 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pagini
...till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it.' The Dunciad, iv. 249. * ' Genius is chiefly exerted in historical pictures ; and the...painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of his subject. But 250 Records not consulted by historians. [Sept. 17. think it of no consequence whether... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pagini
...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...should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pagini
...sentence to the number of The Idler (No. 45) in which he thus writes about portrait -painting: — 'Genius is chiefly exerted in historical pictures ; and 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 pagini
...covered with pictures, that, however excellent, neither imply the owner's virtue nor excite it. Genius is chiefly exerted in historical pictures ; and 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... | |
 | 1803 - 196 pagini
...pictures, that, however excellent, neither imply the owner's virtue nor excite it. VoL. I. O Genius is chiefly exerted in historical pictures, and the art of the painter of portrait is often lost in the obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is... | |
 | 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 - 636 pagini
...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...should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pagini
...covered with pictures, that, however excellent, neither imply the owner's virtue, nor excite it. Genius is chiefly exerted in historical pictures; and 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pagini
...covered with pictures, that, however excellent, neither imply the owner's virtue, nor excite it. Genius is chiefly exerted in historical pictures ; and 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pagini
...art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of his subject. But it is in pointing as in life; what is greatest is not always best. I...should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 pagini
...covered with pictures, that, however excellent, neither imply the owner's virtue, nor excite it. Genius is chiefly exerted in historical pictures ; and 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... | |
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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... 
