... works with the exactness of a Flemish pencil, those bold and daring strokes of fancy, those numbers so hazardously ventured upon, and so happily finished, the matter so compressed, and yet so clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet... Eighteenth Century Studies: Essays - Page 129by Francis Hitchman - 1881 - 386 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1804 - 572 pages
...and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect ? In short, it is not his least praise that he is never guilty of those...that he did not judge by a borrowed standard, or from rulej laid down by critics, but that he was qualified to do it by his ewn native powers, and his great... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 490 pages
...clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect? In short, it is not his least praise that he is never guilty of those...native powers, and his great superiority of genius. For he that wrote so much, and so fast, would through inadvertence and hurry, unavoidably have departed... | |
| William Hayley - 1806 - 484 pages
...and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect ? In short, it is not his least praise that he is never guilty of those faults as a writer, I which he lays to the charge of others. A proof that he did not judge by a borrowed standard, or from... | |
| William Cowper - 1809 - 486 pages
...and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect ? In short, it is not his least praise that he is never guilty of those faults as a writer, which he lays fo the charge of others. A proof that he did not judge by a borrowed standard^ or from rules laid down... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 pages
...clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect ? In short it is not his least praise, that he is never guilty of those...native powers, and his great superiority of genius V The superiority of his genius, indeed, is so obvious from even a slight perusal of his works, that... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pages
...sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect ? In short it is not his least praise, that lie - \" The superiority of his genius, indeed, is so obvious from even a slight perusal of liis works, that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pages
...clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect ? In short it is not his least praise, that he is never guilty of those...as a writer which he lays to the charge of others. Л proof that he did not judge by a borrowed standard, or from rules laid down by critics, but that... | |
| William Cowper, William Hayley - 1812 - 456 pages
...clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect? In short, it is not his least praise, that he is never guilty of those...native powers, and his great superiority of genius. For he that wrote so much, and so fast, would through inadvertence and hurry unavoidably have departed... | |
| William Hayley - 1812 - 464 pages
...clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect? In short, it is not his least praise, that he is never guilty of those...native powers, and his great superiority of genius. For he that wrote so much, and so fast, would through inadvertence and hurry unavoidably have departed... | |
| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on and yet with such a beautiful effect? In short, it is not his least praise, that he is never guilty of those...standard, or from rules laid down by critics, but that lie was qualified to do it by his own native powers, and his great superiority of genins. For he that... | |
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