 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 452 oldal
...Arts before his time, when skill in drawing was so little understood, that the best of the painters could not even foreshorten the foot, but every figure...concerns of life. He is indeed a signal instance of what well-directed diligence will do in a short time ; he lived but twentyseven years ; yet in that short... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 oldal
...Arts before his time, when skill in drawing was so little understood, that the best of the painters could not even foreshorten the foot, but every figure...concerns of life. He is indeed a signal instance of what well-directed diligence will do in a short time ; he lived but twentyseven years ; yet in that short... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 440 oldal
...Arts before his time, when skill in drawing was so little understood, that the best of the painters could not even foreshorten the foot, but every figure...concerns of life. He is indeed a signal instance of what well-directed diligence will do in a short time ; he lived but twentyseven years ; yet in that short... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 446 oldal
...whole attention was absorbed in the pursuit of his art, and that he acquired the name of Masaccib*, from his total disregard to his dress, his person,...concerns of life. He is indeed a signal instance of what well-directed diligence will do in a short time; he lived but twentyseven years ; yet in that short... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 420 oldal
...insinuate the obligations of this great genius to others, as if he would have been nothing without them ! stand upon his toes ; and what served for drapery...concerns of life. He is indeed a signal instance of what well-directed diligence will do in a short time : he lived but twenty-seven years ; yet in that short... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 oldal
...not even foreshorten the foot, but every figure appeared to stand upon his roes; and what serredfor drapery, had, from the hardness and smallness of the...of life. He is, indeed, a signal instance of what welldirected diligence will do in a short time ; he lived but twenty-seven years; yet in that short... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 318 oldal
...addition of accio denotes some deformity or imperfection attending that person to whom it is applied. R. all the common concerns of life. He is, indeed, a...lived but twenty-seven years ; yet in that short space he carried the art so far beyond what it had before reached, that he appears to stand alone as a model... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1844 - 476 oldal
...insinuate the obligations of this great genius to others, as if he would have been nothing without them ! his contemporaries for his diligence and industry,...concerns of life. He is indeed a signal instance of what well-directed diligence will do in a short time : he lived but twentyseven years ; yet in that short... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1846 - 506 oldal
...afterwards arrived, and may, therefore, be justly considered as one of the great Fathers of modern Ait. Though I have been led on to a longer digression respecting...of life. He is, indeed, a signal instance of what welldirected diligence will do in a short time ; he lived but twenty-seven years ; yet in that short... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1846 - 514 oldal
...eminent degree ; he was as much distinguished among his contemporaries for his diligence and industry, a* he was for the natural faculties of his mind. We are...concerns of life. He is indeed a signal instance of what welldirected diligence will do in a short time : he lived but twentyseven years ; yet in that short... | |
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Though I have been led on to a longer digression respecting this great Painter than I intended, yet I cannot avoid mentioning another excellence which he possessed in a very eminent degree ; he was as much distinguished among his contemporaries for his... 
