 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...deserved. Sir Joshua Keynolds 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 coloring, he... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 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 coloring, he... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 pages
...writes Burke, " on very many accounts one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the fir? t 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 arid harmony of colouring,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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 coloring, he... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 394 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 Timbs - 1860 - 424 pages
...Joshua Reynolds, (says Burke,) 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, in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 pages
...after Hogarth's death — affirmed, and affirmed without contradiction, that " Sir Joshua Reynolds was the first Englishman who added the praise of the...elegant arts to the other glories of his country." But, however it might be in the days of George II., when his successor aicended the throne it must... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1861 - 334 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 Ramsay McCulloch - 1862 - 432 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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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...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 coloring, 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. 
