A Critical Dissertation on the Nature and Principles of Taste, כרך 1Sherwood, Jones, 1823 - 408 עמודים |
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עמוד xi
... tion to publish my Inquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful along with it , as the greater part of the work was then prepared ; but having subsequently reflected on the difficulties which a writer , un- known PREFACE . xi.
... tion to publish my Inquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful along with it , as the greater part of the work was then prepared ; but having subsequently reflected on the difficulties which a writer , un- known PREFACE . xi.
עמוד xii
... tion on Taste " by itself . This , perhaps , may have , in a few instances , ( though I am not now aware of any ) determined the mode of expression which I have used in the early part of this work ; but if any allusions should be made ...
... tion on Taste " by itself . This , perhaps , may have , in a few instances , ( though I am not now aware of any ) determined the mode of expression which I have used in the early part of this work ; but if any allusions should be made ...
עמוד 21
... tion to them , than a person who cannot feel them but when they exert a stronger and more per- ceptible influence . That quality which is only known through the medium of emotions , must surely be best known to him in whom the emo ...
... tion to them , than a person who cannot feel them but when they exert a stronger and more per- ceptible influence . That quality which is only known through the medium of emotions , must surely be best known to him in whom the emo ...
עמוד 27
... tion . I believe , however , it will always be found , that men who are thus easily pleased or displeased on the most trifling occasions , are men who evince little of that knowledge , experience , observa- tion , and critical attention ...
... tion . I believe , however , it will always be found , that men who are thus easily pleased or displeased on the most trifling occasions , are men who evince little of that knowledge , experience , observa- tion , and critical attention ...
עמוד 31
... is , and if not , that we cannot possess taste , till we first feel the pleasing emo- tion which it produces in the soul ; that this emotion is , therefore , inseparably connected with that discriminating NATURE AND PRINCIPLES OF TASTE .
... is , and if not , that we cannot possess taste , till we first feel the pleasing emo- tion which it produces in the soul ; that this emotion is , therefore , inseparably connected with that discriminating NATURE AND PRINCIPLES OF TASTE .
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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...