 ... 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
 | Shearjashub Spooner - Artists - 1873 - 664 pages
...declared that he " should grieve to see* Reynolds transfer to heroes and goddesses, to empty 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... | |
 | Julia B. De Forest - Art - 1881 - 384 pages
...possessed a knowledge of their personal appearance. now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." Sir Joshua was a remarkable colorist, and knew how to blend his tints with the most consummate skill.... | |
 | Julia B. De Forest - Art - 1881 - 380 pages
...always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty 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... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1886 - 360 pages
...life ; what is greatest is not always best. / should grieve to see Eeynolds 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... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - Archaeology - 1886 - 300 pages
...and airy fiction, which can be employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in awakening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." It would be a melancholy instance of the mutability of things human, if miniatures came to be altogether... | |
 | Mrs. C. W. Earle - Cooking, English - 1897 - 410 pages
...photographs of those we love do fulfil Dr. Johnson's description of portrait-painting: ' That art which is employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness,...the absent and continuing the presence of the dead.' Mr. Morris spoke of the fireplace as such an important thing in our climate; it is so indeed. One of... | |
 | Thomas Lister Ribblesdale (4th Baron) - Great Britain - 1897 - 400 pages
...to heroes and to goddesses . . . 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.' signed by the Kanger of Windsor or his deputy. As the Great Western, one of the motor muscles of the... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - Great Britain - 1897 - 432 pages
...empty splendour and to any 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. Every man is always present to himself, and has therefore little need of his own resemblance, nor can... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - Great Britain - 1897 - 442 pages
...empty splendour and to any 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. Every man is always present to himself, and has therefore little need of his own resemblance, nor can... | |
 | Charles James Longman - English periodicals - 1898 - 600 pages
...Johnson on miniature art, ' so valuable in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in awakening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.' Mr. Foster quotes this beautiful sentence, from I know not which of Johnson's writings, in his delightful... | |
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