... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 632 pages
...before a warm passion for her was en. gendered in the breast of the artist : — "At present, and for the greatest part of the summer, I shall be engaged...epithet ; for I think her superior to all womankind. She asked me if you would not write my life : I told her you had begun it — then, she said, she hoped... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849 - 708 pages
...of his art." 1 On the 19th of June, 1791, the Painter wrote to his Biographer, saying, " At present, and the greatest part of the summer, I shall be engaged...epithet, for I think her superior to all womankind. 1 have two pictures to paint of her for the Prince of Wales.'' And on the 7th of July following :—"... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849 - 710 pages
...of his art."i On the 19th of June, 1791, the Painter wrote to his Biographer, saying, " At present, and the greatest part of the summer, I shall be engaged...epithet, for I think her superior to all womankind. I have two pictures to paint of her for the Prince of Wales.'' And on the 7th of July following : —... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1859 - 270 pages
...— hear how he talks to Hayley in June, 1791. " At present, and the greatest part of the summer, 1 shall be engaged in painting pictures from the divine...epithet, for I think her superior to all womankind. I have two pictures to paint of her for the Prince of Wales. She says, she must see you before she... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1867 - 874 pages
...the beautiful Emma and her portraits. This infatuation endured for years. " At present," he wrote to Hayley, in 1791, "and the greatest part of the summer, I shall be engaged in painting pictures from the dii-int lady. I cannot give her any other epithet; for I think her superior to all womankind." For... | |
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At present, and the greatest part of the summer, I shall be engaged in painting pictures from the divine lady : I cannot give her any other epithet, for I think her superior to all womankind. I have two pictures to paint of her for the Prince of Wales.... 
