 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...with an unexpected cataftrophe.' The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that correfponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and...attention is totally engaged. What is done by painting is done at one blow; curiofity has received at once all the fatiifaction it can ever have. There are,... | |
 | Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...with an unexpected cataftrophe.' The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that correfponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and...attention is totally engaged. What is done by painting is done at one blow; curiofity has received at once all the (atiifadion it can ever have. There are,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...with an unexpected cataftrophe.' The painter's art ¡s more confined, and has nothing that correfponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and...leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. AVhat is done by painting is done at one blow; curiofity ha» received at once all the fatibfaction... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...extensive power than our art, exerts its influence over almost all the passions ; among those may l:e reckoned one of our most prevalent dispositions, anxiety...and dispositions which the Painter can satisfy and affect as powerfully as the poet : among those we may reckon our love of novelty, variety and contrast... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 476 pages
...in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. i The Painter's art is more confined, and has nothing...and dispositions which the Painter can satisfy and affect as powerfully as the poet : among those we may reckon our love of novelty, variety and contrast... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 430 pages
...the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected ca-» tastrophe. The Painter's art is more confined, and has nothing...curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it ean ever have. There are, however, other intellectual qualities and dispositions which the Painter... | |
 | England - 1843 - 844 pages
...the keeping the event suspended," he considers to he exclusively the province of poetry, and that " the painter's art is more confined, and has nothing...on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done hy painting must he done at one hlow ; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can have."... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1819 - 614 pages
...their being deceived, will have more tendency to obstruct their advancement, than even an enthusiastick confidence in the perfection of their models. But...and dispositions which the Painter can satisfy and affect as powerfully as the poet: among those we may reckon our love of novelty, variety, and contrast;... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1819 - 610 pages
...knowledge of those precepts in the mind, those operations of intellectual nature, — to which every tiling that aspires to please, must be proportioned and accommodated....and dispositions which the Painter can satisfy and affect as powerfully as the poet: among those we may reckon our love of novelty, variety, and contrast;... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...powerful, it may be safely told that there is still a higher tribunal,to which *.. * DISCOURSES II. and VI. those great masters themselves must submit, and to...and dispositions which the Painter can satisfy and affect as powerfully as the poet : among those we may reckon our love of novelty, variety, and contrast... | |
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What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have. There are, however, other intellectual qualities and dispositions which the Painter can satisfy and affect as powerfully as the poet:... 
