This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809 Excerpt: ...to imagine a better disposition of the subject, that we become sensible of the skill which he has used, or that we can fully appreciate the judicious simplicity of the arrangement which he has adopted. Every figure falls into its place as if by chance, The Passions protean empire to control, 185 And wield Expression's ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809 Excerpt: ...to imagine a better disposition of the subject, that we become sensible of the skill which he has used, or that we can fully appreciate the judicious simplicity of the arrangement which he has adopted. Every figure falls into its place as if by chance, The Passions protean empire to control, 185 And wield Expression's sceptre o'er the soul. Whate'er of life he touch'd, of youth or age, The pious Saint, or philosophic Sage; and yet occupies the precise situation which the most studied attention would have suggested; while all the qualities of the subject, in action, character, and expression, are preserved without an indication of effort, or a trace of pre-concertion or design. As the peculiar character and ambition of his art led him to address the mind in preference to the eye, the picturesque is in him always subordinate to the appropriate, and he disdains to cripple his subject in the consideration of lines and shapes. Like a judicious dramatist, he never sacrifices sentiment to situation, nor violates his story for stage effect. But amongst all the qualities of Raphael, there is per. haps, none more striking and uncommon than that noble and unaffected simplicity, with which he covers himself from the spectator of his works. Of all the actors of the graphic stage, he may be said to be most completly absorbed in his part: you never catch him in a strut of importance, or an artifice of affectation: he lays no little schemes of popular attraction; no clap-traps for applause. He is the dignified chieftain of his art, who conscious that his strength will appear in the exploits which he performs, Whether, impressive in the bold design, The rapt Apostle pour the word divine; 190 Or bright, on Tabor's summit, to the skies, The God, in full transfigured glory, ri...
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First edition. 8vo. xxviii, (4), 400 pp. American painter Washington Allston's copy, with his ownership signature at the head of the half title and with a small pen-and-ink sketch (2 1/2 x 2 inches) of a man's head, perhaps of classical character, at the bottom of the half-title (facial features inked through). Allston (1773-1843), a native of South Carolina, graduated from Harvard in 1800 ("where he exhibited a flair for caricature") and studied under Benjamin West in London and at various cities on the continent, remaining in Europe, successfully painting and writing poetry, until 1818, returning to America only in 1808 to marry the sister of William Ellery Channing. He lived out his years in Boston "failing to bear out his earlier promise" (DAB). Some light foxing, but a very good, untrimmed copy, with a wonderful association. Original boards (very rubbed and worn, especially corners and edges), rebacked with blue paper, new leather spine label and endpapers. (#5998).
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