 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 324 pages
...together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the iavariable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth, and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 610 pages
...them, force their remains to take shelter in their ships, and reign once more in our native country P." N°. 82. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1759. TO THE IDLER....it can be proved that by this choice they selected the most beautiful part of the creation, it will show how much their principles are founded on reason,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 488 pages
...them, force their remains to take shelter in their ships, and reign once more in our native country P." N°. 82. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1759. TO THE IDLER....it can be proved that by this choice they selected the most beautiful part of the creation, it will show how much their principles are founded on reason,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...them, force their remains to take shelter in their ships, and reign once more in our native country p." N°. 82. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1759. TO THE IDLER....it can be proved that by this choice they selected the most beautiful part of the creation, it will show how much their principles are founded on reason,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...in their ships, and reign once more in our native country P." N°. H2. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 175!). TO THE IDLER. SIR, DISCOURSING in my last letter on...it can be proved that by this choice they selected the most beautiful part of the creation, it will show how much their principles are founded on reason,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 pages
...November 10, 1759. TO THE IDLER. SIB. — Discoursing in my last letter on the different pr;x< tice of the Italian and Dutch painters, I observed that...it can be proved that by this choice they selected the most beautiful part of the creation, it will show how much their principles are founded on reason,... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 514 pages
...together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the in^ variable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1846 - 506 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...which are fixed and .inherent in universal Nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Henry William Beechey - 1852 - 512 pages
...they would not for that reason immediately compare the Painter to Raffaelle and Michel Angelo. NUMBER 82. Saturday, November 10. 1759. TO THE IDLER. SIR,...it can be proved that by this choice they selected the most beautiful part of the creation, it will show how much their principles are founded on reason,... | |
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The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident.... 
