 | Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy - 1716 - 397 pages
...it, none j that nothing can be done without it, all agree. 7« nibil invita dices faciefoe Minerva. Without Invention a Painter is but a Copier^ and a Poet but a Plagiary of others. Both are allow'd fometimes to copy and tranjlate -, but, as our Author tells you, that is not the beft part... | |
 | Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy - 1783 - 213 pages
...obtain it, none; that nothing can be done without it, all agree: Tu nihil invita dices faciefve Minerva. Without Invention a Painter is but a Copier, and a Poet but a Plagiary of others. Both are allowed fometimes to copy and tranflate; but, as our Author tells you, that is not the beft part of their reputation.... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1798
...it, none; that nothing •can be done without it, all agree : Tu nihil invka dices facicsve Minerv2. Without invention a Painter is but a copier, and a Poet but a plagiary of others. Both sure allowed sometimes to copy and translate; but, as our author tells you, that is not the best part... | |
 | John Blair Linn - 1802 - 191 pages
...obtain it, none; that nothing can be done without it, all agree: In nihil invita dices faciesve Minerva. Without invention a painter is but a copier, and a poet but a plagiary of others. Dryden's Parallel between Poetry and Painting. Now rous'cl to rage she chills the soul with fear, To... | |
 | 1903
...called ' pictorial invention,' is the very pith and marrow of the plastic arts. As Dryden has said, ' Without invention a ' painter is but a copier, and a poet but a plagiary of others.' Turner meant his work to prove that he was not a copier but an inventor. The title ' Liber Studiorum... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809
...it, none; that nothing can be done without it, all agree : Tu nihil invitA dices faciesve Minerva. Without invention a Painter is but a copier, and a...not the best part of their reputation. " Imitators these Arts, as I said before, are not onlytrue imitations of nature, but of the best nature, of that... | |
 | William Mason - 1811
...obtain it, none ; that nothing can be done without it, all agree : Tu nihil invitfi dices faciesve MinervS. Without invention a Painter is but a copier,...Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle," says the Poet : or^t best, the keepers of cattle for other men : they have nothing which is properly their own ;... | |
 | William Mason - 1811
...; that nothing can be done without it, all agree : Tu nihil invita dices faciesve Minerv&. \Vithout invention a Painter is but a copier, and a Poet but...not the best part of their reputation. " Imitators arebut a servile kind of cattle," says the Poet : or at best, the keepers of cattle for other men :... | |
 | 1816
...characters altered by copiers and tranfcribers. j4adifr,ni One that imitates; a plagiary ; an imkator. — Without invention a painter is but a copier, and a poet but a plagiary of others. Drjd it. COPILOWATS, a large town of European Turkey, in Bulgaria. Lon. 27. 30. E. Lat. 4j. 40. N.... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819
...it, none ; that nothing can be done without it, all agree : Tu nihil invita dices faciesve Minerva. Without invention a Painter is but a copier, and a...you, that is not the best part of their reputation. u Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle/' says the Poet : or at best, the keepers of cattle for... | |
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Without invention, a painter is but a copier, and a poet but a plagiary of others. Both are allowed sometimes to copy, and translate ; but, as our author tells you, that is not the best part of their reputation. " Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle... 
