Supplement to the Memoirs of the Life, Writings, Discourses, and Professional Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt. Late President of the Royal Academy: ... Contemporaries (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Supplement to the Memoirs of the Life, Writings, Discourses, and Professional Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt. Late President of the Royal Academy: Comprising Additional Anecdotes of His Distinguished Contemporaries

OF a man so various in his knowledge, so accomplished in his manners, and so eminent in his art, as Sir Joshua Reynolds, it can scarcely ever be possible to give an adequate biography. Had the Memoir been reserved for the nine years prescribed by the poet, still would it have appeared before the public in an imperfect state. Yet I do not hesitate to confess, that if so much time for consideration and correction had been allowed, many parts might have been deemed proper to be omitted, and others more fully related, or more accurately arranged.

But the occasion on which the work appeared, was import ant, and, from the very short time between the conception and the execution of the attempt, any very near, approach to excellence ought not to have been expected, though perhaps my endeavours have gone so far beyond mediocrity, as not to be totally unworthy of him they were intended to celebrate.

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