 There may perhaps be too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense,...  The British Essayists;: Idler - Page 277by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 452 pages
...too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the .other produces what is full...thought, and I believe with reason, that, Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed ihose limits ; and I think I have seen figures by him, of which it was... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full...been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed .those limits ; and I think I have seen figures .by him, of .which it... | |
 | English essays - 1803 - 222 pages
...be too great an indulgence as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full...been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits ; and I think I have seen figures of him of which it was... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1809 - 442 pages
...too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full...last determine its limits. It has been thought, and"! believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits; and I think I have seen... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full...the passions, and good sense, but not common sense, roust at last determine its limits. It has been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full...thought, and I believe with reason,' that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits ; and I think I have seen figures of him, of which it was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...be too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full...intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but Hot common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought, and I believe with reason,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full...been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits ; and I think I have seen figures of him of which it was... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 440 pages
...too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full...been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes transgressed those limits ; and I think I have seen figures by him, of which it was... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art, English - 1819 - 446 pages
...too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full...passions and good sense, but not common sense, must at last'determine its limits. It has been thought, and I believe with reason, that Michael Angelo sometimes... | |
| |
