 ... 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
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 488 pages
...obscnrity 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... | |
 | 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 opuleht there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 610 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...friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening tho affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead y. Yet in a nation great and... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1827 - 796 pages
...to airy fiction, which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in awakening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." P. 150. 44. The yaice of Humanity : Observations on a few of the instances of Cruelty to Animals, against... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pages
...obscurity of the 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 renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the... | |
 | Samuel Felton - Gardeners - 1830 - 270 pages
...his readers to the rich scenes of nature ? Dr. Johnson calls portrait painting " that art which is employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness,...absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." The horticultural intercourse that now passes between England and France, induces one to express a... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1830 - 402 pages
...life ; what is greatest is not always best. / should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction,...which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 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 renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the... | |
 | Biography - 1835 - 312 pages
...interesting to a few — that in the hands of Reynolds it was " employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." Reynolds himself, however, without forgetting these important prerogatives, evidently took a more extended... | |
 | Biography - 1835 - 492 pages
...interesting to a few — that in the hands of Reynolds it was " employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." Reynolds himself, however, without forgetting these important prerogatives, evidently took a more extended... | |
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