 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...pictures," they would say, with an old writer, " is injurious to truth and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient...it doth so enter and penetrate the inmost affection as sometimes it overcomes the power of speech and oratory. There are diverse graces in it." Great teachers... | |
 | Archibald M'Kay - 1858 - 324 pages
...wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of Heaven — the most ancient and akin to Nature. It is of itself a silent work, and always of one and the same...it doth so enter and penetrate the inmost affection as sometimes it overcomes the power of speech and oratory. BEN JONSOS. IN the department of painting... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1889 - 206 pages
...artist in letters : — Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient,...sometimes it overcomes the power of speech and oratory. The summary history of ' picture,' or the art of painting, in which Jonson has given us his views on... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...Guesses at Truth. Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of Heaven, the most ancient...to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit. 4100 Ben Jonson : Timber ; or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter. All really... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...Guesses at Trutn. Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of Heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silsnt work, and always one and the same habit. 4100 Ben Jonson : Timber ; or, Discoveries Made Upon... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...De pictura. — Whosoever loves not picture is injurious 15 to truth and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient...done by an excellent artificer) as ™ sometimes it o'ercomes the power of speech and oratory. There are divers graces in it, so are there in the artificers.... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 204 pages
...pictura. — Wl^j^verjovgs, -BQt- picture is injurifms to truth- and all ibe-.sdsdetft -of— poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient...(being done by an excellent artificer) as sometimes it o'ercomes the power of speech and oratory. There are divers graces in it, so are there in the artificers.... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...De pictura. — Whosoever loves not picture is injurious 15 to truth and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient...affection (being done by an excellent artificer) as 20 sometimes it o'ercomes the power of speech and oratory. There are divers graces in it, so are there... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 218 pages
...De pictura. — Whosoever loves not picture is injurious 15 to truth and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient...affection (being done by an excellent artificer) as 20 sometimes it o'ercomes the power of speech and oratory. There are divers graces in it, so are there... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 228 pages
...penetrate the inmost affection (being done by an excellent artificer) as 20 sometimes it o'ercomes the power of speech and oratory. There are divers graces in it, so are there in the artificers. .sf -i, One excels in care, another in reason, a third in easiness, »''J a fourth in nature and grace.... | |
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Whosoever loves not picture, is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of Heaven, the most ancient, and most akin to Nature. It is itself a silent work, and always of one and the same habit. Yet it doth so enter and... 
