 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1897 - 442 pages
...painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of the subject:. 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 goddesses, to empty splendour and to any fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship,... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1897 - 432 pages
...the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of the subject 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 goddesses, to empty splendour and to any fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship,... | |
 | Thomas Lister Ribblesdale (4th Baron) - 1897 - 400 pages
...arrangements by which people could only hunt by ticket, which had to be 1 Dr. Johnson criticises this : ' I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses . . . that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening... | |
 | Charles James Longman - 1898 - 600 pages
...Johnson on miniature art, ' so valuable in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in awakening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.' Mr. Foster quotes this beautiful sentence, from I know not which of Johnson's writings, in his delightful... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1909 - 518 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...heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fictiou, that art which is now employed in diffusmg friendship, m renewing tenderness, in quickening... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...pictures; and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the 5 obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life, what is greatest is...Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendor and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in re- 10 viving... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...always best. I 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 re- 10 viving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of... | |
 | Joshua James Foster - 1926 - 362 pages
...Johnson, makes ' Miniature Art so valuable in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in awakening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.' JJ FOSTER. • ALDWICK,' SUTTOH, SUBBET. Christmas, 1922. ABBREVIATIONS The following are the principal... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1928 - 444 pages
...the art of portraiture, which Johnson touches on its human side ; the work of Reynolds, he says, is ' quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead ' ; and he would grieve to see bim ' transfer ' his skill to ' heroes and goddesses, to empty splendour... | |
 | Bruce Haley - 2003 - 322 pages
...them, Dr. Johnson had insisted to Reynolds, for "diffusing friendship . . . renewing tenderness . . . quickening the affections of the absent and continuing the presence of the dead." 12 These remarks point up a central paradox about the painted likeness: it depicts a living figure,... | |
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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... 
