Excerpt from The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight, Late President of the Royal Academy, Vol. 3 of 3: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, a Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; Printed From His Revised Copies, (With His Last Corrections and Additions) As to the poetical powers of my author, I do not suppose that these alone would ever have given him a. Place in, the numerous. Libra ries which he now holds 3 and I have, there fore, often wondered that M. De Voltaire, when he gave an account of the authors who appeared in the age of Louis XIV. Should dis miss Fresnoy, with saying, in his decisive manner, that his poem has succeeded with such persons as could bear to read Latin verse, not of the Augustan age.e This is the cuts cism of a mere Poet. Nobody, I should sup pose, ever read F resnoy to admire, or even criticise his versification, but either to be in structed by him as a Painter, or improved as a Virtuoso. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.