| William Hazlitt - 1903 - 536 sider
...and all the common concerns of life. He is indeed a signal instance of what well-directed difigence will do in a short time : he lived but twenty-seven...beyond what it had before reached, that he appears to 1 How careful is Sir Joshua, even in a parenthesis, to insinuate the obligations of this great genius... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1903 - 546 sider
...time the natural faculties of his mind were as remarkable as his industry ; at another he was only a signal instance of what well-directed diligence will do in a short time. Then again ' he appears to have been the first who discovered the path that leads to every excellence... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1905 - 564 sider
...of Masaccio,1 from his total disregard to his dress, his person and all the common concerns of life. He is, indeed, a signal instance of what welldirected...lived but twenty-seven years; yet in that short space he carried the art so far beyond what it had before reached, that he appears to stand alone as a model... | |
| Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner - 1910 - 298 sider
...of his time; so had Homer. Raphael lived but thirty-seven years; and in that short space carried his art so far beyond what it had before reached, that he appears to stand alone as a model to his successors. 4. There are instances to the contrary; but, generally speaking, the life of all... | |
| 1850 - 698 sider
...mastered -all the knowledge of his time ; so. had Homer. Raffaelle lived but thirty-seven years ; and in that short space carried the art so far beyond...reached, that he appears to stand alone as a model to his successors. There (ire instances to the contrary ; but, generally speaking, the life of all... | |
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