 It is the lowest style only, of arts, whether of Painting, Poetry, or Musick, that may be said, in the vulgar sense, to be naturally pleasing. The higher efforts of those arts, we know by experience, do not affect minds wholly uncultivated. This refined...  The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Kt. Late President of the Royal ... - Page 119by Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819Full view - About this book
 | William Morris Colles, Henry Cresswell - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 368 pages
...Sir Joshua Reynolds remarks, " It is the lowest style only of arts, whether Painting, Poetry or Music that may be said, in the vulgar sense, to be naturally...we know by experience, do not affect minds wholly uncultured. This refined taste is the consequence of education and habit. We are born only with a capacity... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1916 - 794 pages
...result of both combined. I mean the spirit of a gentleman and the spirit of religion." — BURKE. " This refined taste is the consequence of education...are born only with a capacity of entertaining this refine~ mcnt, us we are born with a disposition tc recehe and obey all the rnles and regulations of... | |
 | Anthony Hecht - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 334 pages
...the arts, whether of Painting, Poetry, or Musick," observed Joshua Reynolds in his Discourses on Art, "that may be said, in the vulgar sense, to be naturally...we know by experience, do not affect minds wholly uncultivated."9 It may be claimed that the music of forms goes unheard in two senses. First, in that... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1813 - 752 pages
...the lowest style only of arts, whether painting, poetry, or musick, that may be said, in the vulyar sense, to be naturally pleasing. The higher efforts...experience, do not affect minds wholly uncultivated." SIR JOSJIUA REYNOLDS. 22.. The Seasons; composed by Joseph II:ivi!n, Was. D. adapted for rbica and... | |
 | 1831 - 740 pages
...lecturer already quoted *) "it is the lowest style only of arts, whether of painting, poetry, or music, that may be said, in the vulgar sense, to be naturally pleasing. The higher efforts of these arts, we know by experience, do not affect minds wholly uncultivated. This refined taste is the... | |
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