... 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 - Strana 3781828Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
| 1853 - 796 str.
...obscurity of his subjects ; but it is in painting as it is 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 POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE HERBERT. IT is with great satisfaction that we see the new edition of... | |
| Shearjashub Spooner - 1853 - 336 str.
...not always best. I 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... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 394 str.
...always best. 1 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... | |
| Marcus Aurelius Root - 1864 - 470 str.
...always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and goddesses, to empty splendor and 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... | |
| Marcus Aurelius Root - 1864 - 514 str.
...always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and goddesses, to empty splendor and 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... | |
| Shearjashub Spooner - 1865 - 662 str.
...declared that ho •' 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... | |
| Shearjashub Spooner - 1867 - 654 str.
...splendor and to airy fiction, that art whiich is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." Such opinions, though emanating from men so distinguished in letters, can have little influence with... | |
| 1870 - 586 str.
...sec Reynolds trmisfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour nnd to airy fiction, that »rt which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in...reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absvut and continuing the presence of the dead. — Dr. Johnson. IN Si'KciMEV ROOMS the walls should... | |
| Frederick William Fairholt - 1873 - 288 str.
...this question but halfway when he wrote — "I 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... | |
| Shearjashub Spooner - 1873 - 666 str.
...declared that he и 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... | |
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