An analytical inquiry into the principles of taste by Richard Payne Knight

Author:Richard Payne Knight
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: T. Payne

120. The art of sculpture is necessarily, from the process of its execution, less susceptible of this kind of excellence, than that of painting; and, as it is now generally practised, cannot PART IT.

admit of it in any degree whatever. Among the ^aX^u^

great artists of antiquity, however, the brass or Of Imagina

marble statue was not a mere servile copy, set *

out by the rule and compass, and finished with

the rasp and file, from the model- of the sculptor

by the hands of ignorant mechanics: the touches

of the master visited every part of it; and the last

finish was by the chisel, wielded by the hand

that had modelled, and directed by the mind, that

had conceived the whole.

121. The Latin having been the language in which all public business was transacted throughout the Roman empire, a competent knowledge of it was necessary for all, who sought public em* ployment either civil or military. Public schools were therefore erected for the study of it, early in the second century of Christianity; and public professors of rhetoric appointed through all the principal cities of the western provinces*; from whose appointment, we may date the complete corruption and decline of Latin eloquence. Rule and system were then substituted to tact and sentiment; the form and length of every period were prescribed; and the various figures of speech distributed through the discourse, with all the

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