 | Don Carlos Seitz - 1910 - 200 pages
...the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen, and heard, much of cockney impudence before now ; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The number containing the article in question carries this imprint in addition to the regular title... | |
 | Michael Bryan - Engravers - 1910 - 696 pages
...above all, attacked them in 'Fors Clavigera' in the most violent terms. "I never expected," he said, "to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.~ Raskin's position and reputation lent weight to his attack, which very seriously injured the artist.... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1910 - 48 pages
...the painter; and he further had impugned that honor by specifically stating that Whistler was asking two hundred guineas for "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." Two hundred guineas was the price asked for "The Falling Rocket," and it was the only Whistler in the... | |
 | Ashmore Kyle Paterson Wingate - Artists - 1910 - 238 pages
...have seen and heard much of cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb asking two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The language, probably used at a moment when the writer was infuriated with things in general, and... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - United States - 1910 - 424 pages
...looking at " The Falling Rocket " in 1877, that here was a fellow with. the effrontery to charge a hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. Some further years of abuse followed, and then the pendulum swung the other way, and the eccentric... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - United States - 1910 - 430 pages
...looking at " The Falling 114 Rocket " in 1877, that here was a fellow with the effrontery to charge a hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. Some further years of abuse followed, and then the pendulum swung the other way, and the eccentric... | |
 | Arthur Christopher Benson - Art critics - 1911 - 360 pages
...approaches the aspect of wilful imposture. " I have seen and heard much of cockney impudence before now, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." Ruskin was too ill to be present at the trial, but Whistler gave his evidence with his unparalleled... | |
 | John Joseph Conway - Americans - 1912 - 446 pages
...nearly approached wilful imposture. I have seen and heard much of Cockney impudence before now, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The latter is Whistler's reply to the cross-examining Attorney-General — Sir John Holker — who... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - English wit and humor - 1913 - 404 pages
...posthumous prices. Good-morning." Ruskin's statement with reference to one of Whistler's pictures that " he never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face " led to a famous libel action and the awarding of one farthing damages to the aggrieved artist. Whistler... | |
 | 1914 - 904 pages
...I have seen," he said, "and heard much of Cockney impudence before THE WINDSOE MAGAZINE. ijovv, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." It" was into this blind and inartistic age that a man whom Nature had gifted above boyhood to his many... | |
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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. 
