 ... the whole beauty and grandeur of the art consists, in my opinion, in being able to get above all singular forms, local customs, particularities, and details of every kind.  The Discourses - Page 29by Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 283 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1771 - 622 pages
...his fkill and labour were directed." Let us now hear on what principles he founds his precepts. • All the objects which are exhibited to our view by Nature, upon clofe examination will be found to have their blemifhes and defects. The moft beautiful forms have... | |
 | Several Hands - 1771 - 614 pages
...all his fkill and labour were directed" Let us now hear on what principles he founds his' precepts. < All the objects which are exhibited to our view by Nature, upon clofe examination will be found to have their blemifhes and defe&s. The moft beautiful forms have fomething... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1772 - 656 pages
...opinion, in being able to get above all fingular forms, local cuftoms, particularities, and details o[ every kind. All the objects which are exhibited to our view by nature, upon clofe examination will be found to have their blemifhes and defers. The moft beautiful forms have fomething... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 pages
...experience; and the whole beauty and grandeur of the art consists, in my opinion, in being able to get above all singular forms, local customs, particularities,...every kind. All the objects which are exhibited to view by nature, upon close examination will be found to have their blemishes and defects. The most... | |
 | James Field Stanfield - 1813 - 402 pages
...to local or particular cases. " The whole beauty and grandeur of the art consists, in being 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... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...experience ; and the whole beauty and grandeur of the art consists, in my opinion, in being able to get above all singular forms, local customs, particularities, and details of every kind. AH the objects which are exhibited to our view by Nature, upon close examination will be found to have... | |
 | 1842 - 528 pages
...Reynolds has referred the idea of beauty to some ' central form* in the objects of our perception. 'All the 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 forms have something about them... | |
 | 1842 - 530 pages
...Reynolds has referred the idea of beauty to some ' central form' in the objects of our perception. 'All the 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 forms have something about them... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 318 pages
...experience ; and the whole beauty and grandeur of the Art consists, in my opinion, in being able to get above all singular forms, 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... | |
 | 1842 - 540 pages
...Reynolds has referred the idea of beauty to some ' central form' in the objects of our perception. 'All the 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 forms have something about them... | |
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