 | 1808 - 540 páginas
.... ** Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on тегу many accounts, one of the most memorable men of hie time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of...equal to the great masters of the renowned ages. In portraits be went beyond them : for he communicated to that description of the art in which English... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 476 páginas
...on very many " accounts, one of the most memorable mea " of his time. He was the first English" man, who added the praise of the elegant " arts to the...equal to the great " masters of the renowned ages. In Por'f trait he went beyond them.; for he com*' municated to that description of the art, '' in which... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 430 páginas
...very many " accounts, one of the most memorable men, «' of his time. He was the first English" man, who added the praise of the elegant *' arts to the...equal to the great " masters of the renowned ages. In Por*' trait he went beyond them; for he com" municated to that description of the art, " in which English... | |
 | London Buckingham palace - 1811 - 148 páginas
...classed among the most celebrated of his productions. In the words of his friend and admirer, Burke, " In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring," it equals the greatest pictures of the renowned ages. The chaste " abandon" of the principal figure,... | |
 | 1813 - 662 páginas
...memory. " ' Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time . He was the first Englishman who added the praise of...richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the greatest masters of the renowned ages. In portrait he went beyond them ; for he communicated to that... | |
 | 1813 - 592 páginas
...poets, statesmen, and warriors of unquestionable eminence, were our own i but no Englishman had yet added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country, and which alone seemed wanting to fill up the measure of British fame. This remarkable deficiency in... | |
 | Martin Archer Shee - 1814 - 180 páginas
...friend, published immediately after nis death, justly observes, that " he was the first Englishman wlo added the praise of the elegant Arts, to the other glories of his country." Approach — with eager step, approach, and pay 3*5 Your homage here — where Truth and Nature sway.... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 218 páginas
...merited. Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time : — he was the first Englishman who added the praise of...the great masters of the renowned ages. In portrait 160 he went beyond them ; for he communicated to that description of the art in which English artists... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 páginas
...extracted. " Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories,of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 766 páginas
...obfervation of men and manners. Mr Burke fays of him, that " he was the firft Englifhman who added the praife of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In talle, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richnefs and harmony of colouring, he... | |
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Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. 
