Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, Volumen1Cummings and Hilliard, 1812 - 434 páginas |
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... thought lead them to at- tend more to the causes of their emotions , than to the nature of the emotions themselves . II . The second class of hypotheses arises from the oppo- site view of the subject . It is that which resists the idea ...
... thought lead them to at- tend more to the causes of their emotions , than to the nature of the emotions themselves . II . The second class of hypotheses arises from the oppo- site view of the subject . It is that which resists the idea ...
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... thought being immediately awakened in his imagination , analogous to the character or expression of the original object . The simple perception of the object , we frequently find , is insufficient to excite these emo- tions , unless it ...
... thought being immediately awakened in his imagination , analogous to the character or expression of the original object . The simple perception of the object , we frequently find , is insufficient to excite these emo- tions , unless it ...
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... thought , seems to consist the effect which objects of sublimity and beauty have upon the imagination . For the truth of this observation itself , I must finally appeal to the consciousness of the reader ; but there are some very ...
... thought , seems to consist the effect which objects of sublimity and beauty have upon the imagination . For the truth of this observation itself , I must finally appeal to the consciousness of the reader ; but there are some very ...
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... thought which such objects naturally produce , or our incapacity to do it , from some other idea , which has at that time taken possession of our minds , and renders us unable to attend to any thing else . That state of mind , every man ...
... thought which such objects naturally produce , or our incapacity to do it , from some other idea , which has at that time taken possession of our minds , and renders us unable to attend to any thing else . That state of mind , every man ...
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Archibald Alison. of thought , as to leave us open to all the impressions , which the objects that are before us can ... thoughts on such an occasion , or who will recollect how different was his state of mind , when he first felt the ...
Archibald Alison. of thought , as to leave us open to all the impressions , which the objects that are before us can ... thoughts on such an occasion , or who will recollect how different was his state of mind , when he first felt the ...
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2dly accordingly admiration amid angular animals appearances arises artist associations attitude or gesture beau beautiful form beauty of forms beauty or sublimity cause character circumstances colours common composition composition of sounds connexion considered constitution contrary degree delicacy delight dispositions distinguished dress effect emotion of beauty emotions of sublimity emotions of taste entablature eral excite experience expres expression of design feel felt as beautiful gaiety grace greater human countenance human form human voice ideas illustrations imagination imitation instance kind language mankind manner melancholy motion musical composition nature objects observation obvious opinion ornamental painful particular passions peculiar perceive perhaps permanent pleasing or interesting pleasure pression principle produce the emotions propriety qualities of mind reader regard relation rience riety scene scenery seems sense sensibility significant signs sion sounds species sublimity and beauty sublimity or beauty sufficient tion tone trains of thought ture
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Página 119 - Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
Página 39 - The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watchdog's voice that bay'd the whisp'ring wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Página 89 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Página 44 - Shagg'd o'er with wavy rocks, cheerless, and void Of every life, that from the dreary months Flies conscious southward. Miserable they ! Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun ; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible.
Página ix - I have here offered, than that music, architecture, and painting, as well as poetry and oratory, are to deduce their laws and rules from the general sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves ; or, in other words, the taste is not to conform to the art, but the art to the taste.
Página 38 - Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose. There as I...
Página 118 - And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord ; but the Lord was not in the wind : and after the wind an earthquake ; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire ; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came...
Página 119 - The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch: Fire answers fire; and through their paly flames Each battle sees the other's umber'd face: Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents, The armourers, accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.
Página 24 - The beauty of autumn is accompanied with a similar exercise of thought : the leaves begin then to drop from the trees; the flowers and shrubs, with w-hich the fields were adorned in the summer months, decay; the woods and groves are silent ; the sun himself seems gradually to withdraw his light, or to become enfeebled in his power. Who is there, who, at this season, does not feel his mind impressed with a sentiment of melancholy ? or who is able to resist that current of thought, which, from such...
Página 37 - Caesar, and Cicero, and Virgil, which is before him. It is the Mistress of the world which he sees, and who seems to him to rise again from her tomb, to give laws to the universe. All that the labours of his youth, or the studies of his maturer age have acquired, with regard to the history of this great people, open at once before his imagination, and present him with a field of high and solemn imagery, which can never be exhausted. Take from him these associations, — conceal from him that it is...