 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise. By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster-school, where he was soon distinguished.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise. * By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster School, where he wassoon distinguished.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1827 - 400 pages
...determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had his first fondness for his art, excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise." Did not this early prepossession in favour of his beloved art, so amply informed and excited, inspire... | |
 | David Drummond - 1829 - 230 pages
...his elaborate verse." " Dr. Johnson informs us, that the late groat Pawter of the/ present age " bad the first fondness for. his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's "Treatise." " Helvelius furnishes me with the followiug additional instances." that his education nerer altogether... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...Dr. Johnson says, in the Life of Cowley, " Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present ace, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's Treatise." He adds, " 1 know no man who has passed through life with more observation than Reynolds — whose... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1834 - 1130 pages
...1/. 16s. Bindley, pt. iii. 1095, H. Is. Nassau, pt. ii. 2f>9, U 2s. Bröckelt, 2963, russia, ЗЛ 6s. [ /V D Y wZ ꪔ :/r $ 9e e v q 8S +T d*q < 힕 ݂m Q ⍙ a It ii luirdson's treatise. Essay on the Theory of Painting. Lend. 1715. 8vo. Two Discourses on the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise. By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster School, where he was soon distinguished.... | |
 | John Eddowes (bookseller.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...on Painting, the Art of Criticism, and the Science of the Connoisseur, 8vo, calf, very neat, 5s 1773 Sir Joshua Reynolds had the first fondness for his...art excited by the perusal of Richardson's Treatise. 4758 (Bp. of Ardagh) Choice Observations arid Explanations upon the Old Testament, folio, 5s 1665 4759... | |
 | 1844 - 104 pages
...determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson." The single term " accidentally" involves the whole difference between two systems of mental... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1844 - 476 pages
...determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's Treatise.' In this definition of genius, Reynolds fully concurred with Dr Johnson ; and he was himself an instance... | |
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... forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.... 
