 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 446 pages
...An intimate knowledge of the passions and good sense, but not common sense, must at last'determine its limits. It has been thought, and I believe with...transgressed those limits; and I think I have seen figures by him, of which it was very difficult to determine, whether they were in the highest degree sublime... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but not common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angela sometimes transgressed those limits ; and I thing I have seen figures of him of which it was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 430 pages
...lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but not common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angela sometimes transgressed those limits ; and I thing I have seen figures of him of which it was... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 690 pages
...lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but not common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought,...difficult to determine whether they were in the highest decree sublime or extremely ridiculous. Such faults may be said to be the ebullitions of genius ; but... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but not common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought,...those limits ; and I think I have seen figures of his of which it was very difficult to determine whether they were in the highest degree sublime or... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 594 pages
...lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but not common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought,...Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits; and 1 think I have seen figures of him of which it was very difficult to determine whether they were in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 612 pages
...lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but not common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought,...Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits ; and 1 think I have seen figures of him of which it was very difficult to determine whether they were in... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 324 pages
...lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the ! passions and good sense, but not common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought,...transgressed those limits; and I think I have seen figures by him, of which it was very difficult to determine, whether they were in the highest degree sublime... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 548 pages
...lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but not common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo transgressed those limits ; and I think I have seen figures of him, of which it was very difficult... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but not common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought,...believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes trangressed those limits ; and I think I have seen figures of him of which it was very difficult to... | |
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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,... 
