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Sir Joshua Reynolds

  

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Sir Joshua Reynolds : The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

"On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont: "'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very acceptable present of Sir Joshua Reynolds works, which with the life I have nearly read through. Several of the discourses I had read before though never regularly together: they have very much added to the high opinion which I before entertained of Sir Joshua Reynolds.' "W[ordsworth's first comprehensive reading of Reynolds' works can be dated to four or five days in the middle of July 1804."

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

Sir Joshua Reynolds : Discourses

"On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont: "'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very acceptable present of Sir Joshua Reynolds works, which with the life I have nearly read through. Several of the discourses I had read before though never regularly together: they have very much added to the high opinion which I before entertained of Sir Joshua Reynolds.' "W[ordsworth]'s first comprehensive reading of Reynolds' works can be dated to four or five days in the middle of July 1804. He had, of course, referred to the Discourses in the 1798 Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads."

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

Sir Joshua Reynolds : Works

William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and Beautiful] when very Young at the same time I read Locke on Human Understanding & Bacons Advancmt [sic] of Learning on Every one of these Books I wrote my Opinions & on looking them over find that my Notes on Reynolds in this Book are exactly Similar. I felt the Same Comtempt & Abhorrence then; that I do now.'"

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Blake      Print: Book

  

Sir Joshua Reynolds : Memoirs

Felicia Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811: 'I have been reading lately the memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with his discourses to the Royal Academy, & I am so enthusiastic an admirer of the beauties of painting, that I derived both pleasure and instruction from the perusal.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Browne      Print: Book

  

Sir Joshua Reynolds : Discourses

Felicia Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811: 'I have been reading lately the memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with his discourses to the Royal Academy, & I am so enthusiastic an admirer of the beauties of painting, that I derived both pleasure and instruction from the perusal.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Browne      Print: Book

  

Sir Joshua Reynolds : The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

'Read some Sir Joshua"

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

Sir Joshua Reynolds : The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

'read a little Sir Joshua'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

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