The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds : Comprising Original Anecdotes of Many Distinguished Persons, His Contemporaries; and a Brief Analysis of His Discourses, Том 1Henry Colburn, 1819 |
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... notice a few observations that my friends have made , on the perusal of these Memoirs , as being the most important which have come to my knowledge . That much new matter would be looked for , in such a work , is not unreasonable ; yet ...
... notice a few observations that my friends have made , on the perusal of these Memoirs , as being the most important which have come to my knowledge . That much new matter would be looked for , in such a work , is not unreasonable ; yet ...
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... notice Thomas Rennell , a scholar of Hudson , some years previous to the time of Sir Joshua , who was born of a good family , long settled in that county near Chudleigh , in the year 1718. After remaining some time at the grammar school ...
... notice Thomas Rennell , a scholar of Hudson , some years previous to the time of Sir Joshua , who was born of a good family , long settled in that county near Chudleigh , in the year 1718. After remaining some time at the grammar school ...
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... notice , ) that it is certain that Sir Joshua had an uncle , whose christian name was Joshua , who dwelt at Exeter , and also was his godfather , but not being present at the baptism of his nephew , was represented by a Mr. Aldwin ; the ...
... notice , ) that it is certain that Sir Joshua had an uncle , whose christian name was Joshua , who dwelt at Exeter , and also was his godfather , but not being present at the baptism of his nephew , was represented by a Mr. Aldwin ; the ...
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... portraits of the noble family of Aber- corn are also very correctly stated to have brought him into con- siderable notice at the above period . speak of this painter's portraits , which are to be 1743. ] 21 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS .
... portraits of the noble family of Aber- corn are also very correctly stated to have brought him into con- siderable notice at the above period . speak of this painter's portraits , which are to be 1743. ] 21 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS .
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... notice , and he was employed busily in painting the por- traits of almost all the officers in the garrison and on the station , greatly to the improvement of his skill and fortune . To General Blakeney , the governor , he was much ...
... notice , and he was employed busily in painting the por- traits of almost all the officers in the garrison and on the station , greatly to the improvement of his skill and fortune . To General Blakeney , the governor , he was much ...
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Страница 202 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand: His manners were gentle, complying, and bland; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Страница 133 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Страница 247 - ... while those which depend for their existence on particular customs and habits, a partial view of nature, or the fluctuation of fashion, can only be coeval with that which first raised them from obscurity. Present time and future may be considered as rivals ; and he who solicits the one must expect to be discountenanced by the other.
Страница 208 - ... a mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great ; can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator. The wish of the genuine painter must be more extensive: instead of endeavouring to amuse mankind with the minute neatness of his imitations, he must endeavour to improve them by the grandeur of his ideas ; instead of seeking praise, by deceiving the superficial sense of the spectator, he must strive for fame by captivating the imagination.
Страница 70 - If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair
Страница 162 - I would chiefly recommend that an implicit obedience to the Rules of Art, as established by the practice of the great MASTERS, should be exacted from the young Students. That those models, which have passed through the approbation of ages, should be considered by them as perfect and infallible guides ; as subjects for their imitation, not their criticism.
Страница 210 - ... idea which has acquired, and which seems to have a right to the epithet of divine; as it may be said to preside, like a supreme judge, over all the productions of nature appearing to be possessed of the will and intention of the Creator, as far as they regard the external form of living beings.
Страница 102 - By a solicitous examination of objections and judicious comparison of opposite arguments, he attained, what enquiry never gives but to industry and perspicuity, a firm and unshaken settlement of conviction. But his firmness was without asperity ; for, knowing with how much difficulty truth was sometimes found, he did not wonder that many missed it.
Страница 209 - Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. But though there neither are, nor can be, any precise invariable rules for the exercise, or the acquisition, of these great qualities, yet we may truly say, that they always operate in proportion to our attention in observing the works of Nature, to our skill in selecting, and to our care in digesting, methodizing, and comparing our observations.
Страница 225 - 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 heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.