 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 332 pages
...enthusiasm that the arts of Painting and Poetry may admit. There may perhaps be too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination ;...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... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 pages
...of Painting and Poetry may admit. There may perhaps be too groat an indulgence, as well as too groat a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces...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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1888 - 1230 pages
...admit. There may, perhaps, he too great indulgence as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other...intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, hut not common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought, and I believe with reason,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1889 - 638 pages
...admit. There may, perhaps, be too great indulgence as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other...transgressed those limits ; and, I think, I have seen figures of him of which it was very difficult to determine whether they were in the highest degree sublime... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 488 pages
...admit. There may, perhaps, be too great indulgence as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other...transgressed those limits ; and, I think, I have seen figures of him of which it was very difficult to determine whether they were in the highest degree sublime... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 476 pages
...admit. There may, perhaps, be too great indulgence as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other...transgressed those limits ; and, I think, I have seen figures of him of which it was very difficult to determine whether they were in the highest degree sublime... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 424 pages
...admit. There may, perhaps, be too great indulgence as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; if the one produces incoherent .monsters, the other produces what is full as .bnj, lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but not common sense,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 458 pages
...admit. There may perhaps be too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagiination; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other...transgressed those limits; and I think I have seen figures of him of which it was very difficult to determine whether they were in the highest degree sublime... | |
 | Ida Maria Street - 1901 - 484 pages
...admit. There may, perhaps, be too great indulgence as well as too great a restraint of imagination; if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other...transgressed those limits ; and, I think, I have seen figures of him of which it was very difficult to determine whether they were in the highest degree sublime... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 628 pages
...admit. There may, perhaps, be too great an indulgence as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other...last determine its limits. It has been thought, and 1 believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits ; and, I think, I have... | |
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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,... 
