Fugitive Pieces, on Various Subjects, Volume 1R. and J. Dodsley, 1761 - English essays |
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... Reason to be given ; that " every body can fee , and very few can judge ; " the Beauties of Co- lor requiring much lefs of Judgment , than either of the other Three . I shall therefore have much less to fay of it , than of each of the ...
... Reason to be given ; that " every body can fee , and very few can judge ; " the Beauties of Co- lor requiring much lefs of Judgment , than either of the other Three . I shall therefore have much less to fay of it , than of each of the ...
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... Reason why these Colors please so much is not only their natural Liveliness , nor the much great- er Charms they obtain from their being properly blended together , but is alfo owing in fome Degree to the Idea they carry with them of ...
... Reason why these Colors please so much is not only their natural Liveliness , nor the much great- er Charms they obtain from their being properly blended together , but is alfo owing in fome Degree to the Idea they carry with them of ...
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... Reason , that the best Landscape - painters have been generally obferved to chuse the autumnal Part of the Year for their Pieces , rather than the Spring . They prefer the Variety of Shades and Colors , though in their Decline , to all ...
... Reason , that the best Landscape - painters have been generally obferved to chuse the autumnal Part of the Year for their Pieces , rather than the Spring . They prefer the Variety of Shades and Colors , though in their Decline , to all ...
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... Reason , that when one is obferving the finest Works of the Artists at Rome ( where there is ftill the noblest Collection of any in the World , ) one feels the Mind more ftruck and more charmed with the capital Statues , than with the ...
... Reason , that when one is obferving the finest Works of the Artists at Rome ( where there is ftill the noblest Collection of any in the World , ) one feels the Mind more ftruck and more charmed with the capital Statues , than with the ...
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... Reason , no Doubt , is , that they keep to Nature ; whereas our Ladies choose to be shaped by the Staymaker . THE Two other conftituent Parts of Beauty , are , Expreffion and Grace : The former of which , is common to all Perfons and ...
... Reason , no Doubt , is , that they keep to Nature ; whereas our Ladies choose to be shaped by the Staymaker . THE Two other conftituent Parts of Beauty , are , Expreffion and Grace : The former of which , is common to all Perfons and ...
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