The idler. PoemsPafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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... kind of imitation , painting must lose its rank , and be no longer considered as a liberal art , and sister to poetry , this imitation being merely mechanical , in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed best : for the ...
... kind of imitation , painting must lose its rank , and be no longer considered as a liberal art , and sister to poetry , this imitation being merely mechanical , in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed best : for the ...
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... kind , since one cannot be ob- tained but by departing from the other . If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo , whether they would receive any advantage from possessing this mechanical merit , I should not ...
... kind , since one cannot be ob- tained but by departing from the other . If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo , whether they would receive any advantage from possessing this mechanical merit , I should not ...
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... kind is the chief merit ; but in painting , as in poetry , the high- est style has the least of common nature . One may very safely recommend a little more enthusiasm to the modern painters ; too much is certainly not the vice of the ...
... kind is the chief merit ; but in painting , as in poetry , the high- est style has the least of common nature . One may very safely recommend a little more enthusiasm to the modern painters ; too much is certainly not the vice of the ...
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... kind , or deformed , who has seen only one of that species : this is as conclusive in regard to the human figure ; so that if a man , born blind , was to recover his sight , and the most beautiful woman was brought before him , he could ...
... kind , or deformed , who has seen only one of that species : this is as conclusive in regard to the human figure ; so that if a man , born blind , was to recover his sight , and the most beautiful woman was brought before him , he could ...
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... kind of deformity . To instance in a particular part of a feature : the line that forms the ridge of the nose is beautiful when it is straight ; this then is the central form , which is oftener found than either concave , convex or any ...
... kind of deformity . To instance in a particular part of a feature : the line that forms the ridge of the nose is beautiful when it is straight ; this then is the central form , which is oftener found than either concave , convex or any ...
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