 | Cynthia Wall - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 331 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... | |
 | Bernard Schweizer - Literary Collections - 2006 - 348 pages
...writings as well, such as the letters written for the Idler on his 1750-52 voyage to Italy: 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... | |
 | Ruth Bernard Yeazell - Art and literature - 2008 - 294 pages
...early letter to the Idler (1759) to classify the Italians and the Dutch in these terms: 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... | |
 | English philology - 1922 - 710 pages
...it will be recalled, Reynolds prefers the Italian painters to the Dutch, because the Italians attend "only to the invariable, the great and general ideas...which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch . . . to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail."4*0 The opposition of the invariable... | |
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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.... 
