An Inquiry Into the Beauties of Painting: And Into the Merits of the Most Celebrated Painters, Ancient and ModernR. and J. Dodsley, 1761 - 200 oldal |
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v. oldal
... ideas of this art . To account for this , and to point out thofe errors which have been the causes of it , is the defign of this Preface ; after which , I propofe , by the following work , to free this fubject from its fuppofed A 3 ...
... ideas of this art . To account for this , and to point out thofe errors which have been the causes of it , is the defign of this Preface ; after which , I propofe , by the following work , to free this fubject from its fuppofed A 3 ...
vii. oldal
... ideas which they excite , would in the end turn to a much better ac- count . THE fecond error ; is , the habit of eftimating pictures by the general re- putation of the painters ; a rule , of all others , the moft productive of igno ...
... ideas which they excite , would in the end turn to a much better ac- count . THE fecond error ; is , the habit of eftimating pictures by the general re- putation of the painters ; a rule , of all others , the moft productive of igno ...
x. oldal
... excellent pictures ; and fome again are feldom , fuccefsful , except when they work on the ideas of others : Andrea Sacchi is an example of the firft , and Domi- nichino nichino of the second . But I am stray- ing * PREFA C E.
... excellent pictures ; and fome again are feldom , fuccefsful , except when they work on the ideas of others : Andrea Sacchi is an example of the firft , and Domi- nichino nichino of the second . But I am stray- ing * PREFA C E.
2. oldal
... ideas with the paintings of the mo- derns , we shall enlarge our conceptions , and improve our knowledge of the art itself . B. THIS profpect which you have opened upon me , gives me a fingular pleasure ; for , after having read , with ...
... ideas with the paintings of the mo- derns , we shall enlarge our conceptions , and improve our knowledge of the art itself . B. THIS profpect which you have opened upon me , gives me a fingular pleasure ; for , after having read , with ...
3. oldal
... ideas , however just , are so scattered through the different parts of their works , that they are not easily reducible to any fyftem . In the expofition of an art , as in the diftribu- tion of a picture , a loose difperfion of the ...
... ideas , however just , are so scattered through the different parts of their works , that they are not easily reducible to any fyftem . In the expofition of an art , as in the diftribu- tion of a picture , a loose difperfion of the ...
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41. oldal - And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody?
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15. oldal - The infernal Serpent ! he it was, whose guile, Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven...
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23. oldal - Of heav'nly pow'rs were touch'd with human fate! But go! thy flight no longer I detain — Go! seek thy promis'd kingdom through the main!
55. oldal - The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not; the flat sea shines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor 'Of some old temple wide.
77. oldal - You may shape, Amintor, Causes to cozen the whole world withal, And yourself too ; but 'tis not like a friend To hide your soul from me-. 'Tis not your nature To be thus idle : I have seen you stand As you were blasted 'midst of all your mirth ; Call thrice aloud, and then start, feigning joy So coldly ! — World, what do I here ? a friend Is nothing.
123. oldal - In thefe principles, and in the examples by which they have been fupported, we fee clearly the reafon why every enlightened age has had, and muft continue to have, its original Writers. We have no right, therefore, to complain that nature is always the fame, or that the fources of novelty have been exhaufted. It is in Poetry as in Philofophy, new relations are ftruck out, new influences difcovered, and every fuperior genius moves in a world of his own.