self-painter

Updated: May 11, 2025

But they must be composed with calmness, with simplicity, and with sincerity; the biographic sketch of Hume, written by himself, is a model of Attic simplicity. The Life of Lord Herbert is a biographical curiosity. The Memoirs of Sir William Jones, of Priestley, and of Gibbon, offer us the daily life of the student; and those of Colley Cibber are a fine picture of the self-painter.

Isaac Disraeli - Literary Character of Men of Genius: Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions

Bishop HORNE, whose literary feelings were of the most delicate and lively kind, has beautifully recorded them in his progress through a favourite and lengthened work his Commentary on the Psalms. He alludes to himself in the third person; yet who but the self-painter could have caught those delicious emotions which are so evanescent in the deep occupation of pleasant studies?

Isaac Disraeli - Literary Character of Men of Genius: Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions

Count DE CAYLUS, celebrated for his collections, and for his generous patronage of artists, has given the last touches to this picture of the man of letters, with all the delicacy and warmth of a self-painter.

Isaac Disraeli - Literary Character of Men of Genius: Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions