Sir Joshua Reynolds, this good Samaritan, was, like Dr. Burney, though well-read and deeply studious, as easy and natural in discourse3 as if he had been merely a man of the world; and though his own
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art was his passion, he was open to the warmest admiration4 of every other: and again, like the Doctor, he was gay though contemplative, and flew from indolence, though he courted enjoyment5. There was a striking resemblance in the general amenity6 of their intercourse7, that not only made them, at all times, and with all persons, free from any approach to envy, peevishness8, or sarcasm9 themselves, but seemed to spread around them a suavity10 that dissolved those angry passions in others.
In his chronological11 doggrels, Dr. Burney records that he now began his intimacy12 with the great English Raphael; of whom he adds,
“’Twere vain throughout Europe to look for his peer
Who by converse13 and pencil alike can endear.”

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