 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...dictated by vanity and incited by voluptuousness, seldom procures ultimately either applause or pleasure. It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art, to imitate native; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation:... | |
 | Vassilis Lambropoulos, David Neal Miller - 1987 - 552 pages
...fiction,' in Rambler No. 4, 1750 ( The Works of Samuel Johnson, ed. Arthur Murphy, London, 1824, IV, 23): 'It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art, to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation,' etc. For a... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 pages
...most to be employed; as a diamond, though it cannot be made, may be polished by art, and placed in such a situation as to display that lustre which before...greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation: greater care... | |
 | Roy Porter - 1997 - 304 pages
...with mankind. Accident, as much as passion, was the unfortunate preoccupation of this type of book. It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art, to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature, which are most proper for imitation: greater care... | |
 | Walter F. Greiner, Fritz Kemmler - 1997 - 282 pages
...most to be employed: as a diamond, though it cannot be made, may be polished by art, and placed in such a situation, as to display that lustre which before was buried among common stones. 60 It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art, to imitate nature; but it is necessary... | |
 | Roy Porter - 1997 - 304 pages
...with mankind, Accident, as much as passion, was the unformnate preoccupation of this type of hook. It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art, to imitate namre: hut it is necessary to distinguish those parts of namre, which are most proper for imitation:... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - 2000 - 322 pages
...most to be employ'd; as a diamond, though it cannot be made, may be polished by art, and placed in such a situation, as to display that lustre which before was buried among common stones. It is therefore not a sufficient vindication of a character, that it is drawn as it appears, for many characters... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2000 - 972 pages
...to be taken, that when the choice is unrestrained, the best examples only should be exhibited . . . It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art, to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature, which are mosr proper for Imitation. . . . (Rambler,... | |
 | Richard H. Schmidt - 2002 - 364 pages
...O Lord, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen. on writing for The Rambler (1750) The excellency of art It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation: greater care... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pages
...however, awakens his concern for the moral impact of the form that was to become the English novel, for: "It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art, to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature, which are most proper for imitation: greater care... | |
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It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature ; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation : greater care is still required in representing life, which is so often discoloured... 
