 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 332 oldal
...aphorism, with a slight variation : — " A serpent, ere he comes to be a dragon, Must eat a bat. " Though I have been led on to a longer digression respecting...of life. He is, indeed, a signal instance of what well-directed diligence will do in a short time ; he lived but twenty-seven years ; yet in that short... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 oldal
...aphofism, with a slight variation : — " A serpent, ere he comes to be a dragon, Must eat a bat." Though I have been led on to a longer digression respecting...of life. He is, indeed, a signal instance of what well-directed diligence will do in a short time ; he lived but twenty-seven years ; yet in that short... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 538 oldal
...arts before his time, when skill in drawing was so little understood, that the best of the painters could not even foreshorten the foot, but every figure...concerns of life. He is indeed a signal instance of what -well-directed diligence will do in a short time : he lived but twenty-seven years ; yet in that short... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 536 oldal
...eminent degree ; he was as much distinguished among his contemporaries for his diligence and industry, at he was for the natural faculties of his mind. We are...concerns of life. He is indeed a signal instance of what well-directed difigence will do in a short time : he lived but twenty-seven years ; yet in that short... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 544 oldal
...distinguished among his contemporaries for his diligence and industry, as be was for the natural facultice of his mind. We are told that his whole attention...concerns of life. He is indeed a signal instance of what well-directed diligence will do in a short time : he lived but twenty-seven years ; yet in that short... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1905 - 468 oldal
...as if he would have been nothing without them. for drapery had, from the hardness and smalhiess ot the folds, too much the appearance of cords clinging...concerns of life. He is indeed a signal instance of what well-directed diligence will do in a short time : he lived but twentyseven years, yet in that short... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1905 - 564 oldal
...whole attention was absorbed in the pursuit of his art, and that he acquired the name of Masaccio,1 from his total disregard to his dress, his person...of life. He is, indeed, a signal instance of what welldirected diligence will do in a short time ; he lived but twenty-seven years; yet in that short... | |
 | 1839 - 348 oldal
...as he was for the natural faculties of his mind. We are told that his whole attention was ahsorbed in the pursuit of his art, and that he acquired the...concerns of life. He is indeed a signal instance of what well-directed diligence will do in a short time ; he lived but twentyseven years ; yet in that short... | |
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Though I have been led on to a longer digression respecting this great Painter than I intended, yet I cannot avoid mentioning another excellence which he possessed in a very eminent degree ; he was as much distinguished among his contemporaries for his... 
