The Discourses of Sir Joshua ReynoldsJames Carpenter, 1824 - 279 páginas |
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... things , which naturally makes elegance and refinement the last effect of opulence and power . ' An Institution like this has often been recommended upon considera- tions merely mercantile ; but an Academy , founded upon such principles ...
... things , which naturally makes elegance and refinement the last effect of opulence and power . ' An Institution like this has often been recommended upon considera- tions merely mercantile ; but an Academy , founded upon such principles ...
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... thing excellent , and accordingly we perceive at all times , as the Art declined , that mediocre painters were the most dexterous , ―expert at gra- tifying the eye ; we look in vain in their works for a happy union of skill and thought ...
... thing excellent , and accordingly we perceive at all times , as the Art declined , that mediocre painters were the most dexterous , ―expert at gra- tifying the eye ; we look in vain in their works for a happy union of skill and thought ...
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... thing more to the consideration of the Visitors , which appears to me a matter of very great consequence , and the omission of which I think a principal defect in the method of education pursued in all the Academies I have ever visited ...
... thing more to the consideration of the Visitors , which appears to me a matter of very great consequence , and the omission of which I think a principal defect in the method of education pursued in all the Academies I have ever visited ...
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... thing from their predecessors , it is only in irregular sallies and trifling conceits . The more extensive ... things . The works of those who profess an art , whose essence is imitation , must needs be stamped with a close resemblance ...
... thing from their predecessors , it is only in irregular sallies and trifling conceits . The more extensive ... things . The works of those who profess an art , whose essence is imitation , must needs be stamped with a close resemblance ...
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... thing of their own , who have spent much of their time in making finished copies , is well known to all who are conversant with our Art . To suppose that the complication of powers and variety of ideas necessary to that mind which ...
... thing of their own , who have spent much of their time in making finished copies , is well known to all who are conversant with our Art . To suppose that the complication of powers and variety of ideas necessary to that mind which ...
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Página 161 - And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed; Whence true authority in men; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him...
Página 220 - Or ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were ; And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before ; And all their friends and native home forget, To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.
Página 232 - He the best player!" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 42 - 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 96 - 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 32 - 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 233 - Shakespeare that he assumes as an unquestionable principle a position which, while his breath is forming it into words, his understanding pronounces to be false. It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality, that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.
Página 81 - Mankind, who by the mere Strength of natural Parts, and without any Assistance of Art or Learning, have produced Works that were the Delight of their own Times and the Wonder of Posterity.
Página 33 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Página 40 - I have here offered, than that music, architecture, and painting, as well as poetry and oratory, are to deduce their laws and rules from the general sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves ; or, in other words, the taste is not to conform to the art, but the art to the taste.