The Analysis of Beauty: Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of TasteR. Scholey, 1810 |
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... taken several passages to my purpose . Let us now endeavour to discover what light antiquity throws upon the subject in question . Egypt first , and afterward Greece , have manifested by their works their great skill in arts and ...
... taken several passages to my purpose . Let us now endeavour to discover what light antiquity throws upon the subject in question . Egypt first , and afterward Greece , have manifested by their works their great skill in arts and ...
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... taken from a print published by Mr. Pond , designed by Cav ' . Ghezzi at Rome . To those , then , whose judgments are unpre- judiced , this little work is submitted with most pleasure ; because it is from such that I have hitherto ...
... taken from a print published by Mr. Pond , designed by Cav ' . Ghezzi at Rome . To those , then , whose judgments are unpre- judiced , this little work is submitted with most pleasure ; because it is from such that I have hitherto ...
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... taken possession of the mind ? -so vague is taste , when it has no solid principles for its foundation ! Notwithstanding I have told you my design of considering minutely the variety of lines , which serve to raise the ideas of bodies ...
... taken possession of the mind ? -so vague is taste , when it has no solid principles for its foundation ! Notwithstanding I have told you my design of considering minutely the variety of lines , which serve to raise the ideas of bodies ...
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... taken out at pleasure , but not before all the parts of them , which appear out of the wax , are carefully painted close up to the wax , of a different co- lour from those that lie within it . By these P.11 means the horizontal and ...
... taken out at pleasure , but not before all the parts of them , which appear out of the wax , are carefully painted close up to the wax , of a different co- lour from those that lie within it . By these P.11 means the horizontal and ...
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... taken away by their running into perspective , without losing the idea of fitness : and when he is of necessity obliged to give the front of a building , with all its equalities and parallelisms , he generally breaks ( as it is termed ) ...
... taken away by their running into perspective , without losing the idea of fitness : and when he is of necessity obliged to give the front of a building , with all its equalities and parallelisms , he generally breaks ( as it is termed ) ...
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The Analysis of Beauty: Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas ... William Hogarth Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
The Analysis of Beauty: Written with a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas ... William Hogarth Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Términos y frases comunes
Albert Durer ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY ancients Andrea Sacchi Antinous antique appear Beau Ideal body breadth called CHAPTER character chiefly colours common composed composition conceived cone considered contrary cuticula dancing degree dimensions disagreeable distance distinct doth dress effect elegant endeavour equal expressed face figure fitness give given gradating hand head horn idea imagination imitate kind Lamozzo legs length light and shade limbs line of beauty lour manner means ments midal mind minuet motion move movements muscles nature hath objects observed ornamental ovolo painters painting particular pencil perfect perly plain lines plate pleasing prime tints principles proper proportion Protogenes purpose quantity reader retiring shade riety round sculpture seen serpen serpentine line serpentine-lines shapes shew shewn simplicity Sir Christopher Wren sort species statue straight lines sufficient supposed surface taken taste tion turns twisted understood uniform varied variety waving line waving-line whole winding wires
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Página 4 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, And own no other function : each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Página 3 - His tawny beard was th' equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face ; In cut and dye so like a tile, A sudden view it would beguile ; The upper part whereof was whey, The nether orange, mix'd with grey.
Página 25 - It is a pleasing labour of the mind to solve the most difficult problems; allegories and riddles, trifling as they are, afford the mind amusement: and with what delight does it follow the wellconnected thread of a play, or novel, which ever increases as the plot thickens, and ends most pleas'd, when that is most distinctly unravell'd?
Página 3 - With regard to character and expression ; we have daily many instances which confirm the common received opinion, that the face is the index of the mind...
Página 26 - The eye hath this sort of enjoyment in winding walks, and serpentine rivers, and all sorts of objects, whose forms, as we shall see hereafter, are composed principally of what, I call, the waving and serpentine lines.
Página 27 - ... move successively with it from letter to letter, the whole length of the line: but if the eye stops at any particular letter, A, to observe it more than the rest, these other letters will grow more and more imperfect to the sight, the farther they are situated on either side of A, as is expressed in the figure: and when we endeavour to see all the letters...