 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 442 pages
...undulation of a curve, or direction of a Jine, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he fhall fix on as a criterion of form, he will be continually contradicting himfelf, and find at lafl that the great mother of nature will not be fubjected to fuch narrow rules*... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he fhall fix on as a criterion of form, he will be continually contradicting himfelf, and find at laft that the great mother of nature will not be fubjected to fuch narrow rules.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...undulation of a curve, or direction of a line? or whatever other conceit of his imagination he fhall fix on as a criterion of form, he will be continually contradicting himfelf, and find at laft that the great mother of nature will npt be fubjected to fuch narrow rules.... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 452 pages
...the whole world should agree, that yes and no should change their meaning;^ would then deny, and«o would affirm. Whoever undertakes to proceed further...prefer one part of her works to another, the most general, I believe, is habit and custom; custom makes, in a certain sense, white black, and black white... | |
 | English essays - 1803 - 222 pages
...proceeds from a particular gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, er whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall...prefer one part of her works to another, the most general, I believe, is habit and custom; custom makes, in a certain sense, white black, and black white... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1809 - 442 pages
...form proceeds from a particular gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall...not be (subjected to such narrow rules. Among the yarious reasons why we prefer one part of her works to another, the most general, I believe, is habit... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...form proceeds from a particular gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall...prefer one part of her works to another, the most general, I believe, is habit and custom ; custom makes, in a certain sense, white black, and black... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 420 pages
...form proceeds from a particular gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall fix on as a criterion of form, will be continually contradicting himself, and find that nature will not be su bjected to such' narrow... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Aesthetics - 1810 - 420 pages
...proceeds from a particular gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, of whatever other conceit of his imagination' he shall fix on as a criterion of form, will be continually contradicting himself, and find that nature will not be subjected to such? narrow... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 814 pages
...undulation of a curve, or direilion of a line,., or whatever other conceit of his imagination he (hall fix on as a criterion of form, he will be continually contradicting himfelf, and find at lail that the great mother Nature will not be fubjciled to fuch narrow rules.... | |
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... annexes to the dove ; but, if he pretends to defend the preference he gives to one or the other by endeavouring to prove that this more beautiful form proceeds from a particular gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line,... 
