Three essays: on picturesque beauty; on picturesque travel; and on sketching landscape: to which is added a poem, on landscape painting. To these are now added two essaysCadell and Davies, 1808 - 183 páginas |
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Página 14 - Perching on the sceptred hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feathered king With ruffled plumes and flagging wing; Quenched in dark clouds of slumber lie The terror of his beak and lightnings of his eye.
Página 49 - Our amufement, on this head, arifes from the employment of the mind in examining the beautiful fcenes we have found. Sometimes we examine them under the idea of a whole: we admire the compofition, pofition, the colouring, and the light, in one comprebenfive view. When we are fortunate enough to fall in with fcenes of this kind, we are highly delighted.
Página 7 - Should we wish to give it picturesque beauty, we must use the mallet, instead of the chisel: we must beat down one half of it, deface the other, and throw the mutilated members around in heaps. In short, from a smooth building we must turn it into a rough ruin.
Página 7 - Both ideas however equally enter into the picturesque; and both are observable in the smaller, as well as in the larger parts of nature — in the outline, and bark of a tree, as in the rude summit, and craggy sides of a mountain.
Página 68 - I take up a tree here, and plant it there. I pare a knoll, or make an addition to it.
Página 17 - It is bold, when a part is given for the whole, •which it cannot fail of fuggefting. This is the laconifm of genius. But fometimes it may be free, and yet fuggeft only how eafily a line, which means ^nothing, may be executed, Such a ftroke is not bold, but impudent.
Página 14 - But as an object of pifturefque beauty, we admire more the worn-out cart-horfe, the cow, the goat, or the afs; whofe harder lines, and rougher coats, exhibit more the graces of the pencil; For the truth of this we may examine Berghem's pictures: we may examine the fmart touch of Rofa of Tivoli. The lion with his rough mane; the briftly boar ; and the ruffled plumage of the eagle*, are all objects of this kind.
Página 137 - ... winding, &c. The machine itfelf here defcribed is picturefque : and when it is feen in winding motion, or (in other words) when half of it is feen in perfpective, it receives additional beauty from contraft.
Página 46 - But among all the objects of art, the picturesque eye is perhaps most inquisitive after the elegant relics of ancient architecture; the ruined tower, the Gothic arch, the remains of castles, and abbeys.
Página 52 - But, in general, tho it may be a calmer fpecies of plea.* fare, it is more uniform, and uninterrupted. It flatters us too with the idea of a fort of creation of our own; and it is unallayed with that fatigue, which is often a confiderable abatement to the pleafures of traverfing the wild, and favage parts of nature.