| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 420 Seiten
...time the natural faculties of his mind were as remarkable as his industry ; at another he was only a signal instance of what well-directed diligence will do in a short time. Then again " he appears to have been the first who discovered the path that leads to every excellence... | |
| Matthew Pilkington - 1829 - 632 Seiten
...life. He was as remarkable for diligence and industry as for the natural faculties of the mind, and was a signal instance of what well-directed diligence will do in a short time. Vasari gives a long catalogue of painters and sculptors who formed their taste, and learned their art,... | |
| Matthew Pilkington - 1840 - 794 Seiten
...He was as remarkable for diligence and industry, as for the natural faculties of the mind, and was a signal instance of what welldirected diligence will do in a short time. Vasari gives a long catalogue of painters and sculptors who formed their taste, and learned their art,... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 318 Seiten
...applied. R. all the common concerns of life. He is, indeed, a signal instance of what well directed diligence will do in a short time; he lived but twenty-seven years ; yet in that short space he carried the art so far beyond what it had before reached, that he appears to stand alone as a model... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1844 - 484 Seiten
...time the natural faculties of his mind were as remarkable as his industry ; at another he was only a signal instance of what welldirected diligence will do in a short time. Then again " he appears to have been the first who discovered the path that leads to every excellence... | |
| Richard Duppa - 1846 - 596 Seiten
...afterwards arrived, -and may therefore be justly considered as one of the great fathers of modern art. He is a signal instance of what welldirected diligence will do in a short time; his life did not exceed twenty-seven years, yet in that short space he carried the art far beyond what... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1846 - 514 Seiten
...time the natural faculties of his mind were as remarkable as his industry ; at another he was only a signal instance of what welldirected diligence will do in a short time. Then again " he appears to have been the first who discovered the path that leads to every excellence... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 Seiten
...had mastered all the knowledge of his time; so had Homer. Raffaelle lived but twenty-seven years; and in that short -space carried the art so far beyond...reached, that he appears to stand alone as a model to his successors. There are instances to the contrary; but, generally speaking, the life of all truly... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 Seiten
...mastered all the knowledge of his time ; so had Homer. Raifaelle lived but thirty-seven years ; and in that short space carried the art so far beyond...reached, that he appears to stand alone as a model to his successors. There are instances to the contrary ; but, generally speaking, the life of all truly... | |
| 1851 - 490 Seiten
...will do in a short time : Leonardo. — Universal powers. — Invention of deep tones. — Cartoon. he lived but twenty-seven years, yet, in that short...appears to stand alone as a model for his successors. LEONARDO DA VINCI. Leonardo da Vinci was born in the year 1452, at the Castello di Vmci in the Vald'arno.... | |
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