The Quarterly Review, Volume 50William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1834 |
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Page 33
... painted on the retina by the rays of light , which , reflected from the object , are refracted by the lens of the eye . But they have not yet been able to dis- cover by what process the presence of that image , if indeed it be painted ...
... painted on the retina by the rays of light , which , reflected from the object , are refracted by the lens of the eye . But they have not yet been able to dis- cover by what process the presence of that image , if indeed it be painted ...
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... painting , so often pointed out , is not more visible in any particular than in the irritable vanity of their professors ; and the feuds of Grub Street itself were for a long time not more implacable than those of our minor academi ...
... painting , so often pointed out , is not more visible in any particular than in the irritable vanity of their professors ; and the feuds of Grub Street itself were for a long time not more implacable than those of our minor academi ...
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... painting was indigenous , and may be traced through the various and natural periods of its growth and decline . In England , we had always imported both the art and its profes- sors ; and the Reformation had in fact begun , when we ...
... painting was indigenous , and may be traced through the various and natural periods of its growth and decline . In England , we had always imported both the art and its profes- sors ; and the Reformation had in fact begun , when we ...
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... painted immediately what nature taught , revived the honours and interest of the pencil . This innovator was Hogarth ... painter ; ' and that as a painter he had slender merit . ' 6 Now , ' exclaims his present biographer , ' what is the ...
... painted immediately what nature taught , revived the honours and interest of the pencil . This innovator was Hogarth ... painter ; ' and that as a painter he had slender merit . ' 6 Now , ' exclaims his present biographer , ' what is the ...
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... painting , the mere technical art of drawing and colouring pictures , in what artists call handling and composition . In these , surely Hogarth's merit , if not slender in itself , is so , compared with the transcendent qualities of his ...
... painting , the mere technical art of drawing and colouring pictures , in what artists call handling and composition . In these , surely Hogarth's merit , if not slender in itself , is so , compared with the transcendent qualities of his ...
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