The Discourses of Sir Joshua ReynoldsJames Carpenter, 1824 - 279 страници |
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... instance of return to scrupulous labour , after the mind has been debauched and deceived by this fallacious mastery . By this useless industry they are excluded from all power of advanc- ing in real excellence . Whilst boys , they are ...
... instance of return to scrupulous labour , after the mind has been debauched and deceived by this fallacious mastery . By this useless industry they are excluded from all power of advanc- ing in real excellence . Whilst boys , they are ...
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... instance , the beauty of the Hercules is one , of the Gla- diator another , of the Apollo another ; which makes so many different ideas of beauty . It is true , indeed , that these figures are each perfect in their kind , though of ...
... instance , the beauty of the Hercules is one , of the Gla- diator another , of the Apollo another ; which makes so many different ideas of beauty . It is true , indeed , that these figures are each perfect in their kind , though of ...
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... instances , in which vanity or caprice have contrived to distort and disfigure the human form ; your own recol- lection will add to these a thousand more of ill - understood methods , which have been practised to disguise Nature among ...
... instances , in which vanity or caprice have contrived to distort and disfigure the human form ; your own recol- lection will add to these a thousand more of ill - understood methods , which have been practised to disguise Nature among ...
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... instance the Ancients had an easier task than the Moderns . They had , probably , little or nothing to unlearn , as their manners were nearly approaching to this desirable simplicity ; while the modern Artist , before he can see the ...
... instance the Ancients had an easier task than the Moderns . They had , probably , little or nothing to unlearn , as their manners were nearly approaching to this desirable simplicity ; while the modern Artist , before he can see the ...
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... instance of heroic action , or heroic suf- fering . There must be something either in the action , or in the object , in which men are universally concerned , and which powerfully strikes upon the public sympathy . Strictly speaking ...
... instance of heroic action , or heroic suf- fering . There must be something either in the action , or in the object , in which men are universally concerned , and which powerfully strikes upon the public sympathy . Strictly speaking ...
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Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.