 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 488 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 610 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 514 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... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 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... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1846 - 506 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 Michel Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits; and I think I have seen figures by him, of which... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - 422 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 418 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,...ridiculous. Such faults may be said to be the ebullitions of genins ; but at least he had this merit, that he never was insipid, and whatever passion his works... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1879 - 414 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,...think, I have seen figures of him of which it was verydifficult to determine whether they were in the highest degree sublime or extremely ridiculous.... | |
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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,... 
