 | Charles Robert Leslie - 1845 - 404 páginas
...ftill uninitiated in fome of the higher myfteries of art, and obliged at firft to take upon truft, much of that which was afterwards made clear to him by further ftudy and labour, what fhall we fay about the fincerity of thofe, who knowing fo much lefs, pretend... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 548 páginas
...no mean artist, wns still Lord Dudley to the Bislwp of Uandaff—Romc, and Remains of Ancient Art. uninitiated in some of the higher mysteries of his...afterwards made clear to him by further study and labor ; what shall we say about the sincerity of those who, knowing so much less, pretend to feel so... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 páginas
...to tJie, BisJiop of Llandaff— Eome, and Kemains of Ancient Art. uninitiated in some of the higlier mysteries of his art, and obliged at first to take...afterwards made clear to him by further study and labor ; what shall we say about the sincerity of those who, knowing so much less, pretend to feel so... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 622 páginas
...beauty, but scarce a ray has pierced the film that covers my eyes. Statues give me no pleasure, pictures very little ; and when I am pleased it is uniformly...pretend to feel so much more ? For my part, I think very much as I should think of anybody who, being just able to pick out the meaning of a Latin sentence,... | |
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... principles of the fine arts, to perceive and relish. You remember that Sir Joshua tells us that he was at first incapable of tasting all the excellence of Raphael and Michael Angelo. And if he, already no mean artist, was still... 