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... qualities , the Author has carefully avoided every thing that might be construed as a personal allu- sion ; he has personified particular defects , not satirised particular persons . Thus the bigotted votary of design and outline , he ...
... qualities , the Author has carefully avoided every thing that might be construed as a personal allu- sion ; he has personified particular defects , not satirised particular persons . Thus the bigotted votary of design and outline , he ...
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... qualities which are required to pro- duce them . True genius will never be discouraged by diffi- culties , and if all those should be deterred from the pursuit who bring to it only the laborious patience of the drudge , society will ...
... qualities which are required to pro- duce them . True genius will never be discouraged by diffi- culties , and if all those should be deterred from the pursuit who bring to it only the laborious patience of the drudge , society will ...
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... qualities of Nature are sometimes perverted and misapplied , in the other they are always op- pressed and degraded . There is an education of habits and circumstances , as well as of Schools and Academies - an education the more ...
... qualities of Nature are sometimes perverted and misapplied , in the other they are always op- pressed and degraded . There is an education of habits and circumstances , as well as of Schools and Academies - an education the more ...
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... qualities of art , which must be considered of an infe rior description . Colouring and chiaro - oscuro , force and execution , are merits more popular with the one , and consequently more studied by the other . The Ideal is subordinate ...
... qualities of art , which must be considered of an infe rior description . Colouring and chiaro - oscuro , force and execution , are merits more popular with the one , and consequently more studied by the other . The Ideal is subordinate ...
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... qualities of both ; the precept appears to be extraordinary , if not absurd , and indicates neither a pure sense of Taste , nor a clear conception of Merit . But In Art , there can be no excellence that is not founded in Fitness ...
... qualities of both ; the precept appears to be extraordinary , if not absurd , and indicates neither a pure sense of Taste , nor a clear conception of Merit . But In Art , there can be no excellence that is not founded in Fitness ...
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Page 38 - As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death...
Page 12 - Nothing is denied to well-directed labour: nothing is to be obtained without it. Not to enter into metaphysical discussions on the nature or essence of genius, I will venture to assert that assiduity unabated by difficulty, and a disposition eagerly directed to the object of its pursuit, will produce effects similar to those which some call the result of natural powers.
Page 78 - Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part. And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.
Page 202 - To conclude, I will venture to repeat in favour of Rubens, what I have before said in regard to the Dutch school — that those who cannot see the extraordinary merit of this great painter, either have a narrow conception of the variety of art, or are led away by the affectation of approving nothing but what comes from the Italian school.
Page 43 - The imputation of novelty is a terrible charge amongst those who judge of men's heads, as they do of their perukes, by the fashion, and can allow none to be right but the received doctrines.
Page 15 - It is of no use to prescribe to those who have no talents ; and those who have talents will find methods for themselves — methods dictated to them by their own particular dispositions, and by the experience of their own particular necessities.
Page 156 - But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness, This who can gratify ? for who can guess...
Page 194 - Such faults may be said to be the ebullitions of genius; but at least he had this merit, that he never was insipid, and whatever passion his works may excite, they will always escape contempt. What I have had under consideration is the...
Page 12 - Guido, and the Caraccis. It is true, there is nothing very captivating in Carlo Maratti ; but this proceeded from a want which cannot be completely supplied; that is, want of strength of parts. In this certainly men are not equal; and a man can bring home wares only in proportion to the capital with which he goes to market. Carlo, by diligence, made the most of what he had...
Page 387 - ... tecta figuris : tum paries nullo crimine pictus erat. sed non immerito velavit aranea fanum et mala desertos occupat herba deos.