 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...found him at home by himself. JOHNSON : " Well, Sir, Ramsay gave us a splendid dinner. I love Kamsay. ure, Still to ourselves in every place consign'd. Our own felicity we make or find ; With secret co eletrance, than in Bamsay's." BOSWELL : " What I admire in Kamsay, is his continuing to be so young."... | |
 | Books - 1832 - 650 pages
...cold regard for his profession. Dr. Johnson must have thought very highly of him, when he declared, " You will not find a man, in whose conversation there is more instruction, more information, or more elegance, than in Ramsay's." Notwithstanding his indifference to his profession, he succeeded... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 730 pages
...and somewhat passionate, but easily appeased. He was an accomplished modern scholar ; and Dr. Johnson said of him, " You will not find a man in whose conversation there is more instruction, more information, or more elegance, than in Ramsay's." Dr. Johnsons passion for tea was not greater than Ramsay's, who... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...painter as a man of polished education and extensive information. " You will not," says the Doctor, " find a man in whose conversation there is more instruction, more information, or more elegance, than in Ramsay's." Northcote, in his ' Conversations,' speaks of him as follows :... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...painter as a man of polished education and extensive information. " You will not," says the Doctor, " find a man in whose conversation there is more instruction, more information, or more elegance, than in Ramsay's." Northcote, in his ' Conversations,' speaks of him as follows :... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 512 pages
...painter as a man of polished education and extensive information. " You will not," says the Doctor, " find a man in whose conversation there is more instruction, more information, or more elegance, than in Ramsay's." Northcote, in his ' Conversations,' speaks of him as follows :... | |
 | Shearjashub Spooner - Artists - 1865 - 662 pages
...faithful representation of his subjects, devoid of the affectation that prevailed among his cotemporaries in London. Although he did not reach the highest rank...regenerate the art in his country. He was well versed irfliterature. and Boswell mentions hiuf as a frequenter of the literary parties of Dr. Johnson, who... | |
 | Shearjashub Spooner - Artists - 1867 - 654 pages
...faithful representation of his subjects, devoid of the affectation that prevailed among his cotemporaries in London. Although he did not reach the highest rank...in his country. He was well versed in literature, andsBoswell mentions him as a frequenter' of the literary parties of Dr. Johnson, who said of him,... | |
 | Shearjashub Spooner - Artists - 1873 - 664 pages
...faithful representation of his subjects, devoid of the affectation that prevailed among his cotemporaries in London. Although he did not reach the highest rank...Dr. Johnson, who said of him, -'you will not find a mnn in whose conversation there is more instruction, more information, and more elegance, than in that... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...elegant accomplished man of the world and public favourite." He was frequently of Dr. Johnson's parties, who said of him, " You will not find a man in whose...conversation there is more instruction, more information and elegance, than in Ramsay's." He died in 1784. John Ramsay, a son of the painter, and grandson of the... | |
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'you will not find a man in whose conversation there is more instruction, more information, and more elegance, than in that of Ramsay. 
