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 |
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... passages of the poets , respecting the banks of rivers ; none of them applicable to those of Mr. Brown's artificial water No professor has endeavoured to make an artificial like a natural river ; though he would be proud of having it ...
... passages of the poets , respecting the banks of rivers ; none of them applicable to those of Mr. Brown's artificial water No professor has endeavoured to make an artificial like a natural river ; though he would be proud of having it ...
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... passages so very plainly shew how little I presumed to suppose our ideas were clearly settled , that no person , who had read the book with any degree of atten- tion , could have made such a remark ; and I must say , that whoever does ...
... passages so very plainly shew how little I presumed to suppose our ideas were clearly settled , that no person , who had read the book with any degree of atten- tion , could have made such a remark ; and I must say , that whoever does ...
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... passages very gene- rally acknowledged , I could wish that he and his learned friends , would take the trouble of examining such passages in Homer , Virgil , Shakspeare , Milton , and all the poets who are most eminent for their ...
... passages very gene- rally acknowledged , I could wish that he and his learned friends , would take the trouble of examining such passages in Homer , Virgil , Shakspeare , Milton , and all the poets who are most eminent for their ...
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... passages in poe- try will of course present themselves to a person so well read in the classics as Mr. Mason , but I will ... passage which Longinus has particularly dwelt upon : it is that celebrated one in the Iliad * , where Homer has ...
... passages in poe- try will of course present themselves to a person so well read in the classics as Mr. Mason , but I will ... passage which Longinus has particularly dwelt upon : it is that celebrated one in the Iliad * , where Homer has ...
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... passage , according to my idea , in Virgil , or perhaps in any other poet , is that magnificent personification of a ... passages of terror , what remains ? In this last particularly , the sublime opposition between the cause and the ...
... passage , according to my idea , in Virgil , or perhaps in any other poet , is that magnificent personification of a ... passages of terror , what remains ? In this last particularly , the sublime opposition between the cause and the ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
according admired Æschylus animals appearance arbutus art of painting artist avenue banks belt breadth broken Brown buildings Burke called Caravaggio character charms circumstances Claude clumps Colonna palace colour colours of spring Correggio deformity degree delight distinct Domenico Feti effect equally expression firs foliage freshness gardening give grand grandeur ground idea of beauty imitated impression improver intricacy irritation kind landscape less light and shadow lines look manner means ment mind monotony nature neral ness objects observed ornament painter Palladian architecture peculiar perhaps picturesque Pietro da Cortona plantations planted pleasure prevail principles produced racter Rembrandt Repton resque rich river rough Rubens Salvator Rosa scenery scenes seems sense shade shew shewn Sir Joshua Reynolds smooth soft spect striking strongly marked style sublime sudden supposed symmetry taste thing tints tion Titian trees ture turesque ugliness varied variety Venetian whole wood word
Passagens conhecidas
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.