 ... the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order,...  Works - Page 280by Samuel Johnson - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1767 - 366 pages
...beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a fuperior kind, fiuce one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other. IF my opinion was afked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from pofleffing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 442 pages
...beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a fuperior kind, fince one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other. If my opinion was alked concerning the works of Michael Angela, whether they would receive any advantage fiom poflrffing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a fuperior kind, fince one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other. If my opinion was afked concerning the works of Michael Angela, whether they would receive any advantage from pofleffing... | |
 | 1787 - 528 pages
...beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a fnperior kind, lince one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other. If my opinion was alked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether thcv wui^ld receive any advantage from poltciling... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a fuperior kind, fince one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other. If my opinion was afked concerning the works of Michael Angela, whether they would receive any advantage from pofleffing... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 452 pages
...it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, that ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other. If my opinion were asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, that ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other. If my opinion were asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing...opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angela, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing this mechanical merit, I should not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 pages
...to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing...works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive anyadvantage from possessing this mechanical merit, I should not scruple to say they would not only... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 446 pages
...it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, that ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other. If my opinion were asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
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