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" ... painting is, to perform much of the effect of discourse and books, and, in many instances, more speedily and with more reality. To consider a picture aright, is to read it ; but taking into account the beauty with which the eye is all the time entertained,... "
Two Discourses: I. An Essay on the Whole Art of Criticism, as it Relates to ... - Page 39
by Jonathan Richardson - 1719 - 454 pages
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The Works of Jonathan Richardson: Containing I. The Theory of Painting. II ...

Jonathan Richardson - Engraving - 1792 - 334 pages
...of the beauty with which the eye is all the while entertained, whether of colours, or figures, it is not only to read a book, and that finely printed, and well bound, but as if a concert of mufic were heard at the fame time : you have at once an intelleftual, and a fenfual pleafure....
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General View of the Fine Arts, Critical and Historical

Art - 1851 - 490 pages
...the beauty with which the eye is all the time entertained, (whether of colour or composition,) it is not only to read a book, and that finely printed and well bound, but as if ' a concert of music were heard at the same time. You have, at once an intellectual and a sensual pleasure....
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A General View of the Fine Arts: Critical and Historical, with an Introduction

Daniel Huntington - Art - 1838 - 492 pages
...the beauty with which the eye is all the time entertained, (whether of colour or composition,) it is not only to read a book, and that finely printed and well bound, but as if a concert of music were heard at the same time. You have at once an intellectual and a sensual pleasure....
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Manual of the Fine Arts: Critical and Historical

Art - 1875 - 486 pages
...the beauty with which the eye is all the time entertained, (whether of colour or composition,) it is not only to read a book, and that finely printed and well bound, but as if a concert of music were heard at the same time. You have at once an intellectual and a sensual pleasure....
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Manual of the Fine Arts, Critical and Historical: With an Introduction by D ...

Architecture - 1879 - 512 pages
...the beauty with which the eye is all the time entertained, (whether of colour or composition,) it is not only to read a book, and that finely printed and well bound, but as if a concert of music were heard at the same time. You have at wee an intellectual and a sensual pleasure....
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Manual of the Fine Arts, Critical and Historical: With an Introduction by D ...

Miss Ludlow - Art - 1879 - 494 pages
...beauty with which the eye is all the time entertained, (whether of colour or composition,) it is net only to read a book, and that finely printed and well bound, but as if a concert of music were heard at the same time. You have at vice an intellectual and a sensual pleasure....
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Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder

Elizabeth K. Helsinger - Art criticism - 1982 - 384 pages
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Time, Literature and the Arts: Essays in Honor of Samuel L. Macey

Samuel L. Macey - Arts - 1994 - 224 pages
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