 | John Ruskin - 1918 - 456 pages
...narrative, and adopting every ornament that will warm the imagination.*) To desire to see the excellences of each style united — to mingle the Dutch with...together, and which destroy the efficacy of each -other." We find, first, from this interesting passage, that the writer considers the Dutch and Italian masters... | |
 | 1922 - 766 pages
...it will be recalled, Reynolds prefers the Italian painters to the Dutch, because the Italians attend "only to the invariable, the great and general ideas...fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch ... to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail."4*" The opposition of the invariable idea,... | |
 | 1819 - 788 pages
...imitation. The enlightened angler docs not condescend to imitate specifically the detail of things — he attends only to the invariable, the great, and general ideas which are inherent in nature. He throws his fly lightly and with elegance on the surface of the glittering waters,... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 pages
...confined sense of the word. ornament that will warm the imagination. To desire to see the excellencies of each style united, to mingle the Dutch with the...the invariable, the great, and general ideas which arc fixed and inherent in universal Nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute... | |
 | 1922 - 710 pages
...it will be recalled, Reynolds prefers the Italian painters to the Dutch, because the Italians attend "only to the invariable, the great and general ideas...fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch . . . to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail."4*0 The opposition of the invariable idea,... | |
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I was led into the subject of this letter by endeavouring to fix the original cause of this conduct of the Italian masters. If it can be proved that by this choice they selected the most beautiful part of the creation, it will... 
