| sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great, and general...which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
| 1803 - 222 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general...which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...more in our native counti-y." -No. 82. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER JO, 1759. TO THE IDLER. sIR, 13 ISCOURSING in my last letter on the different practice of the...of the Italian masters. If it can be proved that by tiiis choice they selected the most beautiful part of the creation, it will shew how much their principles... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...shelter in their ships, and reign once more in our native country." No. 82. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1759TO THE IDLER. SIR, DISCOURSING in my last letter on the...selected the most beautiful part of the creation, it will shew how much their principles are founded on reason, and at the same time discover the origin of our... | |
| sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 440 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 446 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say of... | |
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