...that he crystallized in these annual addresses, which he brought at last to an end with the words, "I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses...divine man; and I should desire that the last words I should pronounce in this Academy and from this place might be the name of Michelangelo." There are...

...part of this memorable discourse consists of a eulogium on Michael Angelo : — its last passage — " I reflect, not without vanity, that these discourses...divine man, and I should desire that the last words I should pronounce in this Acadejny, and from this place, might be the name of MICHAEL ANGELO." " As...

...of Michael Angelo." Sir Joshua Reynolds, two centuries later, declared to the British Institution, " I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite." It will be readily conceded, that a man of such hahits and such deeds, made good his pretensions to...