 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 452 pages
...great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the .other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...thought, and I believe with reason, that, Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed ihose limits ; and I think I have seen figures by him, of which it was... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed .those limits ; and I think I have seen figures .by him, of .which it... | |
 | 1803 - 222 pages
...great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits ; and I think I have seen figures of him of which it was... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1809 - 442 pages
...great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...last determine its limits. It has been thought, and"! believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits; and I think I have seen... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...the passions, and good sense, but not common sense, roust at last determine its limits. It has been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...thought, and I believe with reason,' that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits ; and I think I have seen figures of him, of which it was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...too great a restraint of imagination; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but Hot common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought, and I believe with reason,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 pages
...great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits ; and I think I have seen figures of him of which it was... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 440 pages
...great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits ; and I think I have seen figures by him, of which it was... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 446 pages
...great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...passions and good sense, but not common sense, must at last'determine its limits. It has been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes... | |
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There may perhaps be too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense,... 
