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Burkiana:
The virtues of Ins public and private life were not , in him , of different characters . It was the same feeling , benevolent , liberal mind , which , in the internal relations of life , conciliated the unfeigned love of those who see men as they are , which made him an inflexible patriot . He was devoted to the cause of liberty , not because he was haughty and untraceable , but because he was beneficent and humane . Let his successorswho from this house behold this monument
, , reiieft that their conduct will make it their glory or their reproach . Let them be persuaded that similarity of manners , not proximity of blood , gives them an interest in this statue . —Remember , resemble , persevere .
CHARACTER OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . His illness was long , but borne with a mild aud cheerful fortitude , without the least mixture of any thing irritable or querulous , agreeably to the placid and even tenor of his whole life . He had , from the beginning of his malady , a distinct , view of his dissolution ; and he contemplated it with that entire composure , which nothing but the '
innocence , integrity , and usefulness of his life , and an unaffected submission to the will of Providence could bestow . In this situation , he had every consolation from family tenderness , which his own kindness had indeed well deserved . Sir Joshua Reynolds was , on very many accounts , one of the most ) memorable men of his time . He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country . In taste , in grace , in facility , in happy invention , and in the richness and harmony of colouring , he was equal to the great masters of the
renowned ages . In portrait he went far beyond them ; for he communicated to that description of the art , in which the English artists are most engaged , a variety , a fancy , and a dignity , derived from the hi gher branches , which even those , who professed them in a supelior manner , did not always preserve , when they delineated individual nature . His portraits remember the spectator of the invention of history and the amenity of landscape . In painting portraits he
ap peared not to be raised upon that platform , but to descend to it from a hi gher sphere . His paintings illustrate his lessons , and his lessons seem to be derived from his paintings . He possessed the theory as perfectly as the practice of his art . To be such a painter , he was a profound and penetrating philosopher . In full assurance of forei and domestic fameadmired bthe
gn , y expert in art and the learned in science , courted by the great , caressed J > y soverei gn powers , and celebrated by distinguished poets , his natlv'e humility , modesty and candour never forsook him , even on surprise or provocation ; nor was the least degree of arrogance or assumption visible to the most scrutinizing eve ' in any part of his con" « or discourse .
His talents of every kind , powerful from nature , and not meanl y "' tivate d bv letters , his social virtues , in ail the relations andall the 'witudes of life , rendered him the centre of a very great and unpaia 'le . ed variety of . societies , which will be dissipated by his death , VQL - X 1 - 3 : . . -
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Burkiana:
The virtues of Ins public and private life were not , in him , of different characters . It was the same feeling , benevolent , liberal mind , which , in the internal relations of life , conciliated the unfeigned love of those who see men as they are , which made him an inflexible patriot . He was devoted to the cause of liberty , not because he was haughty and untraceable , but because he was beneficent and humane . Let his successorswho from this house behold this monument
, , reiieft that their conduct will make it their glory or their reproach . Let them be persuaded that similarity of manners , not proximity of blood , gives them an interest in this statue . —Remember , resemble , persevere .
CHARACTER OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . His illness was long , but borne with a mild aud cheerful fortitude , without the least mixture of any thing irritable or querulous , agreeably to the placid and even tenor of his whole life . He had , from the beginning of his malady , a distinct , view of his dissolution ; and he contemplated it with that entire composure , which nothing but the '
innocence , integrity , and usefulness of his life , and an unaffected submission to the will of Providence could bestow . In this situation , he had every consolation from family tenderness , which his own kindness had indeed well deserved . Sir Joshua Reynolds was , on very many accounts , one of the most ) memorable men of his time . He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country . In taste , in grace , in facility , in happy invention , and in the richness and harmony of colouring , he was equal to the great masters of the
renowned ages . In portrait he went far beyond them ; for he communicated to that description of the art , in which the English artists are most engaged , a variety , a fancy , and a dignity , derived from the hi gher branches , which even those , who professed them in a supelior manner , did not always preserve , when they delineated individual nature . His portraits remember the spectator of the invention of history and the amenity of landscape . In painting portraits he
ap peared not to be raised upon that platform , but to descend to it from a hi gher sphere . His paintings illustrate his lessons , and his lessons seem to be derived from his paintings . He possessed the theory as perfectly as the practice of his art . To be such a painter , he was a profound and penetrating philosopher . In full assurance of forei and domestic fameadmired bthe
gn , y expert in art and the learned in science , courted by the great , caressed J > y soverei gn powers , and celebrated by distinguished poets , his natlv'e humility , modesty and candour never forsook him , even on surprise or provocation ; nor was the least degree of arrogance or assumption visible to the most scrutinizing eve ' in any part of his con" « or discourse .
His talents of every kind , powerful from nature , and not meanl y "' tivate d bv letters , his social virtues , in ail the relations andall the 'witudes of life , rendered him the centre of a very great and unpaia 'le . ed variety of . societies , which will be dissipated by his death , VQL - X 1 - 3 : . . -