 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...rule off the arts in the wrong place ; they sought it among poems,! pictures, engravings, statues, and buildings. But art can! never give the rules that make an art. This is, I believe, the reason why artists in general, and poets • principally, have been confined in so narrow a circle... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 pages
...arts in the wrong place ; they have fought it among poems, pictures, &c. — " But," he continues, " art can never give the rules that " make an art. This...general, and poets principally, " have been confined within fo narrow a circle ; " they have been rather imitators of one " another, than of nature; and... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 pages
...arts in the wrong place ; they have fought it among poems, pictures, &c. — -" But," he continues, " art can never give the rules that " make an art. This...general, and poets principally, " have been confined within fo narrow a circle ; " they have been rather imitators of one " another, than of nature; and... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 pages
...fought it among poems, pictures, &c. — " But," he continues, " art can never give the rules that 'l make an art. This is, I believe, the reafon " why...general, and poets principally, " have been confined within fo narrow a circle ; " they have been rather imitators of one " another, than of nature; and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...have done little ; and what they have done, was moftly with a view to their own fchemes and fyftems : and as for thofe called critics, they have generally...buildings. But art can never give the rules that make an art.T his is, I believe, the reafon why artifts in general, and poets principally, have been confined... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...have done little; and what they have done, was moftly with a view to their own fchemes and fyftems: and as for thofe called critics, they have generally...buildings. But art can never give the rules that make an art.T his is, I believe, the reafon why artifts in general, and poets principally, have been confined... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pages
...have done little ; and what they have done, was moftly with a view to their own fchemes and fyftems ; and as for thofe called critics, they have generally...arts in the wrong place ; they fought it among poems, piftures, engravings-., tings, ftatues and buildings. But art can never give the rujes that make an... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...have done, was moftly with a view to their own fchemes and fyftems: and as for thofe called criticks, they have generally fought the rule of the arts in...never give the rules' that 'make an art. This is, 1 be' • lieve, lieve, the reafon why artifts in general, and poets •principally, have been confined... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 pages
...the rule of the arts in the wrong place ; they sought it among poems, pictures, engravings, statues, and buildings. But art can never give the rules that make an art. This is, I believe, the reason why artists in general, and poets principally, have been confined in so narrow a circle ; they... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...the rule of the arts in the wrong place ; they sought it among poems, pictures, engravings, statues, and buildings. But art can never give the rules that make an art. This is, I believe, the reason why artists in general, and poets principally, have been confined in so narrow a circle ; they... | |
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... as for those called critics, they have generally sought the rule of the arts in the wrong place ; they sought it among poems, pictures, engravings, statues, and buildings. But art can never give the rules that make an art. This is, I believe, the... 
