 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801
...nobler pitch. They present us with images more perfect than the life in any individual ; and we have the pleasure to see all the scattered beauties of...nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is alvvays the cause of pleasure. This foregoing remark, which gives the reason why imitation pleases,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808
...nobler pitch. They present us with images more perfect than the life in any individual ; and we have the pleasure to see all the scattered beauties of...of nature, the result of that view is admiration, ich is always the cause of pleasure. This foregoing remark, which gives the reason why imitation pleases,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809
...nobler pitch. They present us with images more perfect than the life in any individual and we have the pleasure to see all the scattered beauties of...result of that view is admiration, which is always th« cause of pleasure. This foregoing remark, which gives the reason why imitation pleases, was sent... | |
 | William Mason - 1811
...nobler pitch. They present us with images more perfect than the life in any individual, and we have the pleasure to see all the scattered beauties of nature united by a happy chemistry without its deformifies or faults. They are imitations of the passions which always move, and therefore consequently... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819
...nobler pitch. They present us with images more perfect than the life in any individual, and we hav« the pleasure to see all the scattered beauties of...passion. When we view these elevated ideas of nature, ihe result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure. This foregoing remark,... | |
 | George William D. Evans - 1835
...proportions " more perfect than the life in any individual;" and where he had " the pleasure of seeing all the scattered beauties of nature united, by a...happy chemistry, without its deformities or faults}." Next to the temple of Juno Lucina, or rather Juno I^acinia — for, if dedicated to that goddess at... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836
...nobler pitch. They present us with images more perfect than the life in any individual ; and we have the pleasure to see all the scattered beauties of nature united by a happy chymistry, without its deformities or faults. They are imitations of the passions, which always move,... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844
...and we have the pleasure to ses all the scattered heauties of nature united hy a hap* py chymistry, without its deformities or faults. They are imitations...consequently please ; for without motion there can he no delight, which cannot he considered hut as an active passion. When we view these elevated tdeas... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Henry William Beechey - 1852
...nobler pitch. They present us with images more perfect than the life in any individual, and we have the pleasure to see all the scattered beauties of nature united by a happy chemistry, without jts deformities or faults. They are imitations of the passions which always move, and therefore consequently... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859
...sec all the scattered heauties of nature united hy a hxp* py chymistry, without its deformities o* faults. They are imitations of the passions, which...consequently please ; for without motion there can he no delight, which cannot he considered hut as ait active passion. When we view these elevat»d ideas... | |
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Arts, as I said before, are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature, of that which is wrought up to a nobler pitch. They present us with images more perfect than the life in any individual ; and we have the pleasure to see all the scattered... 
