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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... "
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ... - Trang 250
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Tập 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 trang
...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.' It is recorded in Johnson's Works, (1787) xi. 208, that 'Johnson, talking with some persons about '...

The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Tập 33

British essayists - 1802 - 220 trang
...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...quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presenceof the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for...

Select British Classics, Tập 9

1803 - 196 trang
...pictures, and the art of the painter of portrait is often lost in the obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is...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...

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Tập 7

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 trang
...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...empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is new employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent,...

The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Tập 7

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 trang
...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...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...

Works, Tập 7

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 trang
...art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of his subject. But it is in pointing as in life; what is greatest is not always best. I...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...

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Tập 7

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 trang
...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...goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, thai art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections...

The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds : Comprising Original Anecdotes of ..., Tập 1

James Northcote - 1819 - 382 trang
...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 dead." be remembered. This use of the art is a natural and reasonable consequence of affection ; and though,...

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 trang
...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 reving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead....

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 430 trang
...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 reving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead....




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