A Critical Dissertation on the Nature and Principles of TasteSherwood, Jones, & Company, 1823 - 408 páginas |
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... passage in Akenside : - What , then , is taste but those internal powers , Active and strong , and feelingly alive To each fine impulse ? According to this definition , which makes taste consist , not in a knowledge or perception of the ...
... passage in Akenside : - What , then , is taste but those internal powers , Active and strong , and feelingly alive To each fine impulse ? According to this definition , which makes taste consist , not in a knowledge or perception of the ...
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... passages from the poets , particularly Homer , with a rapturous and enthusiastic pronunciation , as if they had an exquisite and warm perception of their excellence . It is probable that they also declaimed in praise of their favourite ...
... passages from the poets , particularly Homer , with a rapturous and enthusiastic pronunciation , as if they had an exquisite and warm perception of their excellence . It is probable that they also declaimed in praise of their favourite ...
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... passage in a poem , or a certain figure in a painting , and that the emotions which they produce originate from a vitiated taste ; but the moment we prove them to be in error , it will always be found , that their judgments were not ...
... passage in a poem , or a certain figure in a painting , and that the emotions which they produce originate from a vitiated taste ; but the moment we prove them to be in error , it will always be found , that their judgments were not ...
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... well acquainted with the terms which they make use of . But I suspect , that no passage can be met with in the writings of Homer , Virgil , or Milton , of Newton , Locke , or Descartes , but the NATURE AND PRINCIPLES OF TASTE . 101.
... well acquainted with the terms which they make use of . But I suspect , that no passage can be met with in the writings of Homer , Virgil , or Milton , of Newton , Locke , or Descartes , but the NATURE AND PRINCIPLES OF TASTE . 101.
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... passages as strongly attracted his attention , and where he was at a loss which most to admire , the felicity of the expression , or the beauty of the sentiment . He therefore treats of every subject in conversation , as if NATURE AND ...
... passages as strongly attracted his attention , and where he was at a loss which most to admire , the felicity of the expression , or the beauty of the sentiment . He therefore treats of every subject in conversation , as if NATURE AND ...
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acquainted admiration admit adopt Æneid affected agreeable Angelo appear argument authority Bernini blank verse cause cerning character choly circumstances common feeling conclusions correct courser criticism delight discern discover discussion distinct doubt elegant emotion equally error excite existence expression exquisite faculty false fashion forms founded genius give habit Homer Hudibras ideas of beauty ignorant Iliad imagination imitation impression influence intellectual judgment Knight knowledge less Lord Kames Madame de Staël manner matters of taste melan ment Milton mind nature necessarily never object of taste observed obvious opinion original Ossian painting passage passion perceive perception perfect philosophy pleasing pleasure poetry poets Pope possess present principles of taste produce prove Ptolemy qualities of beauty racter reason refined Rembrandt render rience Satan says scepticism sensation sense sensibility sentiment shew shewn Sir Joshua Reynolds style sublime suppose tain Theramene thing thought tion true truth tural Virgil writers
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página i - 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 141 - THAT HE HAD A HEAD TO CONTRIVE, A TONGUE TO PERSUADE, AND A HAND TO EXECUTE ANY MISCHIEF.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 243 - Or seeks his wat'ring in the well-known flood, To quench his thirst, and cool his fiery blood : He swims luxuriant in the liquid plain, And o'er his shoulder flows his waving mane : He neighs, he snorts, he bears his head on high; Before his ample chest the frothy waters fly.