 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 Seiten
...aesthetics, and affected both the painting and the poetry of the period.] No. 82. NOVEMBER 10, 1759 DISCOURSING in my last letter on the different practice...nature." I was led into the subject of this letter by endeavoring to fix the original cause of this conduct of the Italian masters. If it can be proved that... | |
 | George Morey Miller - 1913 - 176 Seiten
...Painting (79) and on the True Idea of Beauty (82) contain two principles of importance, the exaltation of "the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal ^ nature"6 (only Johnson's generalized nature), and an attack Utoswell's Life, I. 179. 1 Life, I. 62.... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1920 - 482 Seiten
...forms, the representation of which, in Reynolds's eyes, is the aim of the ' grand style ' : The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great, and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
 | 1922 - 766 Seiten
...it will be recalled, Reynolds prefers the Italian painters to the Dutch, because the Italians attend "only to the invariable, the great and general ideas...which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch ... to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail."4*" The opposition of the invariable... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1924 - 1016 Seiten
..."particular" may be clearly shown by the following passage from the Idler papers: The Italian [school] attends only to the invariable, the great and general...which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1924 - 482 Seiten
...forms, the representation of which, in Reynolds's eyes, is the aim of the ' grand style ' : The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great, and general...ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature ; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say,... | |
 | 1819 - 788 Seiten
...imitation. The enlightened angler docs not condescend to imitate specifically the detail of things — he attends only to the invariable, the great, and general ideas which are inherent in nature. He throws his fly lightly and with elegance on the surface of the glittering waters,... | |
 | Christopher Sten - 1991 - 372 Seiten
...contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other. The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great, and general...which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth, and a minute exactness in the detail, as 1 may say of... | |
 | John Dixon Hunt - 1992 - 414 Seiten
...composition."49 It is what Reynolds, writing in The Idler in 1759, identified as the Italian style, which attends only to the invariable, the great and general...which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature: the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the details, I may say, of Nature,... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 Seiten
...which cannot subsist together, and which destrov the efficacy ol each other. The Italian attends onlv to the invariable, the great, and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I mav sav, ol... | |
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The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident.... 
