The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics (1809)
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834 · London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ... · leaf 185
a highpoetical conception, and do notseem fully to understand how verymuch indistinctness is the source ofsublimity. I think even the light-nings glimpse, and ihe rumblingroll of thunder, might be easilypainted and strongly characterised.Wheres my pencil? exclaimedshe, eagerly, a sublime subjectis… … You said just now, Miss,1 ob-served 1, (hat Gessnerwas a truegenius—what are the qualitiesj doyou think, that confer that title ? I think, replied she, as SirBrooke Boolhby observes, liUlcminds are fond of examining parts.To see things in the whole, to judgeof them in the great, requires ge-nius ;…
Fashion · Art, Decorative
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