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... paint- ing , and eloquence ; but an excellent perform- er in all these arts is very seldom found ; or rather is not to be looked for . A universal genius , or one who is equally and indifferently inclined towards several different ...
... paint- ing , and eloquence ; but an excellent perform- er in all these arts is very seldom found ; or rather is not to be looked for . A universal genius , or one who is equally and indifferently inclined towards several different ...
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... paint- ing , and eloquence ; but an excellent perform- er in all these arts is very seldom found ; or rather is not to be looked for . A universal genius , or one who is equally and indifferently inclined towards several different ...
... paint- ing , and eloquence ; but an excellent perform- er in all these arts is very seldom found ; or rather is not to be looked for . A universal genius , or one who is equally and indifferently inclined towards several different ...
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... painting and with sculpture , and in many respects prefer it justly before them . But we must distinguish between imitation and description . Words have no natural resemblance of the ideas or objects which they signify , but a statue or ...
... painting and with sculpture , and in many respects prefer it justly before them . But we must distinguish between imitation and description . Words have no natural resemblance of the ideas or objects which they signify , but a statue or ...
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... paint by speech , the objects , which they named , in a manner more or less complete , according as it was in the power of the human voice to effect this imitation . Wherever objects were to be named , in which sound Origin and Progress ...
... paint by speech , the objects , which they named , in a manner more or less complete , according as it was in the power of the human voice to effect this imitation . Wherever objects were to be named , in which sound Origin and Progress ...
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... paint the emotion or passion , which they felt , by allud . ing to those sensible objects which had most connection with it , and which could render it in some degree visible to others . But it was not necessity alone , that gave rise ...
... paint the emotion or passion , which they felt , by allud . ing to those sensible objects which had most connection with it , and which could render it in some degree visible to others . But it was not necessity alone , that gave rise ...
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