The Works of the Late Edward Dayes: Containing An Excursion Through the Principal Parts of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, with Illustrative Notes by E.W. Brayley; Essays on Painting; Instructions for Drawing and Coloring Landscapes; and Professional Sketches of Modern ArtistsMrs. Dayes, 1805 - 359 pages |
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... chiaro - oscuro , color , composition , Examples of ex- and figures , while his rocks are sublime , and grandly formed ; the whole accompanied with great freedom of penciling . The co- loring of Claude is fine , accompanied with a ...
... chiaro - oscuro , color , composition , Examples of ex- and figures , while his rocks are sublime , and grandly formed ; the whole accompanied with great freedom of penciling . The co- loring of Claude is fine , accompanied with a ...
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... chiaro - oscuro , must all have one tendency , or the picture can never form a complete whole . We need not wonder at that want of information in the higher walks of art which at present pervades society , if we consider the want of ...
... chiaro - oscuro , must all have one tendency , or the picture can never form a complete whole . We need not wonder at that want of information in the higher walks of art which at present pervades society , if we consider the want of ...
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... chiaro - oscuro , or color ; as is instanced in Claude's best pictures . But where a stronger emotion is to be raised , the images , forms , color , and light and shade , by possessing contrary properties , will conspire to excite ...
... chiaro - oscuro , or color ; as is instanced in Claude's best pictures . But where a stronger emotion is to be raised , the images , forms , color , and light and shade , by possessing contrary properties , will conspire to excite ...
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... chiaro - oscuro . An indif- ferent original composition will always be superior to one patched together with stolen materials . In arranging the materials of our picture , all that can be recom- mended is , to avoid regular forms in the ...
... chiaro - oscuro . An indif- ferent original composition will always be superior to one patched together with stolen materials . In arranging the materials of our picture , all that can be recom- mended is , to avoid regular forms in the ...
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... chiaro - oscuro , & c . We should be careful in mistaking tinsel for gold ; many who represent Kings , do it by a great display of ornaments , else make them strut and stare , or have recourse to a crown : even where the greatest ...
... chiaro - oscuro , & c . We should be careful in mistaking tinsel for gold ; many who represent Kings , do it by a great display of ornaments , else make them strut and stare , or have recourse to a crown : even where the greatest ...
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Page 197 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 259 - Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Page 141 - That cast an awful look below; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps. So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode; 'Tis now th...
Page 213 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Page 306 - The gloomy pine, the poplar blue, The yellow beech, the sable yew, The slender fir, that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.
Page 291 - Nods o'er the mount beneath. At every step, Solemn, and slow, the shadows blacker fall, And all is awful listening gloom around. These are the haunts of Meditation, these The scenes where ancient bards th...
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Page 289 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 203 - Of envied life ; though only few possess Patrician treasures or imperial state ; Yet Nature's care, to all her children just, With richer treasures and an ampler state, Endows at large whatever happy man Will deign to use them. His the city's pomp, The rural honours his. Whate'er adorns The princely dome, the column and the arch, The breathing marbles and the sculptur'd gold, Beyond the proud possessor's narrow claim, His tuneful breast enjoys.
Page 218 - I think we may safely say, that they differ in every species, yet that there are individuals, found in a great many species so differing, that have a very striking beauty. Now, if it be allowed that very different and even contrary forms and dispositions are consistent with beauty, it amounts...