 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1767 - 316 pages
...is greateft is not always beft. I fhould grieve to fee s transfer to Heroes and to GoddefTea, M 6 to to empty Splendor and to airy Fiction, that art which is now employed in diffufing friendfhip, in reviving tendernefs, in quickening the affections of the abfent, and continuing... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...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 presenceof the... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 196 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...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 reving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 430 pages
...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 reving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pages
...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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 378 pages
...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... | |
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... is chiefly exerted in historical pictures, and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of the 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... 
