The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... Sir Joshua Reynolds was in company with them one day , when Goldsmith said , that he thought he could write a good fable , mentioned the simplicity which that kind of composition requires , and observed , that in most fables the animals ...
... Sir Joshua Reynolds was in company with them one day , when Goldsmith said , that he thought he could write a good fable , mentioned the simplicity which that kind of composition requires , and observed , that in most fables the animals ...
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... Sir William Temple says of a great general , it is necessary not only that ... JOSHUA REYNOLDS : " I do not perceive why the profession of a player should ... Sir , what does this prove ? only that a lawyer is worse . Boswell is now ...
... Sir William Temple says of a great general , it is necessary not only that ... JOSHUA REYNOLDS : " I do not perceive why the profession of a player should ... Sir , what does this prove ? only that a lawyer is worse . Boswell is now ...
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... Lord Charlemont , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and some more members of the LITERARY CLUB , whom he had obligingly invited to meet me , as I was this evening to be balloted for as candidate for admission into that distinguished society ...
... Lord Charlemont , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and some more members of the LITERARY CLUB , whom he had obligingly invited to meet me , as I was this evening to be balloted for as candidate for admission into that distinguished society ...
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... Sir , you must consider how that penetration and that painting are employed . It is not history , it is imagination . He who describes what he never saw , draws from fancy . Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history ...
... Sir , you must consider how that penetration and that painting are employed . It is not history , it is imagination . He who describes what he never saw , draws from fancy . Robertson paints minds as Sir Joshua paints faces in a history ...
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... Sir Joshua is of opinion that he owed not less than two thousand pounds . Was ever poet so trusted before ? " You may , if you please , put the inscription thus : " Maria Scotorum Regina nata 15— , a suis in exilium acta 15— , ab ...
... Sir Joshua is of opinion that he owed not less than two thousand pounds . Was ever poet so trusted before ? " You may , if you please , put the inscription thus : " Maria Scotorum Regina nata 15— , a suis in exilium acta 15— , ab ...
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