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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... and brother to the celebrated mechanick of that name . I have myself seen Mr. Mudge the clergyman , at Sir Jo- shua's house . He was a learned and vene- He rable old man ; and as I thought , VOL . I. с SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . хххій.
... and brother to the celebrated mechanick of that name . I have myself seen Mr. Mudge the clergyman , at Sir Jo- shua's house . He was a learned and vene- He rable old man ; and as I thought , VOL . I. с SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . хххій.
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... learned from the excellent volume which he has given to the publick ; but how they were delivered , can be known only to those that heard them ; for as he appeared in the pulpit , words will not easily describe him . His delivery ...
... learned from the excellent volume which he has given to the publick ; but how they were delivered , can be known only to those that heard them ; for as he appeared in the pulpit , words will not easily describe him . His delivery ...
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... learned men of his own time * ; in con- sequence of which , and of his cheerful and convivial habits , his table † for above thirty years exhibited an assemblage of all the talents of Great Britain and Ireland ; there being during that ...
... learned men of his own time * ; in con- sequence of which , and of his cheerful and convivial habits , his table † for above thirty years exhibited an assemblage of all the talents of Great Britain and Ireland ; there being during that ...
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... learned and thinking man , and much inclined to philosophize in the spirit of the Platonists , disposed him to this habit . He certainly by that means liberalized in a high degree the theory of his own art ; and if he had been The ...
... learned and thinking man , and much inclined to philosophize in the spirit of the Platonists , disposed him to this habit . He certainly by that means liberalized in a high degree the theory of his own art ; and if he had been The ...
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... learned in science , courted by " the great , caressed by Sovereign Powers , " and celebrated by distinguished Poets * , his Goldsmith , Mason , T. Warton , & c . - The enco- miums on our author in prose are not less numerous . When the ...
... learned in science , courted by " the great , caressed by Sovereign Powers , " and celebrated by distinguished Poets * , his Goldsmith , Mason , T. Warton , & c . - The enco- miums on our author in prose are not less numerous . When the ...
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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...