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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... rich . " 66 All that has just been said on the effect , which , in objects of sight , a due propor- tion of roughness and sharpness gives to smoothness , as likewise on the danger of making these two qualities too predomi- nant , may ...
... rich . " 66 All that has just been said on the effect , which , in objects of sight , a due propor- tion of roughness and sharpness gives to smoothness , as likewise on the danger of making these two qualities too predomi- nant , may ...
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... rich , and picturesque effects , especially , those of light and shadow ; and the figures , dresses , buildings , scenes which he repre- sented , though they occasionally produced grandeur , were chiefly chosen with a view to such ...
... rich , and picturesque effects , especially , those of light and shadow ; and the figures , dresses , buildings , scenes which he repre- sented , though they occasionally produced grandeur , were chiefly chosen with a view to such ...
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... rich in colouring , and splendid in effect , is a combination of which the art of painting since its revival , can hardly be said to have given any perfect example . As the most exquisite of the ancient statues are the acknowledged ...
... rich in colouring , and splendid in effect , is a combination of which the art of painting since its revival , can hardly be said to have given any perfect example . As the most exquisite of the ancient statues are the acknowledged ...
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... of the light and shadow , and the continued flow of outline ; but no person , I think , who reads the description of it just quoted , can doubt that having neither the solemnity and severity of the grand , nor the rich- ness 144.
... of the light and shadow , and the continued flow of outline ; but no person , I think , who reads the description of it just quoted , can doubt that having neither the solemnity and severity of the grand , nor the rich- ness 144.
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... rich- ness and splendour of the ornamental style , it must have a separate character in a high degree appropriate to what is simply beautiful ; and may equally with them ( though that is a consideration of much less importance ) lay ...
... rich- ness and splendour of the ornamental style , it must have a separate character in a high degree appropriate to what is simply beautiful ; and may equally with them ( though that is a consideration of much less importance ) lay ...
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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.