The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 17
Dryden
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Dryden · 54 chapters
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- PrefaceSample
- HIS GRACE
- OF THE
- TO THE
- THE POSTSCRIPT OF THE TRANSLATOR.
- FOOTNOTES:
- WRITTEN BY
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- TO THE
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- WITH AN ORIGINAL PREFACE, CONTAINING
- Preface
- ARTE GRAPHICA
- II. De speculatione et praxi.
- III. De Argumento.
- VI. Inane rejiciendum.
- XV. Numerus figurarum.
- XXVIII. Res quæque locum suum teneat.
- XXX. Gothorum ornamenta fugienda.
- XXXI. Tonorum luminum et umbrarum ratio.
- XXXIII. Non duo ex cœlo lumina in tabulam æqualia.
- XXXVI. Unio colorum.
- LIX. Ars debet servire pictori non pictor arti.
- LXV. Quod mente conceperis manu comproba.
- LXIX. Non desint pugillares.
- LXX. Ordo studiorum.
- LXXI. Natura et experientia artem perficiunt.
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- II. Of theory and practice.
- III. Concerning the subject.
- VI. Whatsoever palls the subject to be rejected.
- XV. Of the number of figures.
- XVI. Of the joints and feet.
- XX. Ancient figures the rules of imitating nature.
- XXIX. Of the passions.
- XXXI. The conduct of the tints of light and shadows.
- XXXIV. Of white and black.
- XXXVI. Union of colours.
- XXXVIII. The relation of distances.
- XLIX. The looking-glass the painter’s best master.
- LI. A portrait.
- LIII. Large lights.
- LVIII. Advice to a young painter.
- LXIII. Pride an enemy to good painting.
- LXIX. Of table-books.
- LXX. The method of studies for a young painter.
- THE ART OF PAINTING
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- M. Colbert.