 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive anyadvantage from possessing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...of a superior kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other. If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether...mechanical merit, I should not scruple to say they would not only receive no advantage, but would lose, in a great measure, the effect which they now have on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lowei order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from professing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 430 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Anaelo, whether they would receive any advantage from professing... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...a superior kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other. " If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether...mechanical merit, I should not scruple to say they would not only receive no advantage, but would lose, in a great measure, the effect which they now have on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 612 pages
...of a superior kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other. If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether...mechanical merit, I should not scruple to say they would net only receive no advantage, but would lose, in a great measure, the effect which they now have on... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 378 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. ' If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 690 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...obtained but by departing from the other. ' If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage from possessing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 548 pages
...in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind,...cannot be obtained but by departing from the other. cc If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo, whether they would receive any advantage... | |
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... minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of Nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly... 
