 There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so...  Warren Hastings - Page 158by Thomas Babington Macaulay baron Macaulay - 1886 - 183 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lewis Worthington Smith, James Eames Thomas - 1901 - 436 pages
...Africa. 3. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest " scholar of the age. 4. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel...statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. 5. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted... | |
 | Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower - 1902 - 362 pages
...which occupied that summer in the hall of Rufus, recurs to our mind : " The spectacle," he writes, " had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved...statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons." In December, Reynolds delivered his thirteenth Discourse : its subject, that Art should be not merely... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 506 pages
...of Africa.1 There wereseen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel...foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smile.-", of so many noble matrons. It had induced_Pajr-to suspend his labours in ' at dark and profound... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1904 - 1196 pages
...of Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition —... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1904 - 566 pages
...of Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a... | |
 | 1904 - 716 pages
...society resuscitated." In a lesser degree these volumes will give us the same delightful experience. " The thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons," to use Macaulay's words in speaking of Reynolds, are here with that sense of liveness which moves and... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1904 - 520 pages
...of Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel...which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads «f so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 702 pages
...of Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful [1788 AD] foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.... | |
 | 1906 - 476 pages
...of Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel...mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition—a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - 1906 - 278 pages
...of Africa. "There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel...It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that 54 Do you want a criminal, my lords? When was there so much iniquity ever laid to the charge of any... | |
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