The Complete Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal Academy: With an Original Memoir, and Anecdotes of the Author : in Three VolumesT. M'Lean, 1824 |
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... become defects . Simplicity ; its excess disagreeable.- Rules not to be always observed in their literal sense : sufficient to preserve the spirit of the law . -Observations on the Prize Pictures . • 189 MEMOIRS OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ...
... become defects . Simplicity ; its excess disagreeable.- Rules not to be always observed in their literal sense : sufficient to preserve the spirit of the law . -Observations on the Prize Pictures . • 189 MEMOIRS OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ...
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... become a pupil of his countryman , Thomas Hudson , who then stood at the head of his profession as a portrait painter . Accordingly , on the fourteenth of October , 1741 , young Reynolds entered London , and on the eighteenth of the ...
... become a pupil of his countryman , Thomas Hudson , who then stood at the head of his profession as a portrait painter . Accordingly , on the fourteenth of October , 1741 , young Reynolds entered London , and on the eighteenth of the ...
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... become as a little child . Notwithstanding my disappointment , I proceeded to copy some of those excellent works . I viewed them again and again ; I even affected to feel their merit , and to admire them more than I really did . In a ...
... become as a little child . Notwithstanding my disappointment , I proceeded to copy some of those excellent works . I viewed them again and again ; I even affected to feel their merit , and to admire them more than I really did . In a ...
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... become a pupil of Battoni . Though the advice was friendly , yet , as soon as our traveller had an opportunity of judging for himself , he neglected to follow it , wisely preferring the silent instructions of the great mas- ters of ...
... become a pupil of Battoni . Though the advice was friendly , yet , as soon as our traveller had an opportunity of judging for himself , he neglected to follow it , wisely preferring the silent instructions of the great mas- ters of ...
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... becomes a man of your eminence and character , Sir Joshua , to condescend to be a mean flatterer , or to wish to degrade so high a genius as Voltaire before so mean a writer as Dr. Beattie ; for Dr. Beattie , and his book to- gether ...
... becomes a man of your eminence and character , Sir Joshua , to condescend to be a mean flatterer , or to wish to degrade so high a genius as Voltaire before so mean a writer as Dr. Beattie ; for Dr. Beattie , and his book to- gether ...
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Página l - 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 : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff.
Página 48 - 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 lxxvii - His talents of every kind — powerful from nature, and not meanly cultivated by...
Página xix - Notwithstanding my disappointment, I proceeded to copy some of those excellent works. I viewed them again and again ; I even affected to feel their merit, and to admire them, more than I really did.
Página 47 - By this means, he acquires a just idea of beautiful forms; he corrects Nature by herself, her imperfect state by her more perfect. His eye being enabled to distinguish the accidental deficiencies, excrescences, and deformities of things, from their general figures, he makes out an abstract idea of their forms more perfect than any one original...
Página 34 - 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 xli - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle. Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed...
Página 79 - ... though his style is not so pure as that of many other of the Italian schools, yet there is a sort of senatorial dignity about him, which, however awkward in his imitators, seems to become him exceedingly. His portraits alone, from the nobleness and simplicity of character which he always gave them, will entitle him to the greatest respect, as he undoubtedly stands in the first rank in this branch of the art.
Página 51 - There is, likewise, a kind of symmetry, or proportion, which may properly be said to belong to deformity. A figure lean or corpulent, tall or short, though deviating from beauty, may still have a certain union of the various parts, which may contribute to make them on the whole not unpleasing.
Página 190 - What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have. There are, however, other intellectual qualities and dispositions which the Painter can satisfy and affect as powerfully as the poet: among those we may reckon our love of novelty, variety, and contrast; these qualities, on examination, will be found to refer to a certain activity and restlessness which...