The Life and Writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal AcademyBarnes & Burr, 1860 - 369 pagine |
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Pagina 8
... poet to pass , and those who were near enough held out their hands for him to touch as he went along . Reynolds held out his , and had the honor of a gentle shake , of which he was ever after proud . This was one of the early anecdotes ...
... poet to pass , and those who were near enough held out their hands for him to touch as he went along . Reynolds held out his , and had the honor of a gentle shake , of which he was ever after proud . This was one of the early anecdotes ...
Pagina 11
... poets , was frequently present to the fancy of Rey- nolds ; and he longed to see with his own eyes the glories in art of which he heard so much . He desired to pay his homage to the princes of the profession , and profit , if possible ...
... poets , was frequently present to the fancy of Rey- nolds ; and he longed to see with his own eyes the glories in art of which he heard so much . He desired to pay his homage to the princes of the profession , and profit , if possible ...
Pagina 14
... and attention , be absolutely necessa- ry to enable men to comprehend and relish the nobler productions of the poet and the painter - then who has not judged by guess and admired by random some of the most glorious works 14 LIFE .
... and attention , be absolutely necessa- ry to enable men to comprehend and relish the nobler productions of the poet and the painter - then who has not judged by guess and admired by random some of the most glorious works 14 LIFE .
Pagina 29
... deficiency . He struck into a new and savage sort of composition , which was very striking . Sannazarius , the Italian poet , for the same reason , substituted fishermen for shepherds , and changed the scene to the 3 * LIFE . 29.
... deficiency . He struck into a new and savage sort of composition , which was very striking . Sannazarius , the Italian poet , for the same reason , substituted fishermen for shepherds , and changed the scene to the 3 * LIFE . 29.
Pagina 33
... poets ; they sometimes read their productions at his house , and were re- warded by his approbation , and occasionally by their portraits . Johnson was a frequent and a welcome guest ; though the sage was not seldom sarcastic and ...
... poets ; they sometimes read their productions at his house , and were re- warded by his approbation , and occasionally by their portraits . Johnson was a frequent and a welcome guest ; though the sage was not seldom sarcastic and ...
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Pagina 42 - The only dedication I ever made was to my brother, because I loved him better than most other men. He is since dead. Permit me to inscribe this Poem to you.
Pagina 43 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Pagina 35 - There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell, whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions, the other by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one Excellent.
Pagina 239 - ... due reward of his merit by the Wits of his time, who did not understand the principles of composition in poetry better than he ; and who knew little, or nothing, of what he understood perfectly, the general ruling principles of Architecture and Painting.
Pagina 73 - Michael Angelo's works have a strong, peculiar, and marked character : they seem to proceed from his own mind entirely, and that mind so rich and abundant, that he never needed, or seemed to disdain, to look abroad for foreign help. Raffaelle's materials are generally borrowed, though the noble structure is his own.
Pagina 139 - Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy, on the Distribution of the Prizes, December 11, 1786.
Pagina 89 - The mind is but a barren soil ; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.
Pagina 254 - Gainsborough's pictures, and which even to experienced painters appear rather the effect of accident than design ; this chaos, this uncouth and shapeless appearance, by a kind of magic, at a certain distance assumes form, and all the parts seem to drop into their proper places, so that we can hardly refuse acknowledging the full effect of diligence, under the appearance of chance and hasty negligence.
Pagina 29 - I will now add, that Nature herself is not to be too closely copied. There are excellencies in the art of painting beyond what is commonly called the imitation of Nature ; and these excellencies I wish to point out.
Pagina 83 - His talents of every kind — powerful from nature, and not meanly cultivated by letters — his social virtues in all the relations and in all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable societies, which will be dissipated by his death. He had too much merit not to provoke some jealousy, too much innocence to provoke any enmity. The loss of no man of his time can be felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow. "Hail! and farewell!