 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1778 - 346 pages
...as perfect and infallible Guides ; as fubjects for their imitation, not their eriticifm. I AM [ HJ I AM confident, that this is the only efficacious method of making a progrefs in the Arts ; and that he who fets out, with doubting, will find life finifhed, before he... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1796 - 426 pages
...Ъу them as perfeft and infallible guides; aé fubjefts for their imitation, not their criticifm. I am confident, that this is the only efficacious method of making a progrefs in the arts ; and that he who fets out with doubting, will find life rimmed before he becomes... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...great MASTERS, should be exacted from the young Students. That those models, which have passed through the approbation of ages, should be considered by them...that he who sets out with doubting, will find life fiaished before he becomes master of the rudiments. For it may be laid down as a maxim, that he who... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 430 pages
...great MASTERS, should be exacted from the young Students. That those models, which have passed through the approbation of ages, should be considered by them...the rudiments. For it may be laid down as a maxim, that he who begins by presuming on his own sense, has ended his studies as soon as he has commenced... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 476 pages
...great MASTERS, should be exacted from the young Students. That those models, which have passed through the approbation of ages, should be considered by them...the rudiments. For it may be laid down as a maxim, that he who begins by presuming on his own sense, has ended his studies, as soon as he has commenced... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1819 - 614 pages
...great MASTERS, should be exacted from the young Students. That those models, which have passed through the approbation of ages, should be considered by them...the rudiments. For it may be laid down as a maxim, that he who begins by presuming on his own sense, has ended his studies as soon as he has commenced... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1819 - 610 pages
...great MASTERS, should be exacted from the young Students. That those models, which have passed through the approbation of ages, should be considered by them...the rudiments. For it may be laid down as a maxim, that he who begins by presuming on his own sense, has ended his studies as soon as he has commenced... | |
 | James Northcote - Art - 1819 - 382 pages
...attention to the students, he particularly inculcated, that " those models which have passed through the approbation of ages, should be considered by them...subjects for their imitation, not their criticism ;" and he then expressed his confidence, that this was the only efficacious way of making any progress... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...models, .which have passed through the approbation of ages, should be considered by them as perfeet and infallible guides ; as subjects for their imitation,...the rudiments. For it may be laid down as a maxim, that he who begins by presuming on his own sense, has ended his studies as soon as he has commenced... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 332 pages
...models, .which have passed through the approbation of ages, should be considered by them as perfeet and infallible guides ; as subjects for their imitation,...the rudiments. For it may be laid down as a maxim, that he who begins by presuming on his own sense, has ended his studies as soon as he has commenced... | |
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I would chiefly recommend that an implicit obedience to the rules of art, as established by the practice of the great masters, should be exacted from the young students. That those models, which have passed through the approbation of ages, should be considered... 
