 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 488 Seiten
...pictures ; and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscnrity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is...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 Seiten
...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...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 - 610 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | 1827 - 796 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 646 Seiten
...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...absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.'* Dr. Johnson says nothing as to our alleged indifference for ' landscape' and ' nature ;' these, indeed,... | |
 | 1828 - 592 Seiten
...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. 1 should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 Seiten
...pictures, and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of the subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is...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 - 1830 - 270 Seiten
...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 superior... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 402 Seiten
...pictures, and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of the subject. But it is in painting as in 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,... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 Seiten
...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...which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the... | |
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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 to see Reynolds transfer to... 
