The Students' Cabinet Library of Useful Tracts, Volum 5T. Clark., 1839 |
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... ancients , as we learn from many passages in the Greek and Latin classics , were acquainted with convex lenses , but did not apply them to the construction of magnifying glasses or telescopes . They made use of seal - rings with ...
... ancients , as we learn from many passages in the Greek and Latin classics , were acquainted with convex lenses , but did not apply them to the construction of magnifying glasses or telescopes . They made use of seal - rings with ...
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... ancient world . The pages are infinite in that great volume , which was written by the hand divine , and they are to be gradually turned , perused , and announced , to benefited and grateful generations , by genius and patience ; and ...
... ancient world . The pages are infinite in that great volume , which was written by the hand divine , and they are to be gradually turned , perused , and announced , to benefited and grateful generations , by genius and patience ; and ...
Side 34
... ancient monarchies , the same of theirs . In passing from one of these pe- riods to another , prodigious strides are often made ; and the vanity of the present age is apt to flatter itself , that it has climbed to the very summit of ...
... ancient monarchies , the same of theirs . In passing from one of these pe- riods to another , prodigious strides are often made ; and the vanity of the present age is apt to flatter itself , that it has climbed to the very summit of ...
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... ancients . Although Pythagoras , one of the earliest Greek philosophers , by a fortunate exercise of sagacity , conceived the elements of the Co- pernican system , yet we find no general and practical improvement resulting from it . It ...
... ancients . Although Pythagoras , one of the earliest Greek philosophers , by a fortunate exercise of sagacity , conceived the elements of the Co- pernican system , yet we find no general and practical improvement resulting from it . It ...
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... author , his native coun- try , and the time when he lived , are known only by very uncertain tradition ; but though all the intelligence of ancient and modern times , and in the most 62 62 IMPORTANCE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE ,
... author , his native coun- try , and the time when he lived , are known only by very uncertain tradition ; but though all the intelligence of ancient and modern times , and in the most 62 62 IMPORTANCE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE ,
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acquired admiration advantage Albert Durer ancient appear artist attention beauty called Carlo Maratti character Claude Lorraine colours common composition considered Correggio cultivation defects degree dignity DISCOURSE discovery drapery drawing dress effect employed endeavour equal excellence expression figure Gainsborough genius give grace grandeur greatest habit highest idea imagination imitation improvement industry instance invention justly kind knowledge labour learned light living Lodovico Caracci manner Masaccio master means mechanical men's party ment method Michael Angelo mind modern nature never object observed opinion ornaments painter painting passions Paul Veronese peculiar Pellegrino Tibaldi perfect perhaps picture Pietro Perugino poetry possessed Poussin practice principles produced pursuit racter Raffaelle reason Rembrandt Royal Academy Rubens rules sculpture Sergius Paulus simplicity student style suppose taste thing thought tion Titian true truth ture variety Venetian Venetian school whole wish
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Side 23 - If you have great talents, industry will improve them ; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour : nothing is to be obtained without it.
Side 35 - ... like the philosopher, will consider nature in the abstract, and represent in every one of his figures the character of its species.
Side 61 - Inspiration ; his ideas are vast and sublime ; his people are a superior order of beings ; there is nothing about them, nothing in the air of their actions, or their attitudes, or the style and cast of their limbs or features, that reminds us of their belonging to our own species.
Side 205 - I am well aware how much I lay myself open to the censure and ridicule of the academical professors of other nations, in preferring the humble attempts of Gainsborough to the works of those regular graduates in the great historical style. But we have the sanction of all mankind in preferring genius in a lower rank of art, to feebleness and insipidity in the highest.
Side 24 - I cannot help imagining that I see a promising young painter, equally vigilant, whether at home, or abroad, in the streets, or in the fields. Every object that presents itself, is to him a lesson. He regards all Nature with a view to his profession ; and combines her beauties, or corrects her defects. He examines the countenance of men under the influence of passion ; and often catches the most pleasing hints from subjects of turbulence or deformity. Even bad pictures themselves supply him with useful...
Side 180 - The habit of contemplating and brooding over the ideas of great geniuses, till you find yourself warmed by the contact, is the true method of forming an artist-like mind ; it is impossible, in the presence of those great men, to think, or invent, in a mean manner ; a state of mind is acquired that receives those ideas only which relish of grandeur and simplicity.
Side 65 - Like Polidoro, he studied the ancients so much, that he acquired a habit of thinking in their way, and seemed to know perfectly the actions and gestures they would use on every occasion.
Side 200 - Landscape ; and it is from hence, in a great degree, that, in the buildings of Vanbrugh, who was a Poet as well as an Architect, there is a greater display of imagination, than we shall find perhaps in any other...
Side 53 - Thus if a portrait-painter is desirous to raise and improve his subject, he has no other means than by approaching it to a general idea. He leaves out all the minute breaks and peculiarities in the face, and changes the dress from a temporary fashion to one more permanent, which has annexed to it no ideas of meanness from its being familiar to us.
Side 6 - An Institution like this has often been recommended upon considerations merely mercantile ; but an Academy, founded upon such principles, can never effect even its own narrow purposes. If it has an origin no higher, no taste can ever be formed in manufactures ; but if the higher Arts of Design flourish, these inferior ends will be answered of course.