The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ...: Containing His Discourses, Papers in the Idler, the Journal of a Tour Through Flanders and Holland, and Also His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting, Volumen1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1819 |
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... death . Happening to meet with the Life of Savage in Devon- shire , which , though published some years before , was then new to him , he began to read it ( as Mr. Boswell has informed us ) " while he was standing with his arm lean- ing ...
... death . Happening to meet with the Life of Savage in Devon- shire , which , though published some years before , was then new to him , he began to read it ( as Mr. Boswell has informed us ) " while he was standing with his arm lean- ing ...
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... - son at once perceived that Reynolds had the habit of thinking for himself . The ladies were regretting the death of a friend , to * In Newport - street . whom they owed great obligations ; upon which Reynolds observed xxvi SOME ACCOUNT ...
... - son at once perceived that Reynolds had the habit of thinking for himself . The ladies were regretting the death of a friend , to * In Newport - street . whom they owed great obligations ; upon which Reynolds observed xxvi SOME ACCOUNT ...
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... Charlotte is married to Dean Lewis , and has three children . " Ibid . p . 341. The elder of these ladies visited him not long before his death . their excellence and their value consisted in being the observations xxviii SOME ACCOUNT OF.
... Charlotte is married to Dean Lewis , and has three children . " Ibid . p . 341. The elder of these ladies visited him not long before his death . their excellence and their value consisted in being the observations xxviii SOME ACCOUNT OF.
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... death , which happened a few months after the first edition of these works , would at any time have been a grievous loss to his country , but at the present distressful and momentous period is an irreparable calamity to the whole ...
... death , which happened a few months after the first edition of these works , would at any time have been a grievous loss to his country , but at the present distressful and momentous period is an irreparable calamity to the whole ...
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... DEATHS ) in the LONDON CHROnicle . 66 " The Reverend Mr. Zachariah Mudge , Prebendary of Exeter , and Vicar of St. Andrew's in Plymouth ; a man equally eminent for his virtues and abilities , and at once beloved as a companion , and ...
... DEATHS ) in the LONDON CHROnicle . 66 " The Reverend Mr. Zachariah Mudge , Prebendary of Exeter , and Vicar of St. Andrew's in Plymouth ; a man equally eminent for his virtues and abilities , and at once beloved as a companion , and ...
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Página 59 - 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. Such personages I think would please nobody, but the painter that made them.
Página 154 - 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 xxix - their excellence and their value consisted in being the observations of a strong mind operating upon life ; and in consequence you find there what you seldom find in other books.
Página xiii - 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 77 - THIT value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labour employed in it, or the mental pleasure produced by it. As this principle is observed or neglected, our profession becomes either a liberal art, or a mechanical trade.
Página cxxii - ... his native humility, modesty, and candour never forsook him, even on surprise or provocation ; nor was the least degree of arrogance or assumption visible to the most scrutinizing eye in any part of his conduct or discourse.
Página 155 - The mind is but a barren soil; a soil V which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.
Página 42 - 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 96 - And though in this respect the Venetians must be allowed extraordinary skill, yet even that skill, as they have employed it, will but ill correspond with the great style. Their colouring is not only too brilliant, but, I will venture to say, too harmonious, to produce that solidity, steadiness, and simplicity of effect, which heroic subjects require, and which simple or grave colours only can give to a work.
Página 33 - However, as the practice of copying is not entirely to be excluded, since the mechanical practice of painting is learned in some measure by it, let those choice parts only be selected which have recommended the work to notice. If its excellence...