The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Kt. Late President of the Royal Academy;: Containing His Discourses, Papers in the Idler, the Journal of a Tour Through Flanders and Holland, and Also His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting. : Printed from the Author's Revised Copies, with His Last Corrections and Additions. To which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of the Author, by Edmond Malone, Esq. One of His Executors..T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, Booksellers to the Royal Academy., 1819 - 3 sider |
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Side x
... means he was led to deviate from the tameness and insipidity of his master , and to form a manner of his own . While in this career , the first of his per- formances which brought him into any con- siderable notice , was the portrait of ...
... means he was led to deviate from the tameness and insipidity of his master , and to form a manner of his own . While in this career , the first of his per- formances which brought him into any con- siderable notice , was the portrait of ...
Side xvi
... really been what I ex- pected , they would have contained beauties superficial and alluring , but by no means such as would have entitled them to the great reputation which they have so long and so justly xvi SOME ACCOUNT OF.
... really been what I ex- pected , they would have contained beauties superficial and alluring , but by no means such as would have entitled them to the great reputation which they have so long and so justly xvi SOME ACCOUNT OF.
Side xx
... but these I have no means chael , the Archangel , slaying the Dragon , after Guido ; and the School of Athens , from Raffaelle ; both masterly performances . of investigating . The method which he fol- lowed when XX SOME ACCOUNT OF.
... but these I have no means chael , the Archangel , slaying the Dragon , after Guido ; and the School of Athens , from Raffaelle ; both masterly performances . of investigating . The method which he fol- lowed when XX SOME ACCOUNT OF.
Side xxix
... be imputed , in a great measure , to the education which I may be said to have had under Dr. Johnson . I be to the credit of these Discourses , if I do not mean to say , though it certainly would SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . xxix.
... be imputed , in a great measure , to the education which I may be said to have had under Dr. Johnson . I be to the credit of these Discourses , if I do not mean to say , though it certainly would SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . xxix.
Side xxxviii
... means of attracting the publick attention . In this speculation they were not disappointed ; and having thus secured a firmer footing , they afterwards ( Jan. 26. 1765 , ) obtained a royal charter of incorporation . * Not long after ...
... means of attracting the publick attention . In this speculation they were not disappointed ; and having thus secured a firmer footing , they afterwards ( Jan. 26. 1765 , ) obtained a royal charter of incorporation . * Not long after ...
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Side xxix - their excellence and their value consisted in being the observations of a strong mind operating upon life ; and in consequence you find there what you seldom find in other books.
Side 245 - Homer; who, from the midst of battles and horrours, relieves and refreshes the mind of the reader, by introducing some quiet rural image, or picture of familiar domestic life. The writers of every age and country, where taste has begun to decline, paint and adorn every object they touch; are always on the stretch; never deviate or sink a moment from the pompous and the brilliant. Lucan...
Side 51 - By this means, he acquires a just idea of beautiful forms; he corrects Nature by herself, her imperfect state by her more perfect. His eye being enabled to distinguish the accidental deficiencies, excrescences, and deformities of things, from their general figures, he makes out an abstract idea of their forms more perfect than any one original...
Side 48 - It is not easy to define in what this great style consists ; nor to describe, by words, the proper means of acquiring it, if the mind of the student should be at all capable of such an acquisition. Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Side cxviii - ... his native humility, modesty, and candour never forsook him, even on surprise or provocation ; nor was the least degree of arrogance or assumption visible to the most scrutinizing eye in any part of his conduct or discourse.
Side 36 - You must have no dependence on your own genius. 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 clxxii - 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.
Side 56 - There is, likewise, a kind of symmetry, or proportion, which may properly be said to belong to deformity. A figure lean or corpulent, tall or short, though deviating from beauty, may still have a certain union of the various parts, which may contribute to make them on the whole not unpleasing.
Side cxxvi - In the window of his mother's apartment lay Spenser's Fairy Queen ; in which he very early took delight to read, till by feeling the charms of verse, he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called Genius. The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular...
Side 276 - A great part of the beauty of the celebrated description of Eve in Milton's Paradise Lost, consists in using only general indistinct expressions, every reader making out the detail according to his own particular imagination — his own idea of Beauty, grace, expression, dignity, or loveliness : but a painter, when he represents Eve on a canvas, is obliged to give a determined form, and his own idea of beauty distinctly expressed.