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Page 135 - PERIPHERY of a circle is its entire bounding line ; or it is a curved line, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre.
Page 137 - A cylinder of revolution is a cylinder generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one side as an axis.
Page 119 - In all these cases, observe, an intended unity must be the result of composition. A paviour cannot be said to compose the heap of stones which he empties from his cart, nor the sower the handful of seed which he scatters from his hand. It is the essence of composition that everything should be in a determined place, perform an intended part, and act, in that part, advantageously for everything that is connected with it.
Page 132 - I should be sorry, if what is here recommended, should be at all understood to countenance a careless or undetermined manner of painting. For though the painter is to overlook the accidental discriminations of nature, he is to exhibit distinctly, and with precision, the general forms of things.
Page 131 - ... that it only put them out." A painter with such ideas and such habits, is indeed in a most hopeless state. The art of seeing nature, or in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed. As for the power of being able to do tolerably well, from practice alone, let it be valued according to its worth.
Page 132 - A firm and determined outline is one of the characteristics of the great style in painting ; and let me add, that he who possesses the knowledge of the exact form which every part of nature ought to have, will be fond of expressing that knowledge with correctness and precision in all his works.
Page 125 - Thus in a tragedy, or in an epic poem, the hero of the piece must be advanced foremost to the view of the reader or spectator : he must outshine the rest of all the characters : he must appear the prince of them, like the sun in the Copernican system...
Page 145 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 126 - ... art of animating and dignifying the figures with intellectual grandeur, of impressing the appearance of philosophic wisdom, or heroic virtue. This can only be acquired by him that enlarges the sphere of his understanding by a variety of knowledge, and warms his imagination with the best productions of ancient and modern poetry.
Page 119 - Composition means, literally and simply, putting several things together, so as to make one thing out of them ; the nature and goodness of which they all have a share in producing. Thus a musician composes an air, by putting notes together in certain relations; a poet composes a poem, by putting thoughts and words in pleasant order ; and a painter a picture, by putting thoughts, forms, and colours in pleasant order.