 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Painters - 1846 - 506 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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1856 - 422 pages
...once more in our native country." • * No. 82. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1759. "TO THE IDLER. " SIR, " DISCOURSING in my last letter on the different practice...nature.' " I was led into the subject of this letter by endeavoring to fix the original cause of this conduct of the Italian masters. If it can be proved that... | |
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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.... 
