 | Edmund Burke - 1772 - 656 pages
...enabled to practice. It is nnt eafy to define in what this great ilyle'confills ; nor to de.fcribe, by words, the proper means of acquiring it, if the mind of the Student .hould be at all capable of fuch an acquifuion. Could we teach taire or genius by rules, they would... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 pages
...which alone we can reason, and may be enabled to practise. It is not easy to define in what this great style consists ; nor to describe, by words, the proper...if the mind of the student should be at all capable 5 57 V of such an acquisition. Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste... | |
 | 1803 - 582 pages
...enabled to practife. It is not eafy to define in what .this great ílylecónfi.íh: nor to deferibe, by words, the proper means of acquiring it, if the mind of the ihjdent (liould be at all capable of fuch an aoquifition. Could we leach tañe or genius by rules,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 430 pages
...which alone we can reason, and may be enabled to practise. It is not easy to define in what this great style consists ; nor to describe, by words, the proper...genius. But though there neither are, nor can be, arsy precise invariable rules for the exercise, or the acquisition, of these great qualities, yet we... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 pages
...which alone we can reason, and may be enabled to practise. It is not easy to define in what this great style consists ; nor to describe, by words, the proper...Student should be at all capable of such an acquisition. I Could we teach tastejDr genius by rules. they would be no longer taste and genius. But though there... | |
 | James Northcote - 1819 - 382 pages
...are scarcely able to attain." He confessed, indeed, that it is not easy to define in what this great style consists ; nor to describe, by words, the proper means of acquiring it, even if the mind of the student should be highly capable of such an acquisition ; for if taste or genius... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 420 pages
...industry." — Vol. I. p. 56. Yet presently after he adds, " It is not easy to define in what this great style consists; nor to describe by words the proper...rules, they would be no longer taste and genius." — Ibid. p. 57. Here then Sir Joshua admits that it is a question whether the student is likely to... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...alone we can reason, and may be enabled / to practise. / It is not easy to define in what this great style consists ; nor to describe, by words, the proper...Student should be at all capable of such an acquisition. Gould we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste ai.d genius. But though there... | |
 | 1834 - 754 pages
...system, than its involving such an impracticable axiom. Sir Joshua admits, that could we teach taste and genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius ; but he contends that whatever pleases does so by some • Walpole was always botli severe and unjust when... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...which alone we can reason, and may be enabled to practise. It is not easy to define in what this great style consists; nor to describe, by words, the proper...of acquiring it, if the mind of the Student should beat all capable of such an acquisition. Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no... | |
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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... 
