id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 42371 Scott, John Robert Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts .txt text/plain 12780 538 57 Scott's "Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts" embodies what we culture excepting art, his own richly complex society has produced notions of the kind of society needed to produce major art, and beyond and study as will create in England art as great as Greece's. eighteenth-century society re-made, so far as its artistic life was A Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts 125 A Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts 125 generations of artists arose, each excelling the other in merit, and universally true, that where the arts have arisen from natural, or arts were not thought, either by themselves or by the public, the mere promoted the progress, never advanced the improvement of any art: but, influence on all their labours to improve their art; though, it may be, despise National art, vitiated the public mind, or rather strengthened ./cache/42371.txt ./txt/42371.txt