An Inquiry Into the Beauties of Painting: And Into the Merits of the Most Celebrated Painters, Ancient and Modern |
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The rest are divided into parties , reasoning and disputing on their different
sentiments . It is easy to perceive , that the artist , intent on giving a full expreffion
to the sentiments and paffions becoming the occasion , considered the
disposition of ...
The rest are divided into parties , reasoning and disputing on their different
sentiments . It is easy to perceive , that the artist , intent on giving a full expreffion
to the sentiments and paffions becoming the occasion , considered the
disposition of ...
Page 148
... the various feelings and sentiments of the diciples , distreffed at their inability to
work a miracle in their masters abfence . ... better delineate the fine and delicate
movements of the mind , which have in them more of sentiment than passion .
... the various feelings and sentiments of the diciples , distreffed at their inability to
work a miracle in their masters abfence . ... better delineate the fine and delicate
movements of the mind , which have in them more of sentiment than passion .
Page 16
Loft : It is obvious from what I have said of its that the Couplet is not formed for
such gradations as these . On the contrary , from the fameness in its flow , every
sentiment , of what nature foever , comes equally recoma mended to the ear , and
of ...
Loft : It is obvious from what I have said of its that the Couplet is not formed for
such gradations as these . On the contrary , from the fameness in its flow , every
sentiment , of what nature foever , comes equally recoma mended to the ear , and
of ...
Page 100
If the Pathetic , as should seem from these proofs , must owe its effect to the
occasion which produced it ; the fame may be affirmed , in part , of the fublime : I
say in part , because though great sentiments , when produced in the Dramma ,
must ...
If the Pathetic , as should seem from these proofs , must owe its effect to the
occasion which produced it ; the fame may be affirmed , in part , of the fublime : I
say in part , because though great sentiments , when produced in the Dramma ,
must ...
Page 104
Hence , his sentiments spring from motives exquisitely fitted to produce them : to
this they owe that original spirit , that commanding energy , which overcome the
improbabilities of the scene ; and transport the heart in defiance of the ...
Hence , his sentiments spring from motives exquisitely fitted to produce them : to
this they owe that original spirit , that commanding energy , which overcome the
improbabilities of the scene ; and transport the heart in defiance of the ...
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| Title | An Inquiry Into the Beauties of Painting: And Into the Merits of the Most Celebrated Painters, Ancient and Modern |
| Author | Daniel Webb |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | R. and J. Dodsley, 1761 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 16 May 2007 |
| Length | 200 pages |
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