Physiological AestheticsH.S. King & Company, 1877 - 283 páginas |
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Accordingly action actual æsthetic Æther agreeable air-waves animal aroused artistic auditory auditory nerves beauty of form body Capsicums Caustic substances cochlea cognised combinations complex emotional connected connexion consciousness considerable crystalline lens delicate destructive disagreeable discrimination disintegration effect emotional element energy epidermis Esthetic Feelings Ether-waves excessive excited exercise faint fatigue fibres flowers give rise gratification green gustatory harmony Hence Herbert Spencer higher hues human ideal sensuous imitation inharmonic instances intel intellectual life-serving function light ment metre muscular natural selection nature nerves nervous structures normal notice objects optic nerve ordinary organs Painting perception pleasures and pains plot-interest poet poetical Poetry portion present produce pungent purely Quadrumana result retina savage Sculpture sensation sense sensuous elements sight skin smell sounds stimulation sweet symmetry sympathetic sympathetic vibration taste tints tion tissues touch ugly undulations unpleasant variety various vibrations violent visual voltaic arc waves whole yield
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Página 260 - Whatever earth, all-bearing mother, yields In India East or West, or middle shore In Pontus or the Punic coast, or where Alcinous reign'd, fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough, or smooth rind, or bearded husk, or shell, She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand ; for drink the grape She crushes, inoffensive must, and meaths From many a berry, and from sweet kernels press'd She tempers dulcet creams...
Página 260 - What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change...
Página 117 - And flashing round and round, and whirl'd in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn, Seen where the moving isles of winter shock By night, with noises of the northern sea. So...
Página 260 - While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd; With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrups, tinct with cinnamon; Manna and dates, in argosy transferred From Fez; and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedared Lebanon.
Página vii - Why we receive pleasure from some forms and colours, and not from others, is no more to be asked or answered than why we like sugar and dislike wormwood.
Página 39 - Allen defined the beautiful as that which afforded the maximum of stimulation with the minimum of fatigue or waste, in processes not directly connected with life-serving functions.
Página 277 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God. "I stretch lame hands of faith and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel Is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Página 261 - There, on a slope of orchard, Francis laid A damask napkin wrought with horse and hound, Brought out a dusky loaf that smelt of home, And, half-cut-down, a pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied...
Página 44 - The vulgar are pleased by great masses of color, especially red, orange, and purple, which give their coarse nervous organization the requisite stimulus. The refined, with nerves of less caliber, but greater discriminativeness, require delicate combinations of complementaries and prefer neutral tints to the glare of the primary hues. Children and savages love to dress in all the colors of the rainbow.
Página 20 - declares, that " a very considerable number of the facts may be brought under the following principle, namely, that states of pleasure are connected with an increase, and states of pain with an abatement, of some, or all, of the vital functions.