 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 renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the...  Distinguished Men of Modern Times - Σελίδα 489των Henry Malden - 1838Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 σελίδες
...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.' The Idler. No. 45. 1 Southey wrote thirty years later: — 'I find daily more and more reason to wonder... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 σελίδες
...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.' It is recorded in Johnson's Works, (1787) xi. 208, that 'Johnson, talking with some persons about '... | |
 | 1803 - 196 σελίδες
...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. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 σελίδες
...splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is new employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 σελίδες
...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. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 σελίδες
...splendour and to airy fiction, thai 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. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 σελίδες
...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. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 430 σελίδες
...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. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 690 σελίδες
...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. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 378 σελίδες
...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. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
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