Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, Burnet, John, 1784-1868 · London : J. Carpenter · leaf 290
must, as the Roman poet says, turnover the Grecian models by night and by day; for he adds in another place,— Qui studet optatam cursu contingere metam,Multa tulit fecitque puer; sudavit et alsit;Abstinuit Venereet Baccho. 5 There must be some mistake here. See Grays Note to his poem of the Bard,… … THE FIFTEENTH DISCOURSE. 201 works, and from whom all liis contemporaries and successors have derivedwhatever they have possessed of the dignified and the majestic; thathe was the bright luminary from whom Painting has borrowed a newlustre; that under his hands it assumed a new appearance, and is…
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