| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 690 pages
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pages
...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... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 378 pages
...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... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 612 pages
...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... | |
| sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...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." There can be little doubt that the former part of this paper was aimed at Hogarth, who is well known... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...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, that art I which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections... | |
| James Elmes - 1825 - 322 pages
...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. JOHNSON. Fain would I Raffaele's godlike art rehearse, And shew th' immortal labours in my verse ;... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...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 opuleht there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like... | |
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