 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pages
...this consists the principal difficulty, as well as the excellency of that art. This, says my author, is the gift of Jupiter ; and, to speak in the same...Apollo — not to be obtained by pains or study, if 25 we are not born to it ; for the motions which are studied are never so natural as those which break... | |
 | Thomas Otway - Private presses - 1926 - 352 pages
...Du Fresnoy's De Arte graphica : The Art of Painting, 1695, there is a magnificent compliment: "... the motions which are studied are never so natural,...break out in the height of a real Passion. Mr. Otway possess'd this part as thoroughly as any of the ancient or moderns. I will not defend every thing in... | |
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Jupiter:" and, to speak in the same heathen language, we call it the gift of our Apollo, not to be obtained by pains or study, if we are not bom to it : for the motions which are studied are never so natural as those which break out in the height of a... 
