The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5Pafraets Book Company, 1903 |
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Pagina 231
... Genius is chiefly exerted in historical pictures ; and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of his subject . But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best . I should grieve to see ...
... Genius is chiefly exerted in historical pictures ; and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of his subject . But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best . I should grieve to see ...
Pagina 296
... genius , and that Cicero could never be a poet . The boy retires illuminated , resolves to follow his genius , and to think how Milton would have thought : and Minim feasts upon his own beneficence till another day brings another pupil ...
... genius , and that Cicero could never be a poet . The boy retires illuminated , resolves to follow his genius , and to think how Milton would have thought : and Minim feasts upon his own beneficence till another day brings another pupil ...
Pagina 351
... genius ; for what- ever part of an art can be executed or criticised by rules , that part is no longer the work of genius , which implies excellence out of the reach of rules . For my own part , I profess myself an Idler , and love to ...
... genius ; for what- ever part of an art can be executed or criticised by rules , that part is no longer the work of genius , which implies excellence out of the reach of rules . For my own part , I profess myself an Idler , and love to ...
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