...evil as well as to active benevolence. Johnson called Reynolds the most invulnerable man he knew, " the man with whom, if you should quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse." The famous lines in Goldsmith's "Retaliation" are little more than an amplification of this idea, and...

...Joshua Reynolds. This led Dr. Johnson and me to talk of our amiable and elegant friend, whose panegyrick he concluded by saying, "Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir,...bounded by land on the other side, and, though there is the grandeur of a fleet, there is also the impression of there being a dock-yard, the circumstances...

...you I should lose almost the only man whom I call a friend.' Later on he characterised Reynolds as ' the most invulnerable man I know, the man with whom...you would find the most difficulty how to abuse.' Angelica Kauffmann confessed that she was dying for Sir Joshua. Burke paid homage to his memory in...

...Joshua is even more attractive and interesting as a man than as a painter. Johnson described him as " the most invulnerable man I know : the man with whom...you would find the most difficulty how to abuse," and in 1764, when Reynolds suffered a short but dangerous illness, Johnson wrote the following letter...

...Joshua is even more attractive and interesting as a man than as a painter. Johnson described him as " the most invulnerable man I know : the man with whom...you would find the most difficulty how to abuse," and in 1764, when Reynolds suffered a short but dangerous illness, Johnson wrote the following letter...

...one of the most amiable men of the eighteenth century. " Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir," said Johnson, " is the most invulnerable man I know; the man with...you would find the most difficulty how to abuse;" and if Sir Joshua was invulnerable, it was because he possessed an uncommon share of the virtues in...