 | English authors - 1876 - 504 pages
...longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to poetry, this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed...imagination? To this power the painter of genius directs his aim; in this sense he studies nature, and often arrives at his end, even by being unnatural in... | |
 | John Burnet - 1880 - 116 pages
...longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to poetry, this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed...pretence has the art to claim kindred with poetry, but its powers over the imagination ? To this power the painter of genius directs his aim ; in this sense... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1885 - 654 pages
...longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to Poetry, this imitation being nearly mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed...has the art to claim kindred with poetry but by its power over the imagination ? To this power the painter of genius directs him ; in this sense he studies... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 pages
...longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to Poetry : this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed...has the Art to claim kindred with Poetry, but by its power over the imagination t To this power the Painter of genius directs his aim ; in this sense he... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 664 pages
...longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to Poetry, this imitation being nearly mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed...has the art to claim kindred with poetry but by its power over the imagination ? To this power the painter of genius directs him ; in this sense he studies... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 332 pages
...longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to Poetry : this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed...has the Art to claim kindred with Poetry, but by its power over the imagination 1 To this power the Painter of genius directs his aim ; in this sense he... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1889 - 638 pages
...longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to Poetry, this imitation being nearly mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed...has the art to claim kindred with poetry but by its power over the imagination 1 To this power the painter of genius directs him ; in this sense he studies... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 476 pages
...longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to Poetry, this imitation being nearly mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed...has the art to claim kindred with poetry but by its power over the imagination ? To this power the painter of genius directs him ; in this sense he studies... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 458 pages
...longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to poetry, this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed...drudgery, in which the understanding has no part; and what pretense has the art to claim kindred with poetry, but by its powers over the imagination ? To this... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 450 pages
...painter of genius cannot stoop to drudgery, in which the understanding has no part; and what pretense has the art to claim kindred with poetry, but by its...imagination ? To this power the painter of genius directs his aim; in this sense he studies nature, and often arrives at his end, even by being unnatural in... | |
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... perhaps, to hear this sense of the rule disputed ; but it must be considered, that, if the excellency of a painter consisted only in this kind of imitation, painting must lose its rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to poetry,... 
