This Exhibition has filled the heads of the Artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return. A History of the Royal Society of Arts - Page 220by Henry Trueman Wood - 1913 - 558 pagesFull view - About this book
| Periodicals - 1788 - 404 pages
...art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, fince we are forced to call in the afliftance of fo many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return. 1 know my Baretti will not be fatisfied with a letter in which I give him no account of myfelf r yet... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...retaining his kindness for Baretti. This Exhibition has filled the heads of the Artists and lovers of art Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since...of our time, of that time which never can return. 1 Hawkins (Life, p. 318) says that Johnson told him ' that in his whole life he was never capable of... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...retaining his kindness for Baretti. This Exhibition has filled the heads of the Artists and lovers of art Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since...of our time, of that time which never can return. ' Hawkins (Life, p. 318) says that Johnson told him 'that in his whole life he was never capable of... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...heads of the Artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we -tire forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles...of our time, of that time which never can return. " I know my Baretti will not be satisfied with a letter in which I give him no account of myself :... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...retaining his kindness for Baretti. This Exhibition has filled the heads of the Artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since...of our time, of that time which never can return. ' ; I know my Baretti will not be satisfied with a letter in which 1 give him no account of myself:... | |
| Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 pages
...tion. This exhibition has filled the heads of the artists and lovers'of arts.—Surely life, if it is not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call...of our time ; of that time which never can return. I know my Baretti will not be satisfied with a letter in which I give him no account of myself: yet... | |
| Elizabeth Frank - English language - 1814 - 400 pages
...reputation. This exhibition has filled the heads of the artists and lovers of arts. — Surely life, if it is not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call...of our time ; of that time which never can return. I know my Baretti will not be satisfied with a letter in which I give him no account of myself: yet... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1814 - 718 pages
...kindness for Barretti.' ' This exhibition has filled the heads of the artists, and lover» *. art. Sorely life, if it be not long, is tedious ; since we are forced to call in tire assistance of' so many trifles, to rid us of our time — of that time which never can return.'... | |
| English letters - 1816 - 358 pages
...the artists and lovers of arts. — Surely life, if it is not long, is tedious, since we are foreed to call in the assistance of so many trifles, to rid...of our time; of that time which never can return. I know my Baretti will not be satisfied with a letter in which I give him no account of myself : yet... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...retaining his kindness for Buretti. This exhibition has filled the heads of the Artists and lovers of art. Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since...assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, ofthat time which never can return. more than in former seasons. But I have gone thither only to encape... | |
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