 must be the fate of those who do not join an inflexible labour to aa habitual meditation ? Let the artist who despises or neglects these important means, make no pretension to the recompense due to active and sensible minds. There is no reputation for...  The Death of Abel: In Five Books - Page 251by Salomon Gessner - 1797 - 275 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Salomon Gessner - Art criticism - 1776 - 186 pages
...minds. There is no reputation for him to whom a tafte for his art does not become his ruling paffion, to whom the hours he employs in its cultivation are not the mod delicious of his life, to whom the ftudy of it does not conftitute his real exiftence, and his... | |
 | Alexander Jamleson - 1821 - 456 pages
...Let the artist who despises or neglects these important means, make no pretension to the recompense due to active and sensible minds. There is no reputation...him whose watchings, or dreams in the night, are not occupied with the ideas of his art; who in the morning does not fly with fresh transport to his painting-room.... | |
 | John Imison - Art - 1822 - 488 pages
...Let the artist who despises or neglects these important means make no pretension to the recompense due to active and sensible minds. There is no reputation...him whose watchings, or dreams in the night, are not occupied with the ideas of his art ; who in the morning does not fly with fresh transport to his painting-room.... | |
 | John Gould - Art - 1835 - 430 pages
...make no pretension to the recompense due to active and sensible minds. There is no reputation for him to whom the hours he employs in its cultivation are...him whose watchings, or dreams in the night, are not occupied with the ideas of his art ; who in the morning does not fly with fresh transport to his painting-room.... | |
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