 | Robert Walsh - 1822 - 402 pages
...if, able still To sin, I had notturn'd me unto God. 90 O powers of man ! how vain your glory, nipp'd E'en in its height of verdure, if an age Less bright succeed noU. Cimabue§ thought To lord it over painting's field ; and now The cry is Giotto's,] and his name... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1841 - 440 pages
...illustrates it by the example of his own age : — " O powers of man ! how vain your glory, nipp'd K'eii in its height of verdure, if an age Less bright succeed...lord it over painting's field ; and now The cry is Giotto's, and his name eclips'd. Thus hath one Guido from the other snatch'd The letter'd prize, and... | |
 | Franz Theodor Kugler - 1841 - 494 pages
...taste, for he remarks that it would be well for Art if white paint was dearer than gems. — ED.] * " Cimabue thought To lord it over painting's field ; and now The cry is Giotto's, and his name eclipsed." Cory's Translation, * " The modern manner " is Vasari's term for... | |
 | Franz Kugler - Painting - 1842 - 490 pages
...taste, for he remarks that it would be well for Art if white paint was dearer than gems. — ED.] * " Cimabue thought To lord it over painting's field ; and now The cry is Giotto's, and his name eclipsed." Gary's Translation. His influence was not confined to Florence, nor... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...purgatory, the painter pronounced a lamentation on the instability of modern reputation : — " f '¡mulini' thought To lord it over painting's field ; and now The cry is Giotto's, and his name eclipsed. Thus hath one Guido from the other snatched The lettered prize, and... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1844 - 606 pages
...the forfeiture is paid3. Nor were I even here, if, able still To sin, I had not turn'd me unto God. O powers of man ! how vain your glory, nipt E'en in its height of verdure, if an age Less bright sueceed nott. Cimabue5 thought 1 Oderigi.] The illuminator, or miniature painter, a friend of Giotto... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Italy - 1845 - 210 pages
...Cavalcante, to whose poetical talents Dante gives a preference in the following passage of the Commedia : Cimabue thought To lord it over painting's field ; and now The cry is Giotto's, and his name eclipsed. Thus hath one Guido from the other snatched The letter'd prize. Purg.... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Italy - 1845 - 196 pages
...whose poetical talents Dante gives a preference in the following passage of the Commedia : Cimahue thought To lord it over painting's field ; and now The cry is Giotto's, and his name eclipsed. Thus hath one Guido from the other snatched The letter'd prize. Purg.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...Oderigi illustrates it by the example of his wrongs : — O powers of man ! how vain your glory, nipp'd E'en in its height of verdure, if an age Less bright...lord it over painting's field ; and now The cry is Giotto's, and his name eclipsed. Thus hath one Guido from the other snatch'd The letter'd prize, and... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Hell - 1847 - 630 pages
...forfeiture is paid'. Nor were I even here, if, able still _ I To sin, I had not turn'd me unto God. O powers of man ! how vain your glory, nipt E'en in...its height of verdure, if an age Less bright succeed not2. Cimabue3 thought To lord it over painting's field ; and now The cry is Giotto's4, and his name... | |
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E'en in its height of verdure, if an age Less bright succeed not. Cimabue thought To lord it over painting's field; and now The cry is Giotto's, 
