 | Books and bookselling - 1787 - 512 pages
...illuilrate this principle by a parallel from other arts, 1 fhall now produce fome inftances to fliew that they, as well as our own art, renounce the narrow...nature, and the narrow theories derived from that miftaken principle ; and apply to that reafon only which informs us, not what imitation is, a natural... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...whom it is received. An ignorant uneducated man may, like Apelles's critick, be a competent judge of the truth of the representation of a sandal; or to...that reason only which informs us not what imitation is, — a natural representation of a given object, — but what it is natural for the imagination... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - Drawing - 1817 - 928 pages
...must deserve the attention of the enlightened part of mankind : I mean those only who are taught to renounce the narrow idea of nature, and the narrow theories derived from that mistaken principle of copying her servilely, and in the detail. In the higher parts of both poetry and painting a servile... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 440 pages
...whom it is received. An ignorant uneducated man may, like Apelles's critick, be a competent judge of the truth of the representation of a sandal; or to...that reason only which informs us not what imitation is, — a natural representation of a given object, — but what it is natural for the imagination... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art, English - 1819 - 446 pages
...whom it is received. An ignorant uneducated man may, like Apelles's critick, be a competent judge of the truth of the representation of a sandal; or to...that reason only which informs us not what imitation is, — a natural representation of a given object, — but what it is natural for the imagination... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 324 pages
...like Moliere's old woman, may decide upon what is nature, 'in regard to comic humour ; but a critic in the higher style of art, ought to possess the same...illustrate this principle by a comparison with other arts, 1 shall now produce some instances to show, that they, as well as our own art, renounce ; the narrow... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - Agriculture - 1825 - 892 pages
...must deserve the attention of the enlightened part of mankind : I mean those only who are taught to renounce the narrow idea of nature, and the narrow theories derived from that mistaken principle of copying her servilely, and in the detail. In the higher parts of both ppetry and painting a servile... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 pages
...like Moliere's old woman, may decide upon what is nature, in regard to comic humour ; but a critic in the higher style of art ought to possess the same...that reason only which informs us not what imitation is, — a natura* representation of a given object, — but what it is natural for the imagination... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1835 - 514 pages
...like Moliere's old woman, may decide upon what is nature, in regard to comic humour ; but a critic in the higher style of art ought to possess the same...that reason only which informs us not what imitation is, — a natura' representation of a given object, — but what it is natural for the imagination... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Artists - 1824 - 318 pages
...like Moliere's old woman, may decide upon what is nature, in regard to comic humour ; but a critic in the higher style of art ought to possess the same...that reason only which informs us not what imitation is, — a natural representation of a given object, — but what it is natural for the imagination... | |
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I shall now produce some instances to show, that they, as well as our own art, renounce the narrow idea of nature, and the narrow theories derived from that mistaken principle, and apply to that reason only which informs us not what imitation is— a... 
