 Nature upon close examination will be found to have their blemishes and defects. The most beautiful forms have something about them like weakness, minuteness, or imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long...  The Decorator's assistant - Page 143Full view - About this book
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 pages
...imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of these forms ;...This long laborious comparison should be the first study of the painter, who aims at the greatest style. By this means, he acquires a just idea of beautiful... | |
 | 1907 - 584 pages
...imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of these forms, and...This long, laborious comparison should be the first study of the painter who aims at the greatest style. By this means he acquires a just idea of beautiful... | |
 | James Field Stanfield - 1813 - 402 pages
...details of every kind." " It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of those forms : and which, by a long habit of observing what...any set of objects of the same kind have in common,. that alone can acquire the power of discerning what each wants [or has] in particular. "f From all... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1819 - 614 pages
...imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of these forms ;...This long laborious comparison should be the first study of the painter, who aims at the greatest style. By this means, he acquires a just idea of beautiful... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 pages
...observing what any setofpbjects of the same kind havejn common, has acquired the power of dis-^ cerning what each .wants in particular. This long laborious comparison should be the first study of the painter, who aims at the greatest style. By this means, he acquires a just idea of beautiful... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of these forms ;...This long laborious comparison should be the first study of the painter, who aims at the greatest style. By this means, he acquires a just idea of beautiful... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of these forms ;...This long laborious comparison should be the first study of the painter, who aims at the greatest style. By this means, he acquires a just idea of beautiful... | |
 | Buonarroti - 1828 - 24 pages
...these blemishes. It must be an eye long ac" customed to the contemplation and comparison " of those forms ; and which by a long habit of " observing what any set of objects of the same 16 SAMPSON. " kind have in common, has acquired the power " of discerning what each wants in particular.... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of these forms ;...This long laborious comparison should be the first study of the Painter who aims at the great style. By this means, he acquires a just idea of beautiful... | |
 | Donald Walker - 1836 - 336 pages
...imperfection. But it is not every eye that perceives these blemishes. It must be an eye long used to the contemplation and comparison of these forms; and...power of discerning what each wants in particular. " Thus it is from a reiterated experience, and a close comparison of the objects in nature, that an... | |
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