...of discovering what is deformed in nature, or, in other words, what is particular and uncommon, can be acquired only by experience ; and the whole beauty and grandeur of the art (•'insists, in my opinion, in being able to get above all singular forms, local customs, particularities,...

...is particular and uncommon, can be acquired only by experience; A Lie! PfgtsS. and the whole beauty of the art consists, in my opinion, in being able to get above al! singular forms, local customs, particularities, and details of every land. A Folly ! Singular &...

...upon every side of us .... only to be acquired by experience." Blake : A lie. A lie. A lie. To :".... and the whole beauty and grandeur of the art consists, in my opinion, in being able to get above all .... details of every kind." Blake : A folly ; singular and particular detail is the foundation of...

...date, Sir Joshua Reynolds' outrageous pronouncement that "the whole beauty and grandeur of art consists in being able to get above all singular forms, local customs, particularities, and details of every kind,"11 might very well be a definition of "the whole beauty and grandeur" of Utopia. But it is also...

...of discovering . . . can be acquired only by experience; . . . A Lie. A Lie. A Lie . . . art [must] get above all singular forms , local customs, particularities, and details of every kind. A Folly Singular & Particular Detail is the Foundation of the Sublime The most beautijul forms have...

...Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1nd edn (1800), ed. RL Brett and AR Jones (London, 1963), p. 145. [art (must) get above all singular forms, local customs, particularities, and details of every kind.] A folly Singular & Particular Detail is the Foundation of the Sublime . . . [There is a rule, obtained...

...Reynolds, asserting (after Rymer?) that the painter's task was to depict the "Ideal Beauty" that is "above all singular forms, local customs, particularities, and details of every kind"; or Marmontel, stating that "art does not consist in going against nature, but in improving it, in embellishing...

...doctrine of the central form, which is arrived at by the ability to abstract substance from accident, "to get above all singular forms, local customs, particularities, and details of every kind."4 True taste, for Reynolds, is the ability to form and to recognize representative general ideas,...

...in the third Discourse, where he claims that "the whole beauty and grandeur of the art consists ... in being able to get above all singular forms, local...customs, particularities, and details of every kind" (44). Burke formalized the pleasures of the privileged spectator's self-aggrandizement in a rather...

...what is to be found in individual nature'; and 'the whole beauty and grandeur' of painting consists 'in being able to get above all singular forms, local...customs, particularities, and details of every kind' (42, 44). 29 This is the 'presiding principle' of the art, 'that perfect form is produced by leaving...