The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Knight ... Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; Printed from His Revised Copies (with His Last Corrections.) In Three Volumes: to which is Prefixed An Accpount of the Life and Writings of the Author, Volume 3T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1801 - Art |
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... artist also will be proud to emulate that simplicity of style , which this work has for more than a century recommended , and which , having only very lately got the better of fluttering drapery and theatrical attitude , is become one ...
... artist also will be proud to emulate that simplicity of style , which this work has for more than a century recommended , and which , having only very lately got the better of fluttering drapery and theatrical attitude , is become one ...
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... Artist's hand confine , Whom practice gives to strike the free design ; Or banish Fancy from her fairy plains , Or fetter Genius in didactick chains : No , ' tis their liberal purpose to convey That scientifick skill which wins its way ...
... Artist's hand confine , Whom practice gives to strike the free design ; Or banish Fancy from her fairy plains , Or fetter Genius in didactick chains : No , ' tis their liberal purpose to convey That scientifick skill which wins its way ...
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... Artist's hand : Then , bold INVENTION , all the powers diffuse , Of all thy sisters thou the noblest Muse : Thee every art , thee every grace inspires , Thee Phoebus fills with all his brightest fires . Choose such judicious force of ...
... Artist's hand : Then , bold INVENTION , all the powers diffuse , Of all thy sisters thou the noblest Muse : Thee every art , thee every grace inspires , Thee Phoebus fills with all his brightest fires . Choose such judicious force of ...
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... Artists used ) fair Venice claims our praise : 455 Cum nigro antevenit propiùs ; fugit absq ; remotum ; Purum autem nigrum antrorsum venit usque pro- pinquum . 332 Lux fucata suo tingit miscetque colore Corpora , sicque suo , per quem ...
... Artists used ) fair Venice claims our praise : 455 Cum nigro antevenit propiùs ; fugit absq ; remotum ; Purum autem nigrum antrorsum venit usque pro- pinquum . 332 Lux fucata suo tingit miscetque colore Corpora , sicque suo , per quem ...
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... Artists , bound by their instinctive law , 635 In all their works their own resemblance draw : Learn then " to know thyself ; " that precept sage Shall best allay luxuriant Fancy's rage ; Shall point how far indulgent Genius deigns To ...
... Artists , bound by their instinctive law , 635 In all their works their own resemblance draw : Learn then " to know thyself ; " that precept sage Shall best allay luxuriant Fancy's rage ; Shall point how far indulgent Genius deigns To ...
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