 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 страници
...raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor ves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to cat be hardly said to invent; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to... | |
 | 1838 - 1056 страници
...raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent : yet his exhibitions have such an air of originality that it is difficult... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 страници
...raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 страници
...by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly ed in the " Spectator." To teach the minuter decencies and inferi thnt it is difficult to suppose them not merely the products of imagination. As a teacher of wisdom... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1842 - 318 страници
...to the works of a celebrated author : " He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent; yet his exhibitions have an air so...original, that it is difficult to suppose them not explain what kind of borrowing I mean, when I recommend so anxiously the study of the works of great... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 страници
...raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much...fidelity, that he can hardly be said to invent ; yet his exhi10 bitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the product... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1853 - 546 страници
...raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much...exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is dimcult to suppose them not merely the product of imagination."* Dr. Johnson here characterises the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 страници
...raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original that it is difficult to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 страници
...raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 страници
...merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. Hia figures neither divert by distortion, nor amuse by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity,...have an air so much original, that it is difficult not to suppose them merely the product of imagination. His prose (he adds) is the model of the middle... | |
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outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can... 
