The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ; Late President of the Royal Academy: Containing His Discourses ; Idlers ; A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; Printed from His Revised Copies, (with His Last Corrections and Additions) ... To which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edmond Malone, Esq. One of His Executors..T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1809 |
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... received the honour of knighthood . It was no part of the prescribed duty of his office to read lectures to the Aca- demy ; but our author voluntarily imposed this task upon himself , for the reasons which he has assigned in his ...
... received the honour of knighthood . It was no part of the prescribed duty of his office to read lectures to the Aca- demy ; but our author voluntarily imposed this task upon himself , for the reasons which he has assigned in his ...
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... receiving from them that species of literary assistance which every candid lite- rary man is willing to receive , and which even that tran- scendent genius , Mr. Burke , in some instances did not disdain to accept . Of the early ...
... receiving from them that species of literary assistance which every candid lite- rary man is willing to receive , and which even that tran- scendent genius , Mr. Burke , in some instances did not disdain to accept . Of the early ...
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... received from those whom he honoured with his confidence and esteem ! The reader has before him the testimony of Sir Joshua Reynolds himself , as far as this calumny relates to Dr. Johnson ; he has the decisive testimony of Mr. Burke ...
... received from those whom he honoured with his confidence and esteem ! The reader has before him the testimony of Sir Joshua Reynolds himself , as far as this calumny relates to Dr. Johnson ; he has the decisive testimony of Mr. Burke ...
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... received this mark of her Imperial Majesty's favour , he had been commissioned to paint an Historical Picture for her , on any subject that he thought fit . The subject which he chose was , The Infant Hercules strang- ling the Serpents ...
... received this mark of her Imperial Majesty's favour , he had been commissioned to paint an Historical Picture for her , on any subject that he thought fit . The subject which he chose was , The Infant Hercules strang- ling the Serpents ...
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... received with his usual complacency and politeness . As posterity may be curious to know what were the prices paid at various periods to this great painter for his works , it may not perhaps be thought too minute to add , that about the ...
... received with his usual complacency and politeness . As posterity may be curious to know what were the prices paid at various periods to this great painter for his works , it may not perhaps be thought too minute to add , that about the ...
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Side 61 - A man cannot tell, whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions, the other by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one Excellent.
Side 40 - Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour. It argues indeed no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advances; which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.
Side cxxi - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages.
Side 70 - He will permit the lower painter, like the florist or collector of shells, to exhibit the minute discriminations which distinguish one object of the same species from another; while he, like the philosopher, will consider nature in the abstract, and represent in every one of his figures the character of its species.
Side 157 - ... far from being contented to make such habits the discipline of our youth only, we should, to the last moment of our lives, continue a settled intercourse with all the true examples of grandeur.
Side 44 - 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 253 - 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 civ - Of men by laws less circumscribed and bound, They led their wild desires to woods and caves And thought that all but savages were slaves.
Side 79 - HE value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labour employed in it, or the mental pleasure produced by it. As this principle is observed or neglected, our profession becomes either a liberal art, or a mechanical trade.
Side cxxxiii - It is indeed difficult to give any other reason why an empire like that of Britain should so long have wanted an ornament so suitable to its greatness, than that slow progression of things which naturally makes elegance and refinement the last effect of opulence and power.