Essays on the Picturesque, as Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful: And, on the Use of Studying Pictures, for the Purpose of Improving Real Landscape, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1810 - Aesthetics |
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... pleasing languor , which the union of all that constitutes beauty impresses on the soul . The style of his hair is as smooth , as its own character , and its effect in accompanying the face will allow ; the flow of his drapery , the ...
... pleasing languor , which the union of all that constitutes beauty impresses on the soul . The style of his hair is as smooth , as its own character , and its effect in accompanying the face will allow ; the flow of his drapery , the ...
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... pleasing effects such are une physionomie de fan- taisie , and the well known expression of un certain je ne sais quoi ; it is also common to say of a woman - que sans être belle elle est piquante - a word , by the bye , that in many ...
... pleasing effects such are une physionomie de fan- taisie , and the well known expression of un certain je ne sais quoi ; it is also common to say of a woman - que sans être belle elle est piquante - a word , by the bye , that in many ...
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... pleasing forms and proportions in trees , and different men have different pre- dilections , just as they have with respect to their own species ; but I never knew any person , who , if he observed at all , was not struck with the ...
... pleasing forms and proportions in trees , and different men have different pre- dilections , just as they have with respect to their own species ; but I never knew any person , who , if he observed at all , was not struck with the ...
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... beauty ; whereas the picturesque renders it more captivating . This last difference is happily pointed out and illustrated , in the most ingenious and pleasing of all fic- tions , that of Venus's Cestus . Juno , how- 86.
... beauty ; whereas the picturesque renders it more captivating . This last difference is happily pointed out and illustrated , in the most ingenious and pleasing of all fic- tions , that of Venus's Cestus . Juno , how- 86.
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... As beauty is the most pleasing of all ideas to the human mind , it is very natural that it should be most sought after , and that the name should have been applied to 4 every species of excellence . Mr. Burke has done a 102.
... As beauty is the most pleasing of all ideas to the human mind , it is very natural that it should be most sought after , and that the name should have been applied to 4 every species of excellence . Mr. Burke has done a 102.
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Page 97 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 132 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 100 - Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.
Page 190 - 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.
Page 64 - Archangel ; but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek ; but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion...
Page 87 - THE passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment : and astonishment is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.
Page 116 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War...
Page 51 - A temple or palace of Grecian architecture in its perfect entire state, and with its surface and colour smooth and even, either in painting or reality is beautiful; in ruin it is picturesque.
Page 63 - In our own species, objects merely picturesque are to be found among the wandering tribes of gypsies and beggars, who, in all the qualities which give them that character, bear a close analogy to the wild forester and the worn out cart horse, and again to old mills, hovels, and other inanimate objects of the same kind.
Page 163 - ... else has retired into obscurity ; it still forces itself into notice, still impudently stares you in the face. An object of a sober tint, unexpectedly gilded by the sun, is like a serious countenance suddenly lighted up by a smile ; a whitened object like the eternal grin of a fool.