The Discourses of Sir Joshua ReynoldsJ. Carpenter, 1842 - 279 páginas |
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... taken to discountenance that false and vulgar opinion , that rules are the fetters of genius ; they are fetters only 5 It is one of the innumerable absurdities of pride , that we are never more impatient of direction , than in that part ...
... taken to discountenance that false and vulgar opinion , that rules are the fetters of genius ; they are fetters only 5 It is one of the innumerable absurdities of pride , that we are never more impatient of direction , than in that part ...
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... taken to break through those rules , and , as the Poet expresses it , To snatch a grace beyond the reach of art , may be a subsequent consideration , when the pupils become masters themselves . It is then , when their genius has ...
... taken to break through those rules , and , as the Poet expresses it , To snatch a grace beyond the reach of art , may be a subsequent consideration , when the pupils become masters themselves . It is then , when their genius has ...
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... taken the shadow for the substance ; and make the mechanical felicity the chief excellence of the art , which is only an orna- ment , and of the merit of which few but painters themselves are judges . This seems to me to be one of the ...
... taken the shadow for the substance ; and make the mechanical felicity the chief excellence of the art , which is only an orna- ment , and of the merit of which few but painters themselves are judges . This seems to me to be one of the ...
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... taken general surveys , but to have examined particulars with minute inspection . But the most valu- able parts of his performance are those which retired study and native wit cannot supply . He that makes a book from books may be ...
... taken general surveys , but to have examined particulars with minute inspection . But the most valu- able parts of his performance are those which retired study and native wit cannot supply . He that makes a book from books may be ...
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... taken from the subject in hand : the general forms will be found not only to indicate a larger and richer style of drawing , but the individual parts will appear to possess a more beautiful choice , and greater proportions compared with ...
... taken from the subject in hand : the general forms will be found not only to indicate a larger and richer style of drawing , but the individual parts will appear to possess a more beautiful choice , and greater proportions compared with ...
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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.