 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 pages
...this reason I shall beg leave to lay before you a few' thoughts on this subject; to throw out some hints that may lead your minds to an opinion, (which...from the vulgar idea of imitation, as the refined civilised state in which we live, is removed from a gross state of nature ; and those who have not... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1835 - 514 pages
...For this reason I shall beg leave to lay before you a few thoughts on this subject; to throw out some hints that may lead your minds to an opinion, (which...deception, but that it is, and ought to be, in many poinrt of view, and strictly speaking, no imitation at all of external nature. Perhaps it ought to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Art - 1844 - 476 pages
...For this reason I shall beg leave to lay before you a few thoughts on the subject ; to throw out some hints that may lead your minds to an opinion (which I take to be the true one) that Painting is not only not to be considered as an imitation operating by deception, but... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Painters - 1846 - 506 pages
...For this reason I shall beg leave to lay before you a few thoughts on this subject; to throw out some hints that may lead your minds to an opinion, (which...from the vulgar idea of imitation, as the refined civilised state in which we live, is removed from a gross state of nature ; and those who have not... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1846 - 514 pages
...For this reason I shall beg leave to lay before you a few thoughts on the subject ; to throw out some hints that may lead your minds to an opinion (which I take to be the true one) that Painting is not only not to be considered as an imitation operating by deception, but... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 pages
...For this reason I shall beg leave to lay before you a few thoughts on the subject ; to throw out some hints that may lead your minds to an opinion (which I take to be the true one) that Painting is not only not to be considered as an imitation operating by deception, but... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 394 pages
...For this reason I shall beg leave to lay before you a few thoughts on this subject; to throw out some hints that may lead your minds to an opinion, (which...an imitation, operating by deception, but that it isj, and ought to be, in many points of view, and strictly speaking, no imitation at all of external... | |
 | William Purton - 1865 - 176 pages
...order to express character, the true object of imitation. When Sir Joshua says (Sis. 13) that "Painting is, and ought to be, in many points of view, and strictly...speaking, no imitation at all of external nature," I suppose he means, that it is not enough to copy. This is true; but to individualize, and to generalize,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1887 - 330 pages
...this subject; to throw out some hints that may lead your minds to an opinion (which I taki; to be tho truth), that Painting is not only to be considered...as far removed from the vulgar idea of imitation as tho refined civilised state in which we live is removed from a gross state of nature ; and those who... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1887 - 332 pages
...For this reason I shall beg leave to lay before you a few thoughts on this subject; to throw out some hints that may lead your minds to an opinion (which I take to be the truth), that Pfl.int.ing jg not only to be consider^ as an imitation^ operating by deception, but that it is, and... | |
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Painting is not only to be considered as an imitation, operating by deception, but that it is, and ought to be, in many points of view, and strictly speaking, no imitation at all of external nature. Perhaps it ought to be as far removed from the vulgar... 
