The Students' Cabinet Library of Useful Tracts, Volum 5T. Clark., 1839 |
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Side 6
... greatest discoveries and inventions have been either the production of such self- educated men , or have been struck out by accident . There certainly is some truth in this . So long as no regular system of scientific education for the ...
... greatest discoveries and inventions have been either the production of such self- educated men , or have been struck out by accident . There certainly is some truth in this . So long as no regular system of scientific education for the ...
Side 20
... greatest request ; where the labour and skill of the human hands , and every kind of talent and acquisition , possess a rela- tive importance elsewhere unknown , -in other words , where an industrious man is of the greatest consequence ...
... greatest request ; where the labour and skill of the human hands , and every kind of talent and acquisition , possess a rela- tive importance elsewhere unknown , -in other words , where an industrious man is of the greatest consequence ...
Side 23
... greatest success in the way for which Providence has fitted them . It is only in this manner that they can make themselves highly respect- ed in society , and secure to themselves the largest share of those blessings , which are the ...
... greatest success in the way for which Providence has fitted them . It is only in this manner that they can make themselves highly respect- ed in society , and secure to themselves the largest share of those blessings , which are the ...
Side 40
... greatest part of the intellect , innate in our race , perishes undeveloped and unknown . When an acorn falls upon an unfavourable spot , and decays there , we know the extent of the loss ; -it is that of a tree , like the one from which ...
... greatest part of the intellect , innate in our race , perishes undeveloped and unknown . When an acorn falls upon an unfavourable spot , and decays there , we know the extent of the loss ; -it is that of a tree , like the one from which ...
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... greatest amount and variety of work are done ; so that the im- provement , which takes place in the condition of man , consists , not in diminishing the amount of labour per- formed , but in enabling men to work more , or more ...
... greatest amount and variety of work are done ; so that the im- provement , which takes place in the condition of man , consists , not in diminishing the amount of labour per- formed , but in enabling men to work more , or more ...
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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.