 The landscape painter has only to go there, and make a picture of it. It is already framed by nature to his hand ! I mention this the more, because that kind of grouping of objects which is essential to the picturesque, is not always to be found in the...  Notes of a Journey Through France and Italy - Page 391by William Hazlitt - 1826 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1832 - 438 pages
...to be found in the most sublime or even beautiful scenes. Nature (so to speak) uses a larger canvas than man ; and, where she is greatest and most prodigal...with effect into the circumscribed language of art." * The immense gorge of the Alps, called the Valley of the Rhone, is supposed to be the deepest in the... | |
 | 1832 - 342 pages
...to be found in the most sublime or even beautiful scenes. Nature (so to speak) uses a larger canvas than man; and, where she is greatest and most prodigal...with effect into the circumscribed language of art." * The immense gorge of the Alps, called the Valley of the Rhone, is supposed to be the deepest in the... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1832 - 272 pages
...to be found in the most sublime or even beautiful scenes. Nature (so to speak) uses a larger canvas than man; and, where she is greatest and most prodigal...with effect into the circumscribed language of art." * The immense gorge of the Alps, called the Valley of the Rhone, is supposed to be the deepest in the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 506 pages
...that kind of grouping or objects which is essential to the picturesque, is not always to be foiim: in the most sublime or even beautiful scenes. Nature...which is an indispensable preliminary before she can tx translated with effect into the circumscribed language of art. We supped at Martigny, at the Hotel... | |
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