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... common senses of life , by learning to feel itself capable of higher aims and nobler enjoyments . In this gra- dual exaltation of human nature , every art contributes its contingent towards the ge- neral supply of mental pleasure ...
... common senses of life , by learning to feel itself capable of higher aims and nobler enjoyments . In this gra- dual exaltation of human nature , every art contributes its contingent towards the ge- neral supply of mental pleasure ...
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... common herd , yet he appears in his latter performances to have lost his way . Instead of pursuing the study of that ideal beauty with which he had so successfully begun , he turned his mind to an injudicious quest of novelty ...
... common herd , yet he appears in his latter performances to have lost his way . Instead of pursuing the study of that ideal beauty with which he had so successfully begun , he turned his mind to an injudicious quest of novelty ...
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... common , and , as I may so call it , mother tongue , every thing grand and com- prehensive must be uttered . I do not mean to prescribe what degree of attention ought to be paid to the minute parts ; this it is hard to settle . We are ...
... common , and , as I may so call it , mother tongue , every thing grand and com- prehensive must be uttered . I do not mean to prescribe what degree of attention ought to be paid to the minute parts ; this it is hard to settle . We are ...
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... common observer of life and nature . When he knows his subject , he will know not only what to describe , but what to omit : and this skill in leaving out , is , in all things , a great part of knowledge and wisdom . The same excellence ...
... common observer of life and nature . When he knows his subject , he will know not only what to describe , but what to omit : and this skill in leaving out , is , in all things , a great part of knowledge and wisdom . The same excellence ...
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... common boast of their authors that all is spun from their own brain , - very rarely any thing that has in the least the air of originality : compositions are generally common - place , uninteresting , without character or expres- sion ...
... common boast of their authors that all is spun from their own brain , - very rarely any thing that has in the least the air of originality : compositions are generally common - place , uninteresting , without character or expres- sion ...
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Page 107 - 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.
Page 221 - I was much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow criticks, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches only to inferior beauties, and who, unable to comprehend the whole, judge only by parts, and from thence determine the merit of extensive works.
Page 171 - That Gainsborough himself considered this peculiarity in his manner, and the power it possesses of exciting surprise, as a beauty in his works, I think may be inferred from the eager desire which we know he always expressed, that his pic-- tures, at the Exhibition, should be seen near, as well as at a distance.
Page 141 - This is a tribute which a painter owes to an architect who composed like a painter, and was defrauded of the due reward of his merit by the wits of his time, who did not understand the principles of composition in poetry better than he, and who knew little or nothing of what he understood perfectly — the general ruling principles of architecture and painting.
Page 120 - It is the lowest style only, of arts, whether of Painting, Poetry, or Musick, that may be said, in the vulgar sense, to be naturally pleasing. The higher efforts of those arts, we know by experience, do not affect minds wholly uncultivated. This refined taste is the consequence of education and habit...
Page 231 - ... minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of Nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other.
Page 424 - Correggio, or any of the great colourists. The effect of his pictures may be not improperly compared to clusters of flowers; all his colours appear as clear and as beautiful : at the same time he has avoided that tawdry effect which one would expect such gay colours to produce: in this respect resembling Barocci more than any other painter.
Page 217 - I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO.* * Unfortunately for mankind, these were the last words pronounced by this great Painter from the Academical chair.
Page 233 - Maratti, and from thence to the very pathos of insipidity to which they are now sunk ; so that there is no need of remarking, that where I mentioned the Italian Painters in opposition to the Dutch, I mean not the moderns, but the heads of the old Roman and Bolognian Schools ; nor did I mean to include in my idea of an Italian Painter, the Venetian School, which may be said to be the Dutch part of the Italian Genius.
Page 317 - The genius of Rubens no where appears to more advantage than here : it is the most carefully finished picture of- all his works. The whole is conducted with the most consummate art ; the composition is bold and uncommon, with circumstances which no other painter had ever before thought of; such as the breaking of the limbs, and the expression of the Magdalen, to which we may add the disposition of the three crosses, which are placed prospectively in an uncommon picturesque manner...