I have remarked in ,a former Discourse, must be employed in the attainment of mechanical dexterity, and confined to the mere imitation of the object before him. Those who have advanced beyond the rudiments, may, perhaps, find advantage in reflecting on... The Decorator's assistant - Page 142Full view - About this book
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 pages
...rudiments, may, perhaps, find advantage in reflecting on the advice which I have likewise given E a them, when I recommended the diligent study of the...herself is not to be too closely copied. There are excellencies in the art of painting beyond what is commonly called the imitation of nature : and these... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 pages
...rudiments, may, perhaps, find advantage in reflecting on the advice which I have likewise given E 2 them, when I recommended the diligent study of the...herself is not to be too closely copied. There are excellencies in the art of painting beyond what is commonly called the imitation of nature ; and these... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1819 - 614 pages
...the rudiments, may, perhaps, find advantage in reflecting on the advice which I have likewise given them, when I recommended the diligent study of the...themselves from the abundance and variety of Nature. ' will now add, that Nature herself is not to be too closely copied. There are excellencies in the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 420 pages
...to what has been said on the imitation of particular objects. In the Third Discourse he observes, " I will now add that nature herself is not to be too closely copied. ... A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great ; can never raise and enlarge the conceptions,... | |
| sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...the rudiments, may, perhaps, find advantage in reflecting on the advice which I have likewise given them, when I recommended the diligent study of the...herself is not to be too closely copied. There are excellencies in the art of painting beyond what is commonly called the imitation of Nature ; and these... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...the rudiments, may, perhaps, find advantage in reflecting on the advice which I have likewise given them, when I recommended the diligent study of the...herself is not to be too closely copied. There are excellencies in the art of painting beyond what is commonly called the imitation of Nature ; and these... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1844 - 476 pages
...to what has been said on the imitation of particular objects. In the Third Discourse he observes, " I will now add that nature herself is not to be too closely copied. ... A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great; can never raise -and enlarge the conceptions,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1846 - 514 pages
...to what has been said on the imitation of particular objects. In the Third Discourse he observes, " I will now add that nature herself is not to be too closely copied. ... A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great ; can never raise and enlarge the conceptions,... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1853 - 388 pages
...the rudiments, may, perhaps, find advantage in reflecting on the advice which I have likewise given them, when I recommended the diligent study of the...of our great predecessors; but I at the same time endeavored to guard them against an implicit submission to the authority of any one master however... | |
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