 ... by extreme old age. The poorest of men, as he observed himself, did not labour from necessity more than he did from choice. Indeed, from all the circumstances related of his life, he appears not to have had the least conception that his art was to...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Seite 181819Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 332 Seiten
...prevented by extreme old age. The poorest of men, as he observed himself, did not labour from necessity more than he did from choice. Indeed, from all the...to the efficacy of native genius and inspiration. I have no doubt that he would have thought it no disgrace that it should be said of him, as he himself... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 Seiten
...prevented by extreme old age. The poorest of men, as he observed himself, did not labour from necessity, more than he did from choice. Indeed, from all the...to the efficacy of native genius and inspiration. I have no doubt that he would have thought it no disgrace that it should be said of him, as he himself... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 Seiten
...prevented by extreme old age. The poorest of men, as he observed himself, did not labour from necessity, more than he did from choice. Indeed, from all the...to the efficacy of native genius and inspiration. I have no doubt that he would have thought it no disgrace that it should be said of him, as he himself... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1905 - 564 Seiten
...prevented by extreme old age. The poorest of men, as he observed himself, did not labour from necessity, more than he did from choice. Indeed, from all the...to the efficacy of native genius and inspiration. I have no doubt that he woujd have thought it no disgrace, that it should be said of him, as he himself... | |
 | Ernest Govett - 1919 - 470 Seiten
...which some call the result of natural powers. On another occasion Reynolds observed of Michelangelo6 : He appears not to have had the least conception that...to the efficacy of native genius and inspiration. Gibbon said that Reynolds agreed with Dr. Johnson in denying all original genius, any natural propensity... | |
 | Herbert Read - 2002 - 240 Seiten
...greatest success in art cannot be obtained by any other means than great labour. Even Michelangelo, who 'might make the greatest pretensions to the efficacy of native genius and inspiration' — even Michelangelo, as he himself said of Raphael, 'did not possess his art from nature, but by... | |
 | Herbert Read - 2002 - 244 Seiten
...greatest success in art cannot be obtained by any other means than great labour Even Michelangelo, who 'might make the greatest pretensions to the efficacy of native genius and inspiration'—even Michelangelo, as he himself said of Raphael, 'did not possess his art from nature,... | |
 | Charles A. Cramer - 2006 - 196 Seiten
...Reynolds asserts that Michelangelo himself rejected the transcendent discourse on art: [Michelangelo] appears not to have had the least conception that his art was to be acquired by any other means than by great labour; and yet he, of all men that ever lived, might make the greatest pretensions to the... | |
 | 1839 - 348 Seiten
...prevented by extreme old age. The poorest of men, as he observed himself, did not labour from necessity, more than he did from choice. Indeed, from all the...to the efficacy of native genius and inspiration. I have no doubt that he would have thought it no disgrace, that it should be said of him, as he himself... | |
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