The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Volumen1T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the strand, 1809 |
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Página xxix
... perhaps some of the old Gothick masters , and not the inven- tions of Pietro da Cortona , Carlo Maratti , Luca Giordano , and others that I might mention , which we seek after with avidity . From the former we learn to think originally ...
... perhaps some of the old Gothick masters , and not the inven- tions of Pietro da Cortona , Carlo Maratti , Luca Giordano , and others that I might mention , which we seek after with avidity . From the former we learn to think originally ...
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... Perhaps other men might have equal knowledge ; but few were so communicative . His great pleasure was to talk to those who looked up to him . It was here he exhibited his won- derful powers . " In mixed company , and frequently in ...
... Perhaps other men might have equal knowledge ; but few were so communicative . His great pleasure was to talk to those who looked up to him . It was here he exhibited his won- derful powers . " In mixed company , and frequently in ...
Página xxxi
... Perhaps an artist in his studies should pursue the same conduct ; and in- stead of patching up a particular work on the narrow plan of imitation , rather en- deavour to acquire the art and power of thinking . On this subject I have ...
... Perhaps an artist in his studies should pursue the same conduct ; and in- stead of patching up a particular work on the narrow plan of imitation , rather en- deavour to acquire the art and power of thinking . On this subject I have ...
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... perhaps a more happy life ; if happi- ness or the enjoyment of life consists in having the mind . always occupied , always intent upon some useful art , by which fame and distinction may be acquired . Mr. Mo- ser's whole attention was ...
... perhaps a more happy life ; if happi- ness or the enjoyment of life consists in having the mind . always occupied , always intent upon some useful art , by which fame and distinction may be acquired . Mr. Mo- ser's whole attention was ...
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... perhaps . have remarked in nature the expression which I find in one of his pieces ; or if I had remarked it , I might have thought it too difficult or perhaps impossible to be executed . 46 My success , and continual improvement in my ...
... perhaps . have remarked in nature the expression which I find in one of his pieces ; or if I had remarked it , I might have thought it too difficult or perhaps impossible to be executed . 46 My success , and continual improvement in my ...
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Página lxxviii - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Página xcii - Of men, by laws less circumscribed and bound ; They led their wild desires to woods and caves, And thought that all but savages were slaves.
Página 101 - I am persuaded, that scarce a poet is to be found, from Homer down to Dry den, who preserved a sound mind in a sound body, and continued practising his profession to the very last, whose latter works are not as replete with the fire of imagination, as those which were produced in his more youthful days.
Página 77 - Unsubstantial, however, as these rules may seem, and difficult as it may be to convey them in writing, they are still seen and felt in the mind of the artist; and he works from them with as much certainty as if they were embodied, as I may say, upon paper.
Página cix - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages.
Página 53 - Michael Angelo's works have a strong, peculiar, and marked character: they seem to proceed from his own mind entirely, and that mind so rich and abundant, that he never needed, or seemed to disdain, to look abroad for foreign help. Raphael's materials are generally borrowed, though the noble structure is his own.
Página xv - It is much to be regretted that he did not live to compose such a Discourse ; for, from the hand of so great and candid an Artist, it could not but have been highly curious and instructive.
Página xviii - I felt my ignorance, and stood abashed. All the indigested notions of painting which I had brought with me from England, where the art was in the lowest state it had ever been in, (it could not indeed be lower,) were to be totally done away, and eradicated from my mind.
Página 101 - We will allow a poet to express his meaning, when his meaning is not well known to himself, with a certain degree of obscurity, as it is one source of the sublime. But when, in plain prose, we gravely talk of courting the Muse in shady bowers; waiting the call and inspiration of genius, finding out where he inhabits, and where he is to be invoked with the greatest success...
Página xxxii - No man had, like him, the faculty of teaching inferior minds the art of thinking. Perhaps other men might have equal knowledge; but few were so communicative. His great pleasure was, to talk to those who looked up to him.