The Works of William Mason, M.A. Precentor of York, and Rector of Aston: The art of painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy. Notes by sir Joshua Reynolds. Mr Dryden's Preface. Mr Pope's epistle to Mr. Jervas. Essays on English Church musicT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 |
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... than blank verse , because it was devoid of all harmony of numbers . The beginning , which I shall here insert , is a sufficient proof of the truth of this assertion : This gentleman , a painter by profession , assumed for 10 PREFACE .
... than blank verse , because it was devoid of all harmony of numbers . The beginning , which I shall here insert , is a sufficient proof of the truth of this assertion : This gentleman , a painter by profession , assumed for 10 PREFACE .
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... harmony of shade and light . X Free o'er the limbs the flowing vesture cast , 265 The light broad folds with grace majestic placed ; 270 And as each figure turns a different way , Give the large plaits their corresponding play ; Yet ...
... harmony of shade and light . X Free o'er the limbs the flowing vesture cast , 265 The light broad folds with grace majestic placed ; 270 And as each figure turns a different way , Give the large plaits their corresponding play ; Yet ...
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William Mason. Which mildly mixing every social dye , Unites the whole in loveliest harmony . h When small the space , or pure the ambient air , Each form is seen in bright precision clear ; But if thick clouds that purity deface , If ...
William Mason. Which mildly mixing every social dye , Unites the whole in loveliest harmony . h When small the space , or pure the ambient air , Each form is seen in bright precision clear ; But if thick clouds that purity deface , If ...
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... harmony : Few in their parts , yet those distinct and great ; Your Colouring boldly strong , yet softly sweet . b Know , he that well begins has half achiev'd His destin'd work . Yet late shall be retriev'd Quæque dabunt formæ , temerè ...
... harmony : Few in their parts , yet those distinct and great ; Your Colouring boldly strong , yet softly sweet . b Know , he that well begins has half achiev'd His destin'd work . Yet late shall be retriev'd Quæque dabunt formæ , temerè ...
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... be too principal . The harmony of composition requires that the inferior cha- racters bear some proportion , according to their several stations , to the hero of the work . This rule , as enforced by Fresnoy , may be [ 101 ]
... be too principal . The harmony of composition requires that the inferior cha- racters bear some proportion , according to their several stations , to the hero of the work . This rule , as enforced by Fresnoy , may be [ 101 ]
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Page 314 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Page 208 - This, says my author, is the gift of Jupiter; and, to speak in the same heathen language, we call it the gift of our Apollo : not to be obtained by pains or study, if we are not born to it; for the motions which are studied are never so natural as those which break out in the height of a real passion. Mr Otway possessed this part as thoroughly as any of the Ancients or Moderns. I will not defend every thing in his Venice Preserved?
Page 199 - ... 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 beauties of nature united by a happy chemistry, without its deformities or faults. They are imitations of the passions, which always move, and therefore consequently please ; for without motion there can be no delight, which cannot be considered but as an active passion....
Page 310 - The interim of unsweating themselves regularly and convenient rest before meat may both with profit and delight be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music, heard or learned either while the skilful organist plies his grave and fancied descant in lofty fugues or the whole symphony with artful and unimaginable touches adorn and grace the well-studied chords of some choice composer — sometimes the lute or soft organ-stop waiting on...
Page 209 - Otway possessed this part as thoroughly as any of the ancients or moderns. I will not defend every thing in his Venice Preserved; but I must bear this testimony to his memory, that the passions are truly touched in it, though, perhaps there is somewhat to be desired both in the grounds of them, and in the height and elegance of expression ; but nature is there, which is the greatest beauty.
Page 221 - THIS verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse This from no venal or ungrateful Muse. Whether thy hand strike out some free design, Where life awakes, and dawns at every line, Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass, And from the canvas call the mimic face...
Page 298 - Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies : She drew an angel down.
Page 355 - HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long, Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for Envy to look wan : To after age thou shalt be writ the man That with smooth air couldst humour best our tongue. Thou honour'st verse, and verse must lend her wing To honour thee, the priest of Phoebus...
Page 178 - And upon this account the noblest Poets and the best Orators, when they desire to celebrate any extraordinary beauty, are forced to have recourse to statues and pictures, and to draw their persons and faces into comparison...
Page 23 - RUE poetry the Painter's power displays : True Painting emulates the Poet's lays ; The rival sisters, fond of equal fame, Alternate change their office and their name ; Bid silent Poetry the canvass warm, 5 The tuneful page with speaking picture charm.