[P lxx, note 38, quoting Dr Johnson in 1761] Reynolds is without a rival, and continues to add

thousands to thousands.

How much did Barry Get

[P lxxii, Malone, on the French plundering] . . . of the most celebrated works of the Flemish

School in the Netherlands (for I will not gratify our English republicans by calling it

BELGIUM)... .

[why then gratify Flemish, Knaves & Fools]

[P lxxii] . . . he . . . devoted several days to contemplating the productions of that great painter

[Rubens] .

If Reynolds had Really admired Mich Angelo he never would have followd Rubens

[P lxxxiii, note 48 on the Literary Club] The original members were, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dr.

Johnson, Mr. Burke, Dr. Nugent, Mr. Langton, Mr. Antony Chamier, Sir John Hawkins, the Hon.

Topham Beauclerk, and Dr. Goldsmith.

[Oliver Goldsmith ?never should have known such knaves]

[P lxxxvi, Malone on Reynolds' sincerity] His ardent love of truth. . . . his strong antipathy to all

false pretensions. . . .

[0 Shame False]

[P lxxxvii, note 49] He had painted, as he once observed to me, TWO GENERATIONS of the

beauties of England.

[God blasts Them As Though? he ?were lost? Eurydice]

[P lxxxix, note 51, on Reynolds' deafness] When in company with only one person, he heard

very well, . . .

A Sly Dog So can Every body; but bring Two People & the Hearing is Stopped

[P xc, note 53 quoting Goldsmith's epitaph on Reynolds]

Such Men as Goldsmith ought not to have been Acquainted with such Men as

Reynold

[P xci; Malone comparing Reynolds to Laelius]

[Why should Laelius be considered Sir Joshuas Counterpart]