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... common - place . This , though it takes up much time in copying , conduces little to improvement . I con- sider general copying as a delusive kind of industry ; the Student satisfies himself with the appearance of doing something ; he ...
... common - place . This , though it takes up much time in copying , conduces little to improvement . I con- sider general copying as a delusive kind of industry ; the Student satisfies himself with the appearance of doing something ; he ...
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... common to find · studies of the Venetian and Flemish Painters on canvass , as of the schools of Rome and Florence on paper . Not but that many finished drawings are sold under the names of those Masters . Those , however , are ...
... common to find · studies of the Venetian and Flemish Painters on canvass , as of the schools of Rome and Florence on paper . Not but that many finished drawings are sold under the names of those Masters . Those , however , are ...
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... common observation and a plain understanding can confer . Thus he becomes gloomy amidst the splendour of figurative declamation , and thinks it hopeless to pursue an object which he supposes out of the reach of human industry . But on ...
... common observation and a plain understanding can confer . Thus he becomes gloomy amidst the splendour of figurative declamation , and thinks it hopeless to pursue an object which he supposes out of the reach of human industry . But on ...
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... common , has acquired the power of discerning what each wants in particular . This long laborious comparison should be the first study of the Painter who aims at the greatest style . By this means , he acquires a just idea of beautiful ...
... common , has acquired the power of discerning what each wants in particular . This long laborious comparison should be the first study of the Painter who aims at the greatest style . By this means , he acquires a just idea of beautiful ...
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... common idea and central form , which is the abstract of the various individual forms belonging to that class . Thus , though the forms of childhood and age differ exceedingly , there is a common form in childhood , and a common form in ...
... common idea and central form , which is the abstract of the various individual forms belonging to that class . Thus , though the forms of childhood and age differ exceedingly , there is a common form in childhood , and a common form in ...
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Academy acquired admirable advantage Albert Durer ancient antique appear artist attention beauty Carlo Maratti character Claude Lorrain colour composition considered contrary Correggio criticism defects degree dignity discourse drapery drawing dress effect elegance Elymas endeavour equal excellence exhibit expression figures finished Gainsborough genius give grace grandeur greater greatest habit higher highest idea imagination imitation instance invention justly kind knowledge labour landscape light and shade manner Marriage at Cana Masaccio masters means method Michael Angelo mind mode modern nature necessary never object observed opinion original ornaments painter painting passions Paul Veronese peculiar perfection perhaps picture Pietro Perugino poet poetry portraits possess Poussin practice principles produced racter Raffaelle reason Rembrandt Reynolds Roman school Rubens rules says sculpture seems shadow simplicity spectator student style sublime taste thing thought Tintoret Titian true truth Vandyck variety Venetian Venetian school Veronese vulgar whole wish
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Página 161 - And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed; Whence true authority in men; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him...
Página 220 - Or ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were ; And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before ; And all their friends and native home forget, To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.
Página 232 - He the best player!" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 42 - There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell, whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions, the other by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one Excellent.
Página 96 - Invention is one of the great marks of genius ; but if we consult experience, we shall find that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others, that we learn to invent : as by reading the thoughts of others, we learn to think.
Página 32 - You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them : if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour : nothing is to be obtained without it.
Página 233 - Shakespeare that he assumes as an unquestionable principle a position which, while his breath is forming it into words, his understanding pronounces to be false. It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality, that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.
Página 81 - Mankind, who by the mere Strength of natural Parts, and without any Assistance of Art or Learning, have produced Works that were the Delight of their own Times and the Wonder of Posterity.
Página 33 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Página 40 - I have here offered, than that music, architecture, and painting, as well as poetry and oratory, are to deduce their laws and rules from the general sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves ; or, in other words, the taste is not to conform to the art, but the art to the taste.