 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...Angela sometimes transgressed those limits ; and I thing I have seen figures of him of which it was very difficult to determine whether they were in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 430 pages
...great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...Angela sometimes transgressed those limits ; and I thing I have seen figures of him of which it was very difficult to determine whether they were in the... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...great a restraint of imagination : and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...thought, and I believe, with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits ; and I think I have seen figures of his of which it was... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 378 pages
...too great a restraint of imagination; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits; and I think I have seen figures of him of which it was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pages
...too great a restraint of imagination; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits ; and I think I have seen figures of him of which it was... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 690 pages
...great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits; and I think I have seen figures of him of which it was... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 324 pages
...too great a restraint of imagination; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, : lifeless insipidity. An intimate...been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits; and I think I have seen figures by him, of which it was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits; and I think I have seen figures of him of which it was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but not common sehsf!7"niusT"at last determine its limits. It has been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 514 pages
...great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate...been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits ; and I think I have seen figures by him, of which it was... | |
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There may perhaps be too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense,... 
