 | 1866 - 956 pages
...deserved. " 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 harmony of colouring,... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1845 - 324 pages
...deserved. "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 harmony of colouring,... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 pages
...deserved. 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 harmony of colouring,... | |
 | People - 1845 - 346 pages
...Burke. " 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 harmony of colouring,... | |
 | 1846 - 316 pages
...be told. " Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on 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 harmony of... | |
 | John Frost - 1846 - 332 pages
...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 harmony of colouring,... | |
 | 1847 - 296 pages
...deserved. Sir J. 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 falcility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...Jotfhua Reynold* was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time He was the lirst Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glorii.-s of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 388 pages
...in which Burke has commemorated his friend Sir Joshua Reynolds, when he says, — " He was the first who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country."* An ingenious English writer, who sees Art at once with the eye of taste and humanity, has said, in... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 428 pages
...in which Burke has commemorated his friend Sir Joshua Eeynolds, when he says, — " He was the first who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country." * An ingenious English writer, who sees Art at once with the eye of taste and humanity, and whom I... | |
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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. 
