A Critical Dissertation on the Nature and Principles of Taste, 1. kötetSherwood, Jones, 1823 - 408 oldal |
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v. oldal
... writers are not agreed ; but whether it be original or ac- quired , we all 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 ...
... writers are not agreed ; but whether it be original or ac- quired , we all 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 ...
vi. oldal
... writers , it may be necessary to say a word relative to the motives that led to the present work . Beauty and Sublimity have been generally con- sidered the proper objects of taste ; but beauty and sublimity are , in themselves ...
... writers , it may be necessary to say a word relative to the motives that led to the present work . Beauty and Sublimity have been generally con- sidered the proper objects of taste ; but beauty and sublimity are , in themselves ...
vii. oldal
... writer who can either remove a part of this obscurity , or who can lift up the veil at once , and permit us to view it ... writers , he will admit the propriety of the views that have led to its production ; and he will equally admit the ...
... writer who can either remove a part of this obscurity , or who can lift up the veil at once , and permit us to view it ... writers , he will admit the propriety of the views that have led to its production ; and he will equally admit the ...
viii. oldal
... writers . I have been , however , careful to confine myself , in the present work , to the consideration of Taste alone , without any regard to the theory which I intend to adopt on the subject of Sublimity and Beauty , and which I ...
... writers . I have been , however , careful to confine myself , in the present work , to the consideration of Taste alone , without any regard to the theory which I intend to adopt on the subject of Sublimity and Beauty , and which I ...
ix. oldal
... writers to substantiate my own , I have been elucidating the subject in which I was engaged ; and whether I have been successful or not , I have led my reader into that line of inquiry which will enable him , in most cases , to ...
... writers to substantiate my own , I have been elucidating the subject in which I was engaged ; and whether I have been successful or not , I have led my reader into that line of inquiry which will enable him , in most cases , to ...
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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
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107. oldal - 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...
202. oldal - 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...
330. oldal - 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.
125. oldal - 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...
56. oldal - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause.
156. oldal - 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.
141. oldal - THAT HE HAD A HEAD TO CONTRIVE, A TONGUE TO PERSUADE, AND A HAND TO EXECUTE ANY MISCHIEF.
333. oldal - 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.
315. oldal - 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.
240. oldal - ... 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...