 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 pages
...of their art, and have raised it to its highest dignity, by exhibiting the general ideas of nature. On the whole, it seems to me that there is but one...poets, painters, moralists, or historians, which are tfuilt upon general nature, live for ever; while those which depend for their existence on particular... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - 340 pages
...* " On the whole it seems to me, said Sir Joshua Reynolds, with his usual justness of observation, that there is but one presiding principle which regulates...historians, which are built upon general nature, live forever ; while those which depend for their ex»Authority lends its assistance to regulate private... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - 340 pages
...On the whole it seems to roe, said Sir Jrshua Reynolds, •with his usual justness of observai ion, that there is but one presiding principle which regulates...painters, moralists, or historians, which are built upc;n gevieral nature, live forever ; while those which depend for their eat. Authority lends its assistance... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1812 - 500 pages
...may be said to have been consecrated by having stood the test of ages." Reynolds's Discourses. ciple which regulates and gives stability to every art....ever ; while those which depend for their existence upon particular customs and habits, a partial view of nature, or the fluctuation of fashion can only... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie - 1865 - 758 pages
...debases it. The concluding paragraph sums xip the argument. " On the whole," concludes the President, " it seems to me that there is but one presiding principle...customs and habits, a partial view of nature, or the fluctuations of fashion, can only be coeval with that which first raised them from obscurity. Present... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...The rules of navigation never steered a ship, nor the law of gravity never moved a planet. T. REID. The works, whether of poets, painters, moralists,...historians, which are built upon general nature, live forever; while those which depend for their existence on particular customs and habits, a partial view... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1878 - 992 pages
...like all false theories and systems will perish of in»"On the whole, it seems to me that there is one presiding principle which regulates and gives...every art. The works, whether of poets, painters, morahsts or historians, which are built upon general nature, live forever; while those which depend... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...The rules of navigation never steered a ship, nor the law of gravity never moved a planet. T. REID. The works, whether of poets, painters, moralists,...historians, which are built upon general nature, live forever; while those which depend for their existence on particular customs and habits, a partial view... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 pages
...of their art, and have raised it to its highest dignity, by exhibiting the general ideas of nature. On the whole, it seems to me that there is but one...historians, which are built upon general nature, live forever; while those which depend for their existence on particular customs and habits, a partial view... | |
 | Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower - 1902 - 362 pages
...generality ennobles, while particularity debases art. The President summed up his argument thus : " On the whole it seems to me that there is but one...painters, moralists, or historians, which are built on general nature, live for ever ; while those which depend for their existence on particular habits,... | |
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On the whole, it seems to me that there is but one presiding principle, which regulates and gives stability to every art. The works, ,whether of poets, painters, moralists, or historians, 'which are built upon general nature, live forever; while those... 
