| William Keddie - 1854 - 400 pages
...superiority of Robertson, in whose history we find such penetration such painting ?" Johnson : " Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...imagination. He who describes what he never saw, draws from foncy. Robertson paints minds, as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history piece ; he imagines an heroic... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 614 pages
...penetration, such paiuting ?" Johnson. " Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that paiuting are employed. It is not history, it is imagination....who describes what he never saw draws from fancy. Robert son paints minds as Sir Joshua paints laces in a history piece ; he imagines an heroic countenance.... | |
| John Forster - 1854 - 572 pages
...superiority of Robertson, in whose History ' we find such penetration, such painting ? " JoHKSoN : " Sir, you must consider ' how that penetration and that painting are employed. It is not history, it ia ' imagination. He who describes what he never saw, draws from fancy. Robertson ' paints minds as... | |
| Eugene Lawrence - 1855 - 410 pages
...the superiority of Robertson, in whose history we find such penetration, such painting?" Johnson. "Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history piece ; he imagines an heroic countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as a romance,... | |
| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1855 - 240 pages
...papers replace witnesses. Johnson indicated one of the immediate inconveniences of this change : " He who describes what he never saw, draws from Fancy....minds, as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history-piece." History may be considered in three lights a pleasurable, an educational, and a moral: (1) as it... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1860 - 250 pages
...State-papers replace witnesses. Johnson indicated one of the inconveniences of this change : " He who describes what he never saw, draws from Fancy....minds, as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history-piece." History may be considered in three lights a pleasurable, an educational, and a moral : (1) as it... | |
| Washington Irving - 1861 - 416 pages
...superiority of Kobertson, in whose history we find such penetration, such painting ?" Johnson. " Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...who describes what he never saw, draws from fancy. Kobertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces, in a historypiece ; he imagines an heroic countenance.... | |
| James Whiteside - 1862 - 100 pages
...superiority of Robertson, in whose history we find such penetration such painting? Johnson. Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as a romance, and try it by that standard : history it is not. Besides, sir, it is the great excellence... | |
| James Whiteside - 1868 - 498 pages
...superiority of Robertson, in whose history we find such penetration such painting ? Johnson. Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...countenance. You must look upon Robertson's work as a romance, and try it by that standard : history it is not. Besides, sir, it is the great excellence... | |
| James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...superiority of Robertson, in whose history we find such penetration such painting ? ' JOHNSON : ' Sir, you must consider how that penetration and that...imagination. He who describes what he never saw, draws from faney. Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history piece : he imagines an heroic... | |
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