 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....  Select British Classics - Page 981803Full view - About this book
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 452 pages
...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, of... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...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, of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...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, of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...Italian and Dutch painters, I observed, that " the Italian painter attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent...of the Italian masters. If it can be proved that by tiiis choice they selected the most beautiful part of the creation, it will shew how much their principles... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...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 of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...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 of... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 440 pages
...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, English - 1819 - 446 pages
...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, of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...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 of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 430 pages
...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 of... | |
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