 ... 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
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 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 - 1823 - 612 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 378 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 690 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... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 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." There can be little doubt that the former part of this paper was aimed at Hogarth, who is well known... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 332 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, that art I which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections... | |
 | James Elmes - Art - 1825 - 322 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. JOHNSON. Fain would I Raffaele's godlike art rehearse, And shew th' immortal labours in my verse ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 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 - 1825 - 482 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...of the absent, and continuing the presence of the deady. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like... | |
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