 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 strani
...splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.' The Idler. No. 45. 1 Southey wrote thirty years later: — 'I find daily more and more reason to wonder... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 strani
...splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.' It is recorded in Johnson's Works, (1787) xi. 208, that 'Johnson, talking with some persons about '... | |
 | 1803 - 196 strani
...splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 strani
...splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is new employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 strani
...splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 strani
...splendour and to airy fiction, thai art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 strani
...empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 430 strani
...empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 378 strani
...splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that of... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 strani
...splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead. " Yet in a nation great and opulent there is room, and ought to be patronage, for an art like that... | |
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I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the... 
