 | John Timbs - 1860 - 424 pages
...my mind," he says, "to think justly. The observations he made on poetry, on life, and on everything about us, I applied to our art, with what success others must judge." This mode of adapting the knowledge possessed by others to our own requirements is one of the greatest benefits... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 pages
...and if it must be attributed to vanity, let it at the same time be recollected, that it produced that loquaciousness from which his more intimate friends...to our art ; with what success, others must judge. Perhaps an artist in his studies should pursue the same conduct ; and, instead of patching up a particular... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 468 pages
...and if it must be attributed to vanity, let it at the same time be recollected, that it produced that loquaciousness from which his more intimate friends...to our art ; with what success, others must judge. Perhaps an artist in his studies should pursue the same conduct ; and, instead of patching up a particular... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 pages
...JOHNSON." And again he says — " The observations which he made on poetry, on life, and on everything about us, I applied to our art ; with what success others must judge." Bennet Langton rather spitefully remarked, on JOHNSON'S death, to Sir John Hawkins — "We shall now... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1886 - 360 pages
...exhibited his wonderful powers. The observations which he made on poetry, on life, and on everything about us, I applied to our art — with what success others must judge." The price which Reynolds at first received for a head was five guineas ; the rate increased with his... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 530 pages
...and if it must be attributed to vanity, let it at the same time be recollected, that it produced that loquaciousness from which his more intimate friends...to our art ; with what success, others must judge. Perhaps an artist in his studies should pursue the same conduct ; and, instead of patching up a particular... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1909 - 518 pages
...attributed to vanity, let it at the same time be recollected, that it produced that lo quaciousness from which his more intimate friends derived considerable...to our art ; with what success others must judge. Perhaps an artist in his studies should pursue the same conduct ; and instead of patching up a particular... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...if it must be attributed to vanity, let it, at the same time, be recollected, that it produced that loquaciousness from which his more intimate friends...made on poetry, on life, and on every thing about us, 1 applied to our art—with what success others may judge." * * Malone's Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds,... | |
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... his auditors ; and to such persons he certainly did not appear to advantage, being often impetuous and overbearing. The desire of shining in conversation was in him indeed a predominant passion; and if it must be attributed to vanity, let it at the... 
