 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 624 pages
...painting or fculpture, is a fufikient proof that the pleafure we receive from imitation is not increafed merely in proportion as it approaches to minute and detailed reality ; we are pleafcd, on the contrary, by feeing ends anfwercd by teeming inadequate means. To exprels protuberance... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1783 - 504 pages
...painting or fculpture, is a fuffrcient proof that the pleafure we receive from imitation is not increafed merely in proportion as it approaches to minute and detailed reality : we are pleafed, on the contrary, by leeing ends anfwered by feeming inadequate means." On thefe principles,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1785 - 276 pages
..." ture, is a fufficient proof that the pleafure we receive '•'•from imitation is not increafed merely in proportion " as it approaches to minute and detailed reality : we " are pleafed, on the contrary, by feeing ends anfuiered " by feeming inadequate means *." — On thefe principles,... | |
 | 1800 - 624 pages
...painting or fculpture, is a funkier) t proof that the pleafure we receive from imitation is not increafed merely in proportion as it approaches to minute and detailed reality ; we are pleaded, on the contrary, by feeing ends anIvvered by iteming inadequate means. To exprefs protuberance... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...do not mean to prescribe what degree of attention ought to be paid to the minute parts ; this it is hard to settle. We are sure that it is expressing...grateful surprise. But to express distances on a plain surface, softness by hard bodies, and particular colouring by materials which are not singly of that... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 452 pages
...resemblance may be even disagreeable. I shall only observe that the effect of figures in Wax- work, though certainly a more exact representation than...grateful surprise. But to express distances on a plain surface, softness by hard bodies, and particular colouring by materials which are not singly of that... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1809 - 442 pages
...do not mean to prescribe what degree of attention ought to be paid to the minute parts ; this it is hard to settle. We are sure that it is expressing...grateful surprise. But to express distances on a plain surface, softness by hard bodies, and particular colouring by materials which are not singly of that... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 440 pages
...do not mean to prescribe what degree of attention ought to be paid to the minute parts ; this it is hard to settle. We are sure that it is expressing...grateful surprise. But to express distances on a plain surface, softness by hard bodies, and particular colouring by materials which are not singly of that... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 446 pages
...do not mean to prescribe what degree of attention ought to be paid to the minute parts; this it is hard to settle. We are sure that it is expressing...grateful surprise. But to express distances on a plain surface, softness by hard bodies, and particular colouring by materials which are not singly of that... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 pages
...represented in a more lively manner than the minutest resemblance would do. i • These obseriations may lead to very deep questions, which I do not mean...grateful surprise. But to express distances on a plain surface, softness by hard bodies, and particular colouring by materials which are not singly of that... | |
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Sculpture, is a sufficient proof that the pleasure we receive from imitation is not increased merely in proportion as it approaches to minute and detailed reality; we are pleased, on the contrary, by seeing ends accomplished by seemingly inadequate means.... 
