 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1887 - 330 pages
...be said to be the ebullition of genius; but at least he had this merit, that he never was insipid ; and whatever passion his works may excite, they will...contempt. What I have had under consideration is the suUimest style, particularly that of Michel Angelo, the Homer of Painting. Other kinds may admit of... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1889 - 638 pages
...be said to be the ebullitions of genius ; but at least he hod this merit, that he never was insipid, and whatever passion his works may excite, they will...consideration is the sublimest style, particularly that of Michael Angelo, the Homer of painting. Other kinds may admit of this naturalness, which of the lowest... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 488 pages
...be said to be the ebullitions of genius ; but at least he had this merit, that he never was insipid, and whatever passion his works may excite, they will...consideration is the sublimest style, particularly that of Michael Angelo, the Homer of painting. Other kinds may admit of this naturalness, which of the lowest... | |
 | John Ruskin - English literature - 1894 - 476 pages
...be said to be the ebullitions of genius ; but at least he had this merit, that he never was insipid, and whatever passion his works may excite, they will...consideration is the sublimest style, particularly that of Michael Angelo, the Homer of painting. Other kinds may admit of this naturalness, which of the lowest... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1894 - 424 pages
...genins ; but at least he had this merit, that he never was insipid, and whatever passion his work* may excite, they will always escape contempt. "What...consideration is the sublimest style, particularly that of Michael Angelo, the Homer of jointing. Other kind* may admit of this naturalness, which of the lowest... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 450 pages
...be said to be the ebullitions of genius; but at least he had this merit, that he never was insipid, and whatever passion his works may excite, they will...consideration is the sublimest style, particularly that of Michael Angelo, the Homer of painting. Other kinds may admit of this naturalness, which of the lowest... | |
 | Ida Maria Street - Aesthetics - 1901 - 484 pages
...be said to be the ebullitions of genius ; but at least he had this merit, that he never was insipid, and whatever passion his works may excite, they will...consideration is the sublimest style, particularly that of Michael Angelo, the Homer of painting. Other kinds may admit of this naturalness, which of the lowest... | |
 | John Ruskin - English essays - 1908 - 372 pages
...be said to be the ebullitions of genius; but at least he had this merit, that he never was insipid; and whatever passion his works may excite, they will...consideration is the sublimest style, particularly that of Michael Angelo, the Homer of painting. Other kinds may admit of this naturalness, which of the lowest... | |
 | John Ruskin - English essays - 1908 - 372 pages
...be said to be the ebullitions of genius; but at least he had this merit, that he never was insipid; and whatever passion his works may excite, they will...consideration is the sublimest style, particularly that of Michael Angelo, the Homer of painting. Other kinds may admit of this naturalness, which of the lowest... | |
 | John Henry Fowler - English essays - 1908 - 156 pages
...genius ; but at least he had this merit, that he never was insipid ; and whatever passion his works 30 may excite, they will always escape contempt. What...consideration is the sublimest style, particularly that of Michael Angela, the Homer of Painting. Other kinds may admit of this naturalness, which of the lowest... | |
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Such faults may be said to be the ebullitions of genius ; but at least he had this merit, that he never was insipid, and whatever passion his works may excite, they will always escape contempt. What I have had under consideration is the sublimest style,... 
