 Nature is always great in design, but unequal in composition. She is an admirable colourist; and can harmonize her tints with infinite variety, and inimitable beauty: but is seldom so correct in composition, as to produce an harmonious whole. Either the...  The Wye tour, or Gilpin on the Wye - Page 27by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, William Gilpin - 1834 - 199 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1783 - 504 pages
...her' tints with infinite variety, and inimitable beauty :' bat is feldom fo correct in compofition, as to produce an harmonious whole. Either the foreground or the background, is difproportioned : or fome aukward line runs acrofs the piece : or a tree is ill-placed : or a bank... | |
 | William Gilpin - Aesthetics - 1789 - 214 pages
...and harmonizes tints with infinite variety, and beauty. But ihe is ieldom fb correct in competition, as to produce an harmonious whole. Either the foreground, or the background, is difproportioned: or fome awkward linp runs acrofs the piece : or a tree is ill-placed : or a bank is... | |
 | 1791 - 618 pages
...and harmonizes tints with infinite variety, and beauty. But ftie is feldom fo correft in compofition, as to produce an harmonious whole. Either the foreground, or the background, is difproportioned : or fome awkward line runs acrofs the piece: or a tree is ill-placed : or a bank is... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - English poetry - 1896 - 312 pages
...perspective and composition. He says that Nature is "great in design and she is an admirable colourist, and harmonizes tints with infinite variety and beauty;...is seldom so correct in composition as to produce a harmonious whole. Either the foreground or the background is disproportioned, or some awkward line... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - English poetry - 1896 - 312 pages
...perspective and composition. He says that Nature is "great in design and she is an admirable colourist, and harmonizes tints with infinite variety and beauty;...is seldom so correct in composition as to produce a harmonious whole. Either the foreground or the background is disproportioned, or some awkward line... | |
 | Architecture - 1991 - 102 pages
...... an admirable colourist; and can harmonize her tints with infinite variety, and inimitable beauty: [she] is seldom so correct in composition, as to produce...the background, is disproportioned: or some awkward line runs across the piece: or ะป tree is ill-placed ... or something, or other is not exactly as it... | |
 | Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - Authors and printing - 1996 - 258 pages
...admirable colourist; and can harmonize her tints with infinite variety, and inimitable beauty; but is seldom so correct in composition, as to produce an harmonious whole."" In these circumstances, the artist or the observer may legitimately intervene to correct the natural... | |
 | Linda L. Revie - History - 2003 - 223 pages
...admirable colourist; and can harmonize her tints with infinite variety, and inimitable beauty; but is seldom so correct in composition as to produce an harmonious whole. 18 After Simcoe had sketched Niagara's likeness, she climbed down the steep bank of the gorge with... | |
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