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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... "
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ... - Page 250
by James Boswell - 1786
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 488 pages
...pictures ; and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscnrity 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 opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson ...: The Adventurer and Idler

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 opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 610 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...friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening tho affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead y. Yet in a nation great and...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 97, Part 2; Volumes 141-142

1827 - 796 pages
...to airy fiction, which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in awakening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." P. 150. 44. The yaice of Humanity : Observations on a few of the instances of Cruelty to Animals, against...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 38

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 646 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.'* Dr. Johnson says nothing as to our alleged indifference for ' landscape' and ' nature ;' these, indeed,...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 38-39

1828 - 592 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 not always best. 1 should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 1

Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pages
...pictures, and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of the subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is...which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the...
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On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening

Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 pages
...his readers to the rich scenes of nature ? Dr. Johnson calls portrait painting " that art which is employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness,...absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." The horticultural intercourse that now passes between England and France, induces one to express a superior...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and ..., Volume 1

Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 402 pages
...pictures, and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of the subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best. / should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction,...
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The literary works of sir Joshua Reynolds. To which is prefixed a ..., Volume 1

sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 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...which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the...
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