 | Aristotle - Aesthetics - 1815 - 492 pages
...certain manner, but must also be of a certain magnitude; for beauty consists in magnitude and order61. Hence it is that no very minute animal can be beautiful;...parts cannot be seen at once, the whole, the unity c of object, is lost to the spectator; as it would be, for example, if he were surveying an animal... | |
 | 1868 - 522 pages
...requisite, so prodigious size cannot be truly beautiful, because, as all the parts cannot be viewed at once, the whole (the unity of object) is lost to the spectator. The effect of colouring marblo is manifested in 1174, " The Bather," by M. Edwards; and of tinting... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1868 - 520 pages
...requisite, so prodigious size cannot be truly beautiful, because, as all the parts cannot be viewed at once, the whole (the unity of object) is lost to the spectator. The effect of colouring marble is manifested in 1174, " The Bather," by M. Edwards; and of tinting... | |
 | John William Donaldson - Greek drama - 1849 - 642 pages
...also a certain magnitude ; for a thing may be entire and a whole, and yet not be of any magnitude. 1. By entire, I mean that which has a beginning, a...be, for example, if he were surveying an animal of very many miles in length. As, therefore, in animals and other objects, a certain magnitude is requisite,... | |
 | Aristotle - 1851 - 90 pages
...prodigious size be beautiful ; because, as all its parts cannot be seen at once, the whole, the (a) unity of object, is lost to the spectator ; as it...were surveying an animal of many miles in length, (b) As, therefore, in animals, and other objects, a certain magnitude is requisite, but that magnitude... | |
 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - Preaching - 1858 - 480 pages
...is that no very minute animal can be beautiful ; the eye comprehends the whole too instantaneouslv, to distinguish and compare the parts : neither, on...object — is lost to the spectator; as it would be, if he were surveying an animal many miles long. A certain magnitude is requisite, but such as to present... | |
 | Greeks - 1860 - 904 pages
...follow it. An end, on the- contrary, is that which supposes something to precede it, either iiecessarily or probably; but which nothing is required to follow....be, for example, if he were surveying an animal of very many miles in length. As, therefore, in animals and other objects, a certain magnitude is requisite,... | |
 | 518 pages
...requisite, so prodigious size cannot be truly beautiful, because, as all the parts cannot be viewed at once, the whole (the unity of object) is lost to the spectator. The effect of colouring marble is manifested in 1174, " The Bather," by M. Edwards; and of tinting... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 478 pages
...properly is not at liberty to begin or end where he pleases, but must conform to these definitions. a. Again: whatever is beautiful, whether it be an animal,...once, the whole (the unity of object) is lost to the spectator,—as it would be, for example, if he were surveying an animal of many miles in length. As,... | |
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Hence it is that no very minute animal can be beautiful ; the eye comprehends the whole too instantaneously to distinguish and compare the parts : — neither, on the contrary, can one of a prodigious size be beautiful; because, as all its parts cannot... 