id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 27130 Morrison, Thomas A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. .txt text/plain 9185 672 77 Joshua Reynolds was knighted in 1769, two years after this work was In the summer of 1766 Morrison sent his ode to Reynolds. suggests, the portrait Reynolds had recently completed of the Rev. Zachariah Mudge, then seventy-two years of age, who had been since 1737 yet Morrison's ode is well worth reading today as a pleasing example of Claude Morrison had in mind when writing his ode. "There is great variety in the numbers of this ode; but, in death in 1778, little more is known of the Rev. Thomas Morrison of Great however, are some letters--written by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Morrison was his host on August 27 of that year; while a letter written reading the above letter, recognized the identity of Morrison's poem The last of the three letters from Reynolds to Morrison is dated March Nay-thus, great Artist, has thy hand ./cache/27130.txt ./txt/27130.txt