 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1798 - 394 pages
...evil. As truth is the end of all our speculations, So the discovery of it is the pleasure of them; and since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure,...Painting, must of necessity produce a much greater; fpr both th.6se Arts, as I said before, are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...evil. As truth is the end of all our speculations, so the discovery of it is the pleasure of them ; and since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure,...lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, original in our minds, that it was intended to represent that original. " The fullest illustration... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...evil. As truth is the end of all our speculations, so the discovery of it is the pleasure of them ; and since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure,...lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, original in our minds, that it was intended to represent that original. " The fullest illustration... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...imitative of the nrst in Thrace. DrydfnImitatnrt are but a servile kind of cattle, says Uie poet. Id. Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure,...imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these art* are not only true imitation* of nature, but of the best... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 pages
...livelinets which the freedom of the pencil makes appear, may seem the liiing hand of nature. Id. Dufrrmou. Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it in poetry, or painting, must produce a much greater. /'/. That part of poetry must needs be best, which... | |
 | 1868 - 710 pages
...Fivt times twwty.five millet at a go, sir I" ROYAL ACADEMY. SECOND NOTICE. " Since a true knowlegc of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater, for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1868 - 724 pages
...Jive time* twenty-fire mill am » go, lir I" ROYAL ACADEMY. SECOND NOTICE. " Since a trne knowlege of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater, for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...evil. As truth is the end of all our speculations, so the discovery of it is the pleasure of them . and since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure,...painting, must of necessity produce a much greater : for hoth these arts, as I said hefore, are not only true imitations of nature, hut of the hest nature,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...evil. As truth is the end of all our speculations, so the discovery of it is the pleasure of them; and since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure,...in poetry or painting, must of necessity produce a idurh greater: for hoth these arts, as I ssaid hefore, are not only true imitations of nature, hut... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...imitation, and to no cause operating in the thing itself. BURKE : On the Sublime and Beautiful, 1756. Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure,...imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the be>t... | |
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... since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must of necessity produce a much greater: for both these arts . . . are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature, of that... 
