 | William Hazlitt - 1843 - 442 pagine
...the same, with this difference, ftnat;lhe''rhan'f.of 'genius is lost in the crowd of competitors,4' who would never have become such but from encouragement...and vulgarity, and proclaiming a Bartholomew-fair shew of fine arts, — " And fools rush in where angels fear to tread." The public taste is, therefore,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1843 - 450 pagine
...in the crowd of competitors, who would never have become such but from encouragement and example j and that the opinion of those few persons whom nature...and vulgarity, and proclaiming a Bartholomew-fair shew of line arts, — " And fools rush in where angels fear to tread." The public taste is, therefore,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1856 - 446 pagine
...factitious patronage would be most favourable to the full development of the greatest talents, and to the attainment of the highest excellence. The diffusion...and vulgarity, and proclaiming a Bartholomew-fair shew of fine arts, — " And fools rush in where angels fear to tread." The public taste is, therefore,... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - 582 pagine
...government which concern the common feelings and common interests of society, is by no means applicable to matters of taste, which can only be decided upon by the most refined understandings. The highest efforts of genius, in every walk of art, can never be properly understood by the generality... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - 592 pagine
...government which concern the common feelings and common interests of society, is by no means applicable to matters of taste, which can only be decided upon by the most refined understandings. The highest efforts of genius, in every walk of art, can never be properly understood by the generality... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1873 - 508 pagine
...government, which concern the common feelings and common interests of society, is by no means applicable to matters of taste, which can only be decided upon...feeling from ignorance and vulgarity, and proclaiming a Bartholomew-fairshow of the fine arts — " And fools rush in where angels fear to tread." The public... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 516 pagine
...government, which concern the common feelings and common interests of society, is by no means applicable to matters of taste, which can only be decided upon by the most refined understandings. The highest efforts of genius, in every walk of art, can never be properly understood by the generality... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 544 pagine
...government, which concern the common feeling* and common interests of society, is by no means applicable to matters of taste, which can only be decided upon...feeling from ignorance and vulgarity, and proclaiming a Bartholomew-fair-show of the fine arts — "And fools rush in where angeli fear to tread."1 ' The public... | |
 | Lucy Newlyn - 2000 - 432 pagine
...he took the sceptical view that 'The principle of universal suffrage ... is by no means applicable to matters of taste, which can only be decided upon by the most refined understandings'. Since 'The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste', public taste was... | |
 | Caroline Levine - 2003 - 264 pagine
...government, which concern the common feelings and common interests of society, is by no means applicable to matters of taste, which can only be decided upon by the most refined understandings." Hazlitt, Essays on the Fine Arts, 16. 5. It is one of Ruskin's assumptions that visual representation... | |
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The principle of universal suffrage, however applicable to matters of government which concern the common feelings and common interests of society, is by no means applicable to matters of taste, which can only be decided upon by the most refined understandings. 
