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" You must recollect, however, that I know nothing of painting ; and that I detest it, unless it reminds me of something I have seen, or think it possible to see... "
Arnold's Library of the Fine Arts - Page 402
1832
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and ..., Volume 5

Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 358 pages
...works of art. " I know nothing," says the poet in one of his letters to Mr. Murray, " of painting, and I detest it, unless it reminds me of something...and abhor all the saints and subjects of one half the compositions I see in the churches and palaces. Of all the arts, it is the most artificial and...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 576 pages
...mind, there is none finer. "You must recollect, however, that I know nothing of painting; and that I detest it, unless it reminds me of something I have...spit upon and abhor all the saints and subjects of oue half the impostures I see in the churches and palaces ; and when in Flanders, I never was so disgusted...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 528 pages
...mind, there is none finer. "You muet recollect, however, that I know nothing of painting; and that for the noble lesson so lately given both to people and to kings. The offer which he de ; i. D. 1817. NOTICES OF THE. for which reason I spit upon and abhor all the Saints and subject« of...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 532 pages
...of yesterday ; the same eyes and expression, and, to my mind, there is none finer. NOTICES OF THE. for which reason I spit upon and abhor all the Saints and subjects of one half the impostures I see in the churches and palaces; and when in Flanders, I never was so disgusted in...
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Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting ...

1831 - 372 pages
...OF BVUON'. sculpture, we hesitate not to pronounce ridiculous : — " I know nothing of painting ; and I detest it, unless it reminds me of something...and abhor all the Saints and subjects of one half the impostures I see in the churches and palaces ; and when in Flanders, I never was so disgusted in...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1831 - 572 pages
...however, that I know nothing of painting; and that I detest it, unless it reminds me of something 1 have seen, or think it possible to see, for which...and abhor all the saints and subjects of one half the impostures I see in the churches and palaces ; and when in Flanders, I never was so disgusted in...
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Letters and journals of lord Byron: with notices of his life, by T. Moore ...

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 618 pages
...unless it reminds me of something 1 baveseeo, or think it possible to see ; 964 NOTICES OP THE. iD 1817, for which reason I spit upon and abhor all the Saints and subjects of one half the impostures I see in the churches and palaces ; and when in Flanders, I never was so disgusted in...
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Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register, Volumes 17-20

1831 - 412 pages
...in one of his letters to Murray, " I detest Painting unless it reminds me of something I have seen, for which reason I spit upon and abhor all the Saints and subjects of one half the impostures I see in the churches and palaces ; and when in Flanders, I never was so disgusted in...
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The works of Thomas Moore, Volume 16

Thomas Moore - 1832 - 512 pages
...mind, there is none finer. ;, You must recollect, however, that I know nothing of painting ; and that I detest it, unless it reminds me of something I have...and abhor all the Saints and subjects of one half the impostures I see in the churches and palaces; and when in Flanders, I never was so disgusted in...
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Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 4

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 384 pages
...mind, there is none finer. " You must recollect, however, that I know nothing of painting ; and that I detest it, unless it reminds me of something I have...and abhor all the Saints and subjects of one half the impostures T see in the churches and palaces; and when in Flanders, I never was so disgusted in...
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