 ... virtue, nor excite it. Genius is chiefly exerted in historical pictures ; and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve...  The London Quarterly Review - Page 3781828Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...Nay, Sir, the argument from the it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and...absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.' The Idler. No. 45. 1 Southey wrote thirty years later: — 'I find daily more and more reason to wonder... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and...absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.' It is recorded in Johnson's Works, (1787) xi. 208, that 'Johnson, talking with some persons about '... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life, what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and...quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presenceof the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 196 pages
...obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and...the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and...empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is new employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and...the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and...goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, thai art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections... | |
 | James Northcote - Art - 1819 - 382 pages
...splendor and to airy fiction, that art, which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." be remembered. This use of the art is a natural and reasonable consequence of affection ; and though,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and...which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 430 pages
...obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and...which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.... | |
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