...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...

...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...

...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,...to be the ebullitions of genius ; but at least he hod this merit, that he never was insipid, and whatever passion his works may excite, they will always...

...been thought, and I believe wilh reuson, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed thos^ limiis , and, I think, I have seen figures of him of which...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 work*...

...passions, and good sense, but not common sense, 1 The closinj; lines of Wordsworth's Childless Father. must at last determine its limits. It has been thought,...sometimes transgressed those limits; and, I think, J have seen figures of him of which it was very difficult to determine whether they were in the highest...

...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 think I have seen figures of him, of which it was...