31 examples of fuseli in sentences

Coleridge, you will rejoice to hear that Cowper is recovered from his lunacy, and is employed on his translation of the Italian, etc., poems of Milton for an edition where Fuseli presides as designer.

A beggar in the hands of Michael Angelo, says Fuseli, rose the Patriarch of Poverty.

A beggar in the hands of Michael Angelo, says Fuseli, rose the Patriarch of Poverty.

It is related, that Fuseli, the celebrated artist, when he wished to summon Nightmare, and bid her sit for her picture, or any other grotesque or horrible personations, was wont to prime himself for the feat by supping on about three pounds of half-dressed pork-chops.

His distinguishing excellency was grace,"that artless balance of motion and repose," says Fuseli, "springing from character and founded on propriety."

"The acuteness of his taste," says Fuseli, "led him to discover that as all men were connected by one general form, so they were separated each by some predominant power, which fixed character and bound them to a class.

In Painting, see Müller's Ancient Art; Fuseli's Lectures; Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures; Lanzi's History of Painting in Italy (translated by Roscoe); and the Article on "Painting," Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Article "Pictura," Smith's Dictionary, both of which last mentioned refer to numerous German, French, and other authorities, should the reader care to pursue the subject.

Besides, his style is as hard as Albert Durer, and as coarse as Fuseli."

What injury (short of the theatres) did not Boydell's "Shakespeare Gallery" do me with Shakespeare?to have Opie's Shakespeare, Northcote's Shakespeare, light-headed Fuseli's Shakespeare, heavy-headed Romney's Shakespeare, wooden-headed West's Shakespeare (though he did the best in "Lear"), deaf-headed Reynolds's Shakespeare, instead of my, and everybody's Shakespeare.

I remarked one painting in particular which is worthy of a Fuseli.

To his regret the petition to the council of the Royal Academy for this favor, handed in to them by West and advocated strongly by him and Fuseli, was not granted.

Fuseli expressed himself in very indignant terms at the narrowness of this decision.

To be sure, as Fuseli said, Christianity had helped art a little; but then it was the Christianity of Julio and Leonein short, of the worst age of Popery.

It rather puts them out, as Nature did Fuseli: They look on its crinkling play as men do at lightning; and while they grant it is very fine, are teased with an uncomfortable wonder as to where it is going to strike next.

He is the Fuseli of novelists.

"We see him in his cradle (said Fuseli); we hear him stammer; but propriety rocked the cradle, and character formed his lips.

Beside Coleridge and West, he numbered among his friends in England, Wordsworth, Southey, Lamb, Sir George Beaumont, Reynolds, and Fuseli.

Among them are Reynolds, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Morland, Wilson, Fuseli, Zoffani, Blake, Opie, De Loutherbourg, Northcote, Harlow, Jackson, Bonington, Lawrence, &c. &c.; and, as many of the specimens are associated with pleasurable recollections, we will endeavour to notice a few of them, in succession with the works of the living Artists.

One of Fuseli's most tragical creations.

"Look at Northcote," said Fuseli; "he looks like a rat that has seen a cat."

Her friends there, among whom were Battoni, Raphael Mengs, and Fuseli, found much to admire and praise in her art.

Many interesting incidents in her association with London artists are related, and it is said that both Fuseli and Sir Joshua Reynolds were unsuccessful suitors for her hand.

A friend of Fuseli, she was said to be as much in love with him as he was in love with Angelica Kauffman.

Fuseli valued a picture by Anna Wasser, which he owned, and praised her correctness of design and her feeling for color.

FUSELI, HENRY, properly FUSOLI, a famous portrait-painter, born at Zurich; coming to England at the age of 22, he became acquainted with Sir Joshua Reynolds, who advised him to go to Rome; after eight years spent in study of the Italian masters, and Michael Angelo in particular, he returned to England and became an R.A.; he painted a series of pictures, afterwards exhibited as the "Milton Gallery" (1741-1825).

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