 | English literature - 1798 - 484 pages
...incorreftnels, er any other defect, I thought it one of the coldelt and molt infipid Pictures I creí behtld. The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always...Genius, to attract attention, and enforce admiration, in fpite of all their faults. It is owing to this fatcinating power, that the performances of thole Painters... | |
 | English literature - 1798 - 554 pages
...incorrectnefs, or any other defect, I thought it one of the ccldelt and riK.it intipid Pictures I ever beheld. The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always attendant on Genius, to attract attention, ar.d enforce admiration, in i'pite of all their faults. It is owing to this fatcinating power, that... | |
 | English literature - 1798 - 752 pages
...incorrcdtnefs, or any other defeft, I thought it one of the coldeft and moft infipid piftures I ever beheld. " The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always attendant on genius, to atiraft attention, and enforce admiration, in fpite of all their faults. It is owing to this fafcinating... | |
 | 1798 - 756 pages
...any other defeet, I thought it one of the coldeft and mott inüpid piflures I ill« f ever beheld. " The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always attendant on genius, to attraft attention, and enforce admiration, in fpite of all their faults. It is owing to this fafcinating... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 1008 pages
...correctnefs, or any other defect, I thought it one of the coldeft and moft infipid pictures I ever beheld. " The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always attendant on genius to attraft attention and enforce admiration, in fpite of all their faults. It is owing to this fafcinating... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 452 pages
...incorrectness or any other defect, I thought it one of the coldest and most insipid pictures I ever beheld. The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always...faults. It is owing to this fascinating power that VOL. II. EE o/" t!ie performances of those painters with which he is surrounded, though they have perhaps... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...incorrectness or any other defect, I thought it one of the coldest and most insipid pictures I ever beheld. The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always...faults. It is owing to this fascinating power that VOL. ii. EE e performances of those painters with . which he is surrounded, though they have perhaps... | |
 | History - 1807 - 800 pages
...corrcctnefs, or any other defcrt, I thought it one of the coldefl and moil infipid pictures I ever beheld. " The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always...genius to attract attention and enforce admiration, in fpite of all their faults. It is owing to this fafcinating power that the performances of thofe painters... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1809 - 442 pages
...to this fascinating power that VOL. II. ES CHA»Ac. the performances of those painters with RuB*™, which he is surrounded, though they have perhaps fewer...spiritless, tame, and insipid ; such as the altar-pieces of Grayer, Schut, Segers, Huysum, Tyssens, Van Balen, and the rest. They are done by men whose hands,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 538 pages
...incorrectness, or any other defect, I thought it one of jhe coldest and most insipid pictures I ever heheld. " The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always...and insipid ; such as the altar-pieces of Crayer, Schutz, Segers, Heysens, Tysens, Van Bulen, and the rest. They are done by men whose bands, and indeed... | |
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The works of Rubens have that peculiar property always attendant on genius, to attract attention, and enforce admiration in spite of all their faults. It is owing to this fascinating power that the performances of those painters with which he is surrounded,... 
