 | English literature - 1817 - 526 pages
...paragraph of which is conceived in the following terms : — " The general effect proposed to be excited by this picture is the terrible sublime, and its various...lost in the opposite extremes of pity and horror, a sentiment which painting has so seldom attempted to awaken, that a particular description of the... | |
 | 1817 - 292 pages
...general eifect proposed to he excited hy this picture, the artist tells us, is the terrihle suhlime, and its various modifications, until lost in the opposite extremes of pity and horror. We cannot forhear copying the following extract from the printed deseription of the picture, as it... | |
 | 1818 - 588 pages
...of the artist was a delineation upon canvas 'of the terrible sublime,' as he describes it, ' in all its various modifications, until lost in the opposite extremes of pity and horror.' The attempt to execute and arrange complicated masses of figures, so as to excite in the mind associations... | |
 | John BRUCE (Minister of Low Hill Cemetery, Liverpool.) - Death - 1827 - 240 pages
...celebrated Painting of WEST — DEATH ON THE PALE HORSE. " The general effect proposed to be excited by the Picture is the terrible sublime, and its various modifications,...lost in the opposite extremes of pity and horror." Such was certainly the impression produced on the Author's mind; and while his imagination was powerfully... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Art - 1844 - 476 pages
...paragraph of which is conceived in the following terms : — "The general effect proposed to be excited by this picture is the terrible sublime, and its •various...lost in the opposite extremes of pity and horror, a sentiment which painting has so seldom attempted to awaken, that a particular description of the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Art - 1844 - 484 pages
...paragraph of which is conceived in the following terms ; — " The general effect proposed to be excited by this picture is the terrible sublime, and its various modifications, until lost in die opposite extremes of pity and horror, a sentiment which painting has so seldom attempted to awaken,... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - Art - 1873 - 508 pages
...paragraph of which is conceived in the following terms : — " The general effect proposed to be excited by this picture is the terrible sublime, and its various...lost in the opposite extremes of pity and horror, a sentiment which painting has so seldom attempted to awaken, that a particular description of the... | |
 | Helen Weston Henderson - Art - 1911 - 542 pages
...recapture the Holy City. The general effect aimed at by the artist in this picture is the terribly sublime and its various modifications until lost in the opposite extremes of pity and horror. Mr. West was of the opinion, that, to delineate a physical form, which in its moral impression would... | |
 | Decoration and ornament - 1821 - 466 pages
...much and conflicting criticism. The object of the artist, as he himself expressed it, was, to excite " the terrible sublime, and its various modifications,...lost in the opposite extremes of pity and horror." — How far the artist lias succeeded, it is for the public to.judge; his attempt was indeed a bold... | |
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... battle of Waterloo had done in arms !" We shall not stay to decide between the battle and the picture ; but the writer follows up the same idea of the Terrible Sublime in the Catalogue, the first paragraph of which is conceived in the following terms... 