 This great ideal perfection and beauty are not to be sought in the heavens, but upon earth. They are about us, and upon every side of us.  The Discourses - Page 28by Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 283 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1772 - 656 pages
...firft, to lie without the reach of precept, and yet may eafily be reduced to practical principles. Experience is all in all ; but it is not every one who profits by experience : and mod people err, not fo much from want of capacity to find their object, as from not knowing what object... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 pages
...first, to lie without the reach of precept, and yet may easily be reduced to practical principles. Experience is all in all ; but it is not every one...great ideal perfection and beauty are not to be sought kTthe heavens, but upon' lEe eartK They are about us, and upon every side of us. But the power of discoveringwhat... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1819 - 614 pages
...first, to lie without the reach of precept, and yet may easily be reduced to practical principles. Experience is all in all ; but it is not every one...most people err, not so much from want of capacity Co find their object, as from not knowing what object to pursue. This great ideal perfection and beauty... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 318 pages
...first, to lie without the reach of precept, and yet may easily be reduced to practical principles. Experience is all in all ; but it is not every one...pursue. This great ideal perfection and beauty are not be sought in the heavens, but upon the earth. They are about us, and upon every side of us. But the... | |
 | 458 pages
...one I who profits by experience ; and most people I err, not so much from want of capacity to find j their object, as from not knowing what object :to...great ideal perfection and ; beauty are not to be soughtin the heavens, but upon the earth. They are about us, and upon j every side of us. But the power... | |
 | 1852 - 454 pages
...road ; for, as Sir Joshua Reynolds well observes, " Most people err, not so much from want of capaeity to find their object, as from not knowing what object to pursue." Those who possess any real knowledge of art will be fully sensible of the truth of all that we have... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 394 pages
...first, to lie without the reach of precept, and yet may easily be reduced to practical principles. Experience is all in all ; but it is not every one...profits by experience; and most people err, not so muck from want of capacity to find their object, as from not knowing what object to pursue. This great... | |
 | Thomas Hay Sweet Escott - 1880 - 652 pages
...English art '? And yet we are reminded, in the words of Sir Joshua Reynolds, " the ideal perfectand beauty are not to be sought in the heavens, but upon the earti They are about us and upon every side of us." The whole of tl_i question was ably discussed,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 pages
...seem, at first, to lie without the reach of precept, and yet may easily be reduced to practical prin, ciples. Experience is all in all : but it is not every...much from want of capacity to find their object, as from_not \ knowing what object to pursue. This great ideal perfection and beauty are not to be sought... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1905 - 564 pages
...first, to lie without the reach of precept, and yet may easily be reduced to practical principles. Experience is all in all ; but it is not every one...to be sought in the heavens, but upon" the" earth. They_ are about us, and upon every side of us. But the power of di_scovering.what is deformed in .Nature,... | |
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