 | 1848 - 660 pages
...by the biographer of Reynolds, fulfill so important an office " in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead."* For practiced artists, the author reminds us again that he does not write; and then proceeds to unfold... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1851 - 400 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 airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship,... | |
 | 1853 - 796 pages
...painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of his subjects ; but it is in painting as it is in life, what is greatest is not always best. I should...absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE HERBERT. IT is with great satisfaction that we see the new edition of the... | |
 | Shearjashub Spooner - 1853 - 336 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...should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and goddesses, to empty splendor and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 398 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. 1 should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendor and to airy... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 394 pages
...always best. 1 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 renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the... | |
 | Marcus Aurelius Root - 1864 - 470 pages
...any one to look at a portrait by him, without instruction, benefit, and delight." Says Northcote, - " It is in painting, as in life, — what is greatest...should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and goddesses, to empty splendor and airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship,... | |
 | Marcus Aurelius Root - 1864 - 514 pages
...any one to look at a portrait by him, without instruction, benefit, and delight." Says Northcote, " It is in painting, as in life, — what is greatest...should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and goddesses, to empty splendor and airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship,... | |
 | Shearjashub Spooner - 1865 - 662 pages
...declared that ho •' should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and goddesses, to empty splendor and to airy fiction, that art 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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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... 
