 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 430 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 612 pages
...Dutch painters, 1 observed, that " the Italian painter attends only to the invariable, the great apd general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal...selected the most beautiful part of the creation, it will shew how much their principles arc founded on reason, and, at the same time, discover the origin of... | |
 | 1823
...observed, that " the Italian painter attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas which arc fixed and inherent in universal nature." I was led...selected the most beautiful part of the creation, it will shew how much their principles arc founded on reason, and, at the same time, discover the origin of... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 690 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth, and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 378 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth, and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 324 pages
...together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the iavariable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth, and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 pages
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1835 - 514 pages
...together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the in^ variable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
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The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident.... 
