A Critical Dissertation on the Nature and Principles of Taste, כרך 1Sherwood, Jones, 1823 - 408 עמודים |
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עמוד v
... agree in acknowledging the dignity of its nature , and the extent of its influence . It is conversant with all the objects of animate and inanimate creation , nor are even the unembodied forms of intellectual being placed beyond the ex ...
... agree in acknowledging the dignity of its nature , and the extent of its influence . It is conversant with all the objects of animate and inanimate creation , nor are even the unembodied forms of intellectual being placed beyond the ex ...
עמוד 43
... agree in their ideas , even of those more obvious beauties with which they are chiefly conversant , and as almost each of them creates a beauty of his own , or at least imagines that he perceives beauty in an object which is devoid of ...
... agree in their ideas , even of those more obvious beauties with which they are chiefly conversant , and as almost each of them creates a beauty of his own , or at least imagines that he perceives beauty in an object which is devoid of ...
עמוד 65
... agree with the common feeling of mankind . If we mistake the proper course which ought to be pursued , in acquiring this knowledge , or discriminating perception , we can scarcely flatter ourselves with the hope of ever attaining it ...
... agree with the common feeling of mankind . If we mistake the proper course which ought to be pursued , in acquiring this knowledge , or discriminating perception , we can scarcely flatter ourselves with the hope of ever attaining it ...
עמוד 66
... agree- able sensations ? And what obligations shall we lie under to philosophy , if it manifestly tend to diminish our pleasures ? We cannot answer this latter question without the utmost regret , because we are obliged to acknowledge ...
... agree- able sensations ? And what obligations shall we lie under to philosophy , if it manifestly tend to diminish our pleasures ? We cannot answer this latter question without the utmost regret , because we are obliged to acknowledge ...
עמוד 71
... agree or disagree with those which we have formerly entertained . The change that takes place in many of them is too slight to fix our attention : we always continue to believe a part of what we believed before , and we take it for ...
... agree or disagree with those which we have formerly entertained . The change that takes place in many of them is too slight to fix our attention : we always continue to believe a part of what we believed before , and we take it for ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
acquainted admiration admit adopt Æneid affected agreeable Angelo appear argument authority Bernini blank verse Boileau 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 impart impression influence intellectual ject judgment Knight knowledge less Lord Kames Madame de Staël manner melan ment Milton mind nature necessarily never object of taste obscurity 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 Virgil writers
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 141 - THAT HE HAD A HEAD TO CONTRIVE, A TONGUE TO PERSUADE, AND A HAND TO EXECUTE ANY MISCHIEF.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...