The Analysis of Beauty: Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste |
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... actually requires a practical knowledge of the whole art of painting ( sculpture
alone not being sufficient ) and that too to some degree of eminence , in order to
enable any one to pursue the chain of this enquiry PREFACE .
... actually requires a practical knowledge of the whole art of painting ( sculpture
alone not being sufficient ) and that too to some degree of eminence , in order to
enable any one to pursue the chain of this enquiry PREFACE .
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... by often copying and retaining strong ideas of graceful antique statues ; which
might sufficiently serve their purposes as painters , without their troubling
themselves with a farther enquiry into the particular causes of the effects before
them .
... by often copying and retaining strong ideas of graceful antique statues ; which
might sufficiently serve their purposes as painters , without their troubling
themselves with a farther enquiry into the particular causes of the effects before
them .
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... I cannot allow that this alone would have been a sufficient motive to have made
me risk giving offence to any ; had not another consideration , besides that
already alledged , of more consequence to the purpose in hand , made it
necessary .
... I cannot allow that this alone would have been a sufficient motive to have made
me risk giving offence to any ; had not another consideration , besides that
already alledged , of more consequence to the purpose in hand , made it
necessary .
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But as every one may not have had an opportunity of being sufficiently
acquainted with the instances , P . , that have been given : I will offer one of a
familiar kind , which may be a hint for their observing a thousand more . How
gradually does ...
But as every one may not have had an opportunity of being sufficiently
acquainted with the instances , P . , that have been given : I will offer one of a
familiar kind , which may be a hint for their observing a thousand more . How
gradually does ...
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... knew how to correct such apparent disproportions . These few examples may
be sufficient to give an idea of what I mean , ( and would have understood ) by .
the beauty of fitness , or propriety . CHAPTER II . OF VARIETY . How great a
share.
... knew how to correct such apparent disproportions . These few examples may
be sufficient to give an idea of what I mean , ( and would have understood ) by .
the beauty of fitness , or propriety . CHAPTER II . OF VARIETY . How great a
share.
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