 I have often lamented that so great a genius as Raffaelle had not lived in this enlightened, age, since the art has been reduced to principles, and had had his education in one of the modern academies ; what glorious works might we then have expected...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 277by Samuel Johnson - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 690 pages
...Charge to Peter. " Here," says he, " are twelve upright figures ; what a pity it is that Raffaelle was not acquainted with the pyramidal principle !...at the same time that great admiration is pretended for a name of fixed reputation, objections are raised against those very qualities by which that great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 594 pages
...Charge to Peter." " Here," says he, " are twelve upright figures ; what a pity it is that Raffaelle was not acquainted with the pyramidal principle !...at the same time that great admiration is pretended for a name of fixed reputation, objections are raised against those very qualities by which that great... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...Charge to Peter. ' Here,' says he, ' are twelve upright figures ; what a pity it is that Raffaelle was not acquainted with the pyramidal principle !...observations, which, I suppose, you are now able to contiuue by yourself. It is curious to observe, that, at the same time that great admiration is pretended... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 378 pages
...the standing figures. Indeed," added he, " I have often lamented that so great a genius as Raflfaelle had not lived in this enlightened age, since the art...at the same time that great admiration is pretended for a name of fixed reputation, objections are raised against those very qualities by which that great... | |
 | 1823
...had not lived in this enlightened age, since the art has been reduced to principles, and bad had bis education in one of the modern academies; what glorious...at the same time that great admiration is pretended for a name of fixed reputation, objections are raised against those very qualities by which that great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 548 pages
...principles, and had had his education in one of the modern academies; what glorious works might we have then expected from his divine pencil!" I shall trouble...at the same time that great admiration is pretended for a name of fixed reputation, objections are raised against those very qualities by which that great... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 324 pages
...Raffaelle had not lived in this enlightened age, since the art has been reduced to principles, and had his education in one of the modern academies;...might we then have expected from his divine pencil 1" I shall trouble you no longer with my friend's observations, which, I suppose, you are now able... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...principle ! He would then have contrived the figures in the middle to have been on higher grounds, or the figures at the extremities stooping or lying,...at the same time that great admiration is pretended for a name of fixed reputation, objections are raised against those very qualities by which that great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 488 pages
...principles, and had had his education in one of the modern academies ; what glorious works might we have then expected from his divine pencil !" I shall trouble...at the same time that great admiration is pretended for a name of fixed reputation, objections are raised against those very qualities by which that great... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 pages
...Raffaelle had not lived in this enlightened age, since the art has been reduced to principles, and had his education in one of the modern Academies ;...the same time that, great admiration is pretended for a name of fixed reputation, objections are raised against those very qualities by which that great... | |
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