| Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1767 - 366 pages
...being a more rare bird ; and he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from fome aflbciation of ideas of innocence that he always annexes to the...direction of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he fhall fix on, as a criterion of form, he will be continually contradicting himfelf,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...being a more rare bird ; and he who gives the preference fo the dove, does it from fome afibciation of ideas of innocence that he always annexes to the...direction of a line? or whatever other conceit of his imagination he fhall fix on as a criterion of form, he will be continually contradicting himfelf,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...being 3. more rare bird ; and he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from fome affociation of ideas of innocence that he always annexes to the...direction of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he fhall fix on as a criterion of form, he will be continually contradicting himfelf,... | |
| 1787 - 528 pages
...being a more rare bird; and lie who gives the preference to the dove, does it from lome aflbciation of ideas of innocence that he always annexes to the...gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direilion of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he (kill fix on as a criterion of... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 442 pages
...rare bird -, and he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from fome aflbciation of idea* pf innocence that he always annexes to the dove ; but...magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a Jine, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he fhall fix on as a criterion of form, he will... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 452 pages
...he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from some association of ideas of innocence which he always annexes to the dove ; but if he pretends...magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of aline, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall fix on, as a criterion of form, he will... | |
| sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 450 pages
...he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from some association of ideas of innocence which he always annexes to the dove ; but if he pretends...magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of aline, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall fix on, as a criterion of form, he will... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...more a more rare bird ; and he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from fome aflbciation of ideas of innocence that he always annexes to the...prove that this more beautiful form proceeds from a parti. cular gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction' of a line, or whatever other... | |
| English essays - 1803 - 222 pages
...being a more rare bird ; and he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from some association of ideas of innocence that he always annexes to the...magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, er whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall fix on, as a criterion of form, he will be continually... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1809 - 442 pages
...he who gives the preference to the dove, does it from some association of ideas of innocence which he always annexes to the dove; but if he pretends...direction of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall fix on, as a criterion of form, he will be continually contradicting himself,... | |
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