 | James Boswell - 1786 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 640
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 220
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 196
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 386
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 386
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...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... 
