 | Edmund Burke - 1772
...perfect. As for the varions departments of the art, which do not prefume to make fuch high pretenfions; they are many ; none of them are without their merit, though none enter into competition wkh this great univeffal presiding idea of the art. The painters who have applied themfelves more particularly... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801
...perfect. As for the various departments of painting, which do not presume to make such high pretensions, they are many. None of them are without their merit,...to low and vulgar characters, and who express with preqision the various shades of passion, as they are exhibited by vulgar minds, (such as we see in... | |
 | 1812
...decay'd by time uud 9tunu« flounced on those who, in the same tasle, Iv.ivn cultivated the sister art. " The painters who have applied themselves more...express with precision the various shades of passion ns they are exhibited by vulgar minds (such as we •ee in the works of Hogarth), de*e*ve great praise;... | |
 | 1803
...for the various departments of the arl, which do not prefume to make fuch high prétentions, there are many ;" none of them are without their merit, though none enter into competition with this great universal prefiding idea the art. The painters who have applied thcmfclves more particularly... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809
...perfect.. As for the various departments of painting, which do not presume to make such high pretensions, they are many. None of them are without their merit,...presiding idea of the art. The painters who have applied tjiemselves more particularly to low and vulgar characters, and who express with precision the various... | |
 | ...departments of painting which do not presume to make such high pretensions, thev are many. None of them we without their merit, though none enter into competition...who have applied themselves more particularly to low vulgar characters, and who express with precision the various shades of passion, as they are exhibited... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Henry William Beechey, Thomas Gray, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, William Mason - 1852
...perfect. As for the various departments of painting, which do not presume to make such high pretensions, they are many. None of them are without their merit,...applied themselves more particularly to low and vulgar chuacters, and who express with precision the various shades cf passion, as they are exhihited by vulgar,... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie - 1865
...of them," he admits, " are without their merit, In his 'Modern Taintcre,' vol. iii. chap, i.— ED. though none enter into competition with this universal presiding idea of the art.1 The painters who have applied themselves more particularly to low and vulgar characters, and... | |
 | 1880
...make such high pretensions, there are many. None of them arc without their merit, though none of them enter into competition with this universal presiding...art. The painters who have applied themselves more particulaily to low and vulgar characters, and who express with precision the various shades of passion... | |
 | Lewis Worthington Smith, James Eames Thomas - 1901 - 406 sider
...great uni^ versal pervading idea of the art. With this none of them come into competition. There are painters who have applied themselves more particularly to low and vulgar characters. They express with precision the various shades of passion as they are exhibited by vulgar minds. This... | |
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As for the various departments of painting, which do not presume to make such high pretensions, they are many. None of them are without their merit, though none enter into competition with this universal presiding idea of the art. 
