 To express the passions which are seated in the heart, by outward signs, is one great precept of the painters, and very difficult to perform. In poetry, the same passions and motions of the mind are to be expressed ; and in this consists the principal...  The Laws of Poetry - Page 212by Charles Gildon - 1721 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton - 1813 - 324 pages
...testimony of his excellencies : " To express the passions which are seated in the heart, by outward signs, is one great precept of the painters, and very difficult to perform. In poetry, the same passions and motions of the mind are to be expressed ; and in this consists the principal difficulty,... | |
 | Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy - Painters - 1716 - 504 pages
...the Beginning, or the End. To exprefs the Paffions which are feated on the Heart by outward Signs, is one great Precept of the Painters, and very difficult to perform. In Poetry, the fame Paffions and Motions of the Mind are to be exprefs'di and in this confifts the principal Difficulty,... | |
 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 pages
...The paflage is as follows, ' To exprefs the paffions which are feated on the heart by outward figns, is one great precept of the painters, and very difficult...very fame paffions, and motions of the mind are to be expreffed, and ia this confills the principal difficulty, as well as the excel* lency of that art.... | |
 | Thomas Otway - English drama - 1767 - 292 pages
...Authors concerning OTWAY and his Writings. TO exprefs the pajfion;, which are feated on the heart^ is one great precept of the Painters, and very difficult to perform. In poetry, the fame paj/ions and notions of the mind are to be expreficd; and in this confifls the principal difficulty,... | |
 | Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy - Art - 1783 - 248 pages
...]3eginning or the End. "To " To exprefs the paflions, which are featcd on the heart by outward figns," is one great precept of the Painters, and very difficult to perform. In Poetry the fame paflions and motions of the mind are to be expreffed ; and in this confifts the principal difficulty,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1798 - 394 pages
...beginning or the end. *' To express the passions, which are seated on the heart by outward signs," is one great precept of the painters, and very difficult to perform. In Poetry the same passions and motions of the mind are to be expressed ; and in this consists the principal difficulty,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...the beginning, or the end. To express the passions which are seated in the heart, by outward signs, is one great precept of the painters, and very difficult to perform. In poetry, the same passions and motions of the mind are to be expressed ; and in this consists the principal difficulty,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 670 pages
...the beginning, or the end. To express the passions which are seated in the heart, by outward signs, is one great precept of the painters, and very difficult to perform. In poetry, the same passions and motions of the mind are to be expressed ; and in this consists the principal difficulty,... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 392 pages
...the beginning or the end. " To express the passions, which are seated on the heart by outward signs," is one great precept of the painters, and very difficult to perform. In Poetry the same passions and motions of the mind are to be expressed ; and in this consists the principal difficulty,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 388 pages
...beginning or the end. " To express the passions, which are seated on the heart; by outward signs," is ene great precept of the painters, and very difficult to perform. In Poetry the same passions and rnotipns of the mind are to be expressed ; and in this consists the principal .difficulty,... | |
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