 | Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy - 1783 - 248 pages
...there are ivho indifcreetly Jiray, Where purblind praftice only points the way. Practice is juftly called purblind, for practice, that is tolerable in...accompanies, and directs it, is never wholly wanting to a fedulous practice; but this goes but a little way with the Painter himfelf, and is utterly inexplicable... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1798 - 394 pages
...artis, 5 *' Seliget ex ilia tantum pulcherrima Pictor ; Quodque minus pulchrum, aut mendosum, corriget «Yet some there are who indiscreetly stray, Where purblind practice only points the way ; Who every theoretick truth disdain, -And blunder on mechanically vain. Some too there are, within... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 392 pages
...Quodque minus pulchrum, aut mendosum-,. corriget ipse Marte suo, formse Veneres captando fugaces. * Yet some there are who indiscreetly stray, Where purblind practice only points the way; Who every theoretick truth disdain, • And blundef on mechanically vain. Some too there are, within... | |
 | Edward Dayes, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1805 - 422 pages
...boundless store Are best to Art, and ancient Taste, allied, For ancient Taste those forms has best applied. Yet some there are, who indiscreetly stray Where purblind Practice only points the way, Who ev'ry theoretic truth disdain, And blunder on mechanically vain. MASON'S FRKSNOY, Ee From To attain... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 438 pages
...artis, '• Seliget ex ilia tantum pulcherrima Pictor ; Quodque minus pulchrum, aut mendosum, corriget * Yet some there are who indiscreetly stray, Where purblind practice only points the way ; Who every theoretick truth disdain, And blunder on mechanically vain* Some toothere are, within whose... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 438 pages
...has acquired a facility of drawing Nature correctly in its inanimate state. R. Note VIII. Verse 81. Yet some there are who indiscreetly stray, Where purblind...Painter himself, and is utterly inexplicable to others. fined, and what is worse, he will be uncertain. A degree of mechanical practice, odd as it may seem,... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 436 pages
...50 Seliget ex illa tantum pulcherrima Pictor ; Quodque minus pulchrum, aut mendosum, corriget ipse c Yet some there are who indiscreetly stray, Where purblind Practice only points the way ; Who every theoretic truth disdain, And blunder on mechanically vain. Some too there are, within whose... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 430 pages
...Seliget ex ilia tantiim pulcherrima Pictor ; Quodque minus pulchrum, aut mendosum, corriget ipse e Yet some there are who indiscreetly stray, Where purblind Practice only points the way ; Who every theoretic truth disdain, And blunder on mechanically vain. Some too there are, within whose... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 382 pages
...Quodque minus pulchrum, aut piendosum, corriget ipse Marte suo, formte Vcncres ciiptando tugaces. c Yet some there are who indiscreetly stray, Where purblind practice only points the way : Who every theoretick truth disdain, And blunder on mechanically vain. Some too there are, within... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 388 pages
...; Quodque minus pulchrum, aut mendosum, corriget ipse Marte suo, formae Veneres cnptando fugaces. c Yet some there are who indiscreetly stray, "Where purblind practice only points the way : "Who every theoretick truth disdain, And blunder on mechanically vain. Some too there are, within... | |
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Yet some there are who indiscreetly stray, Where purblind Practice only points the way. Practice is justly called purblind; for practice, that is tolerable in its way, is not totally blind: an 'imperceptible theory, which grows out of, accompanies, and... 
