A Critical Dissertation on the Nature and Principles of Taste, Volume 1 |
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... ignorant of the first rudi- ments of painting , feels the most lively satisfaction at all the beauties and charms that are described to him . To apply this supposed case to Dr. Blair's definition of taste , it is obvious , if it con ...
... ignorant of the first rudi- ments of painting , feels the most lively satisfaction at all the beauties and charms that are described to him . To apply this supposed case to Dr. Blair's definition of taste , it is obvious , if it con ...
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... ignorant of both , may possess it in the highest degree . It is no argu- ment to say , that the connoisseur would have felt as much pleasure as either of his friends in contemplating the paintings when he returned to the Louvre , if he ...
... ignorant of both , may possess it in the highest degree . It is no argu- ment to say , that the connoisseur would have felt as much pleasure as either of his friends in contemplating the paintings when he returned to the Louvre , if he ...
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... ignorance of art , from the capacity of every real artist to distinguish beauties from faults , and to point them out in the works of any performer in the kind . Socrates proves , from the concessions of his antagonist , that neither ...
... ignorance of art , from the capacity of every real artist to distinguish beauties from faults , and to point them out in the works of any performer in the kind . Socrates proves , from the concessions of his antagonist , that neither ...
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... ignorant of the manner in which the effect was produced , because he is unacquainted with the qualities of beauty , though he gives testimony to their pleasing and delight- ful influence . Such a man may be called a man of exquisite ...
... ignorant of the manner in which the effect was produced , because he is unacquainted with the qualities of beauty , though he gives testimony to their pleasing and delight- ful influence . Such a man may be called a man of exquisite ...
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... ignorance , or suspend our opinion , than venture to trace a general effect , or the usage of an entire nation , to so doubtful an origin . The genius of a nation , particularly a nation that possesses a marked and decisive character ...
... ignorance , or suspend our opinion , than venture to trace a general effect , or the usage of an entire nation , to so doubtful an origin . The genius of a nation , particularly a nation that possesses a marked and decisive character ...
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Page 107 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 202 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday...
Page 330 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 125 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Page 56 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause.
Page 156 - O my soul's joy ! If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death ! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, Olympus-high ; and duck again as low As hell's from heaven ! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 141 - THAT HE HAD A HEAD TO CONTRIVE, A TONGUE TO PERSUADE, AND A HAND TO EXECUTE ANY MISCHIEF.
Page 333 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 315 - Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
Page 240 - ... kinds of thoughts which are carefully to be avoided. The first are such as are affected and unnatural ; the second, such as are mean and vulgar. As for the first kind of thoughts, we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil : he has none of those trifling...