| James Field Stanfield - 1813 - 402 pages
...able to get above all singular forms, local customs, particularities, and details of every kind." " It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of those forms : and which, by a long habit of observing what any set of objects of the same kind have... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 pages
...singular _ customs,particularities,^nd details of every^ kind. All the objects which are exhibited to our view by nature, upon close examination will be found...contemplation and comparison of these forms ; and which by_a_Jlong habit of observing what any setofpbjects of the same kind havejn common, has acquired the... | |
| Buonarroti - 1828 - 24 pages
...of advice, in the language of Sir Joshua Reynolds ; " All the objects which are exhibited to our " view by nature, upon close examination will be " found...something about " them like weakness, minuteness, or imper" fection. But it is not every eye that perceives " these blemishes. It must be an eye long ac"... | |
| 1842 - 554 pages
...objects which are exhibited to our view by nature, upon close examination, will be found,' he says, ' to have their blemishes and defects. The most beautiful...; and which, by a long habit of observing what any eet of objects of the same kind have in common, has acqifired the power of discerning what each wants... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 318 pages
...local customs, particularities, and details of every kind.6 All the objects which are exhibited to our view by Nature, upon close examination will be found...is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It from the general sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those Arts themselves ;... | |
| Benjamin Robert Haydon - 1844 - 364 pages
...either Fuzeli or Reynolds. Reynolds says (Discourse III.), " all objects which are exhibited to our view by nature, upon close examination will be found...minuteness, or imperfection; but it is not every eye which perceives those blemishes. It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of... | |
| 1844 - 444 pages
...local customs, ^particularities and details of every kin^,/ All the objects which are exhibited to our view by nature, upon close examination will be found...them like weakness, minuteness, or imperfection." The painter, therefore, who aims at the grand style-jshould form an " idea of the perfect state of... | |
| 1844 - 456 pages
...local customs, particularities and details of every kind. All the objects which are exhibited to our view by nature, upon close examination will be found...them like weakness, minuteness, or imperfection." The painter, therefore, who aims at the grand style, should form an " idea of the perfect state of... | |
| 458 pages
...local customs, particularities, and details of every kind. All the objects which are exhibited to our ,view by nature, upon close examination will be 'found...something about 'them like weakness, minuteness, or imperfecition. But it is not every eye that perceives jthese blemishes. It must be an eye long used... | |
| George Cleghorn (writer on art.) - 1848 - 366 pages
...peculiarities of the individual. " All the objects," says Sir Joshua Reynolds, " which are exhibited to our view by nature, upon close examination will be found...have something about them like weakness, minuteness, and imperfection, but it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long used... | |
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