THE LITERARY WORKS OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, KT. LATE PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY; CONTAINING HIS DISCOURSES, PAPERS IN THE IDLER, THE JOURNAL OF A AND ALSO HIS COMMENTARY ON DU FRESNOY'S ART OF PAINTING. PRINTED FROM THE AUTHOR'S REVISED COPIES, IN THREE VOLUMES. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, Some Account of the Life of the Author, BY EDMOND MALONE, Esq. ONE OF HIS EXECUTORS. THE FIFTH EDITION, CORRECTED : In which is now included, A MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, --Quasi non ea præcipiam aliis, quæ mihi ipsi desunt. — CICERO. PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND, BOOKSELLERS TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY. CONTENTS The Art of Painting, by C. A. Dufresnoy, trans- lated into English Verse by the Rev. William Annotations on Du Fresnoy's Poem . . . . . . 93 Du Fresnoy's Sentiments on the principal Painters Parallel between Poetry and Painting .. 215 Chronological List of Painters, with short cha- 339 |