 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Artists - 1906 - 362 pages
...in a Royal Academy of Painting, which he has just established ; but there is no salary annexed; and I took it rather as a compliment to the Institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man who wants a shirt." While industriously... | |
 | Frank Frankfort Moore - Authors, Irish - 1910 - 530 pages
...in a royal Academy of Painting, which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt. You tell me... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - American letters - 1914 - 136 pages
...the royal academy of painting 27 which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed; and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to one that wants a shirt. You tell me there... | |
 | Sir Ernest Clarke - 1920 - 60 pages
...History to the newly established Royal Academy of Arts (1768), "but there is no salary annexed, and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt." Oliver sends... | |
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The king has lately been pleased to make me Professor of Ancient History in a royal Academy of Painting, which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself.... 
