 | 1842 - 600 pages
...philosophy, but of which it is truly surprising to find Johnson the utterer. ' Surely life, it it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trißes to rid us of our time— of that time which never can return.' Johnson's friend Reynolds taught... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...Baretti. This exhibition nas filled the heads of the artists and lovers of art. Surely life, it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call...account of myself: yet what account shall I give him? 1 have not, since the day of of our separation , suffered or done any thing considerable. The only... | |
 | 1846 - 316 pages
...Baretti. This exhibition has filled the heads of the artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious ; since we are forced to call...our time — of that time which never can return." One of the biographers of Reynolds imputes the reflections contained in the conclusion of this letter,... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 pages
...philosophy, but of which it is truly surprising to find Johnson the uttcrer : — " Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call...our time — of that time which never can return." Johnson's friend, Reynolds, taught him better, a few years later, in those immortal discourses, which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...liaretti. This Exhibition has filled the heads of the artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call...separation, suffered or done any thing considerable. The only change in my way of life is, that I have frequented the theatre more than in former seasons.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...Baretti. This Exhibition has rilled the heads of the artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call...(!) " I know my Baretti will not be satisfied with a (1) Of the beauties of painting, notwithstanding the many eulogiums on that art which, after the commencement... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1851 - 370 pages
...course.* • " This exhibition nan filled the heads of artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of that time which never can return."— Johnson to Baretti: It was lucky for the Doctor that his companion... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1853 - 388 pages
...Baretti. This exhibition has filled the heads of the artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious ; since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of OUT time— of that time which never can return." One of the biographers of Reynolds imputes the reflections... | |
 | Manchester art treasures exhib - 1857 - 138 pages
...Baretti. The exhibition has filled the head of the artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call...our time — of that time which never can return." It may be doubted how far the Eoyal Academy Exhibition has benefitted the art of painting. It is obvious... | |
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This Exhibition has filled the heads of the Artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return. 
