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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 ... - Página 250
por James Boswell - 1786
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...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.' It is recorded in Johnson's Works, (1787) xi. 208, that 'Johnson, talking with some persons about '...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumen33

British essayists - 1802 - 220 páginas
...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...quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presenceof the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for...
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Select British Classics, Volumen9

1803 - 196 páginas
...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 greatest is...the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volumen7

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 páginas
...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...empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is new employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volumen7

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 páginas
...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...the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of...
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Works, Volumen7

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 páginas
...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...the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen7

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 páginas
...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...goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, thai art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections...
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The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds : Comprising Original Anecdotes of ..., Volumen1

James Northcote - 1819 - 382 páginas
...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 dead." be remembered. This use of the art is a natural and reasonable consequence of affection ; and though,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 páginas
...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 reving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 430 páginas
...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 reving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead....
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