Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, Johnson, Edward Gilpin · Chicago : A. C. McClurg and company · leaf 405
art. And why? Because these arts, in theirhighest province, are not addressed to the grosssenses, but to the desires of the mind, — to that sparkof divinity which we have within, impatient of beingcircumscribed and pent up by the world which isabout us. Just so much as our art has of this, justso… … Miss NeMv OBrien. DISCOURSE XIV. Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy, on the Distri-btUion of the Prizes, December lo, 1788. CHARACTER OF GAINSBOROUGH : 1—HIS EXCELLENCES AND DEFECTS. In the study of our art, as in the study of all arts,something is the result of our own observation…
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