| Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 str.
...excellence. As the learned editor of his works has obferved, it is the office of a pictorefquc imagination to brighten and adorn good fenfe ; fo that to employ it only in defcription, is like childrens delighting in a prifm for the fake of its gaudy colours, which when frugally managed and... | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1792 - 434 str.
...A competition, in his opinion, as abfurd as a feaft made up of . fauces. The ufe of a pi£loresque imagination is to brighten and adorn good fenfe ; fo that to employ it only in Defcription, is like childrens delighting in a prifm for the fake af its gaudy colours; which when frugally bee roenigfte... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 472 str.
...called. A compofition, in his opinion, as abfurd as a feaft made up of fauces. The office of a pi&urefque imagination is to brighten and adorn good fenfe ; fo that to employ it only in defcriplion, is like children's delighting in a prifm for the fake of its gaudy colours ; which, when... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 str.
...compofition, in his opinion, as abfurd as a feaft made up of fauqes. The office of a pifturefque ima. gination is to brighten and adorn good fenfe ; fo that to employ it only in dcferlptlon, is like children's delighting in a prifm for the fake of its gaudy colours ; which, when... | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1839 - 566 str.
...called. A competition, in his opinion, as absurd as a feaft made up of fances. The ufe of a picturesque imagination is to brighten and adorn good fenfe; fo...the fake af its gaudy colours; which when frugally managed, and artifnlly difpofed, might be made to reprefent and illuftrate the nobleft objects in nature.... | |
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