THE WORKS OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, KNIGHT; LATE PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. 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) IN THREE VOLUMES. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR, BY EDMOND MALONE, ESQ. ONE OF HIS EXECUTORS. THE FOURTH EDITION CORRECTED. -QUASI NON EA PRÆCIPIAM ALIIS, QUÆ MIHI IPSI DESUNT. CICERO, 1 VOLUME THE SECOND. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND, By C. and R. Baldwin, New Bridge-street. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. Sculpture. Has but one style. Its objects, form, and character. Ineffectual attempts of the modern Particular methods of study of little consequence.- Little of the art can be taught.-Love of method often a love of idleness. Pittori improvvisatori apt to be careless and incorrect; seldom original and 963501 |