Pictures of the French: a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874 · London, W. S. Orr and co. · leaf 480
afterwards it was just as easy to see that my friend was no less admirable acomposer. He was a universal prodigy! As to the technical slang of the trade,he was a complete master of it. Figures, counterpoints, canons, were familiar termsin his mouth : a blue sky, I heard, was a cobalt ground, tinted… … 304 THE ARTISTS FRIEND. The sole conversation of the evening was of art and artists: the existence of therest of the world was unacknowledged; and, by the time we took leave, Badoulothad shown himself so general in special excellence, that, not being able to divine inwhich of the sciences he was a…
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