Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; and On Sketching Landscape: to which is Added a Poem, On Landscape PaintingR. Blamire, 1794 - 143 páginas |
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Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel ..., Páginas 61-88 William Gilpin Vista de fragmentos - 1792 |
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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 68 - I hold myself at perfect liberty, in the first place, to dispose the foreground as I please; restrained only by the analogy of the country. I take up a tree here, and plant it there. I pare a knoll, or make an addition to it. I remove a piece of paling - a cottage - a wall - or any removeable object, which I dislike.
Página 21 - ... the colouring may sometimes vary. In general however it is otherwise; in the objects of a landscape, particularly. The smooth side of a hill is generally of one uniform colour, while the fractured rock presents it's grey surface, adorned with patches of greensward running down it's guttered sides; and the broken ground is every where varied with an okery tint, a grey gravel, or a leaden-coloured clay: so that in fact the rich colours of the ground arise generally from it's broken...
Página 75 - Jketch, a figure, or two may be introduced with propriety. By figures I mean moving objects, as waggons, and boats, as well as cattle, and men.
Página 48 - The love of novelty is the foundation of this pleafure. Every diftant horizon promifes fomething new ; and with this pleafing expectation we follow nature through all her walks. We purfue her from hill to dale ; and hunt after thofe various beauties with which ihe every where abounds.
Página 52 - After we have amufed ourfehes with our fketches, if we can, in any degree, contribute to the amufement of others alfo, the pleafure is furely fo much inhanced.
Página 48 - And shall we suppose it a greater pleasure to the sportsman to pursue a trivial animal, than it is to the man of taste to pursue the beauties of nature...
Página 50 - ... and every mental operation is suspended. In this pause of intellect, this deliquium of the soul, an enthusiastic sensation of pleasure overspreads it, previous to any examination by the rules of art.
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 17 - It is bold, when a part is given for the whole, •which it cannot fail of fuggefting.