The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan, Količina 261798 Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works, published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters; notices, or reviews of valuable foreign books; criticisms on new pieces of music and works of art; and the literary intelligence of Europe, &c. |
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Stran 567 - againlt him ; and as my head was full of the topics of my Treatife of Human Nature, which I was at that time compofmg, this argument immediately occurred to me, and I thought it very much gravelled my companion. But at laft he obferved to me, that it was
Stran 7 - To conclude; 1 will venture to repeat in favour of Rubens, what I have before faid in regard to the dutch fchool,—that thofe who cannot fee the extraordinary merit of this great painter, either have a narrow conception of the variety of art, or are led away by the affectation of approving nothing but what comes from the Italian
Stran 37 - •'But one, the lofty follower of the fun/ Sad when he fets, (huts up her yellow leaves. Drooping all night ; and when he warm returns, Points her enamour'd bofom to
Stran 6 - higheft degree, enabled him to reprefent whatever he undertook better than any other painter. His animals, particularly lions and horfes, are fo admirable, that it may be faid they were never properly reprefented but by him. His portraits rank with the
Stran 506 - of the work. The order of a good building is fomething. But if it be wholly declined from its perpendicular ; if the cement is loofe and incoherent; if the ftones are fcaling with every change of the weather, and the whole toppling on our
Stran 602 - rejected Supplication, patience goaded into fury, would have poured out all the length of the reins upon all the wrath which they had fo long reftrained. It might have been expected, that emulous of the glory of the youthful hero* in alliance
Stran 51 - incurred as great hazard of wounds or death: yet he has no motive to excite his ardour ; he is neither fubjecl to the commands of a general, nor dreads any penalties for neglect and difobedience ; he has neither
Stran 5 - be imputed that originality of manner by which he may be truly faid to have extended the limits of the art. After Rubens had made up his manner, he never looked out of himfelf for
Stran 567 - to evade the force of your arguments, and to retain my former opinion in the point controverted between us : but it is impoflible for me not to fee the ingenuity of your performance, and the great learning which you have difplayed againft me.
Stran 603 - of Vengeance that feeds them ; that he would let them loofe, in famine, fever, plagues, and death, upon a guilty race, to whofe frame, and to all whofe habit, order, peace, religion, and virtue, are alien and abhorrent. It was