 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1906 - 354 sider
...— "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,...competition with this universal presiding idea of the art" [this by-the-by from " The President"]. " The painters who have applied themselves more particularly... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1909 - 518 sider
...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 chaacters, and who express with precision the various shades cf passion, as they are exhibited by vulgar... | |
 | John Barrell - 1995 - 384 sider
...somehow licensed to ignore it. On the one hand, those comic painters who 'have applied themselves ... to low and vulgar characters, and who express with...the various shades of passion, as they are exhibited in vulgar minds' deserve praise only 'in proportion, as, in those limited subjects, and peculiar forms,... | |
 | 1839 - 348 sider
...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,...characters, and who express with precision the various shadea of passion, as they are exhibited by vulgar minds, (such as we see in the works of Hogarth,)... | |
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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. 
