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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... mixed with ugliness . . . . . . The excess of the qualities of beauty , tend to insipidity : those of picturesqueness to deformity . - Anecdote of an Anato- . mist . Note .. Application to improvements 6. 204 ... 207 Beauty ...
... mixed with ugliness . . . . . . The excess of the qualities of beauty , tend to insipidity : those of picturesqueness to deformity . - Anecdote of an Anato- . mist . Note .. Application to improvements 6. 204 ... 207 Beauty ...
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... mixed with trees , that the tops overhang their balustrades , and the luxuriant branches shoot between the openings of their magnificent columns and porticos : as he would not suffer his own buildings to be so masked , neither would he ...
... mixed with trees , that the tops overhang their balustrades , and the luxuriant branches shoot between the openings of their magnificent columns and porticos : as he would not suffer his own buildings to be so masked , neither would he ...
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... mixed and blended together , and the border of the road itself , shaped by the mere tread of passengers and animals , is as unconstrained as the footsteps that formed it . Even the tracks of the wheels ( for no circumstance is ...
... mixed and blended together , and the border of the road itself , shaped by the mere tread of passengers and animals , is as unconstrained as the footsteps that formed it . Even the tracks of the wheels ( for no circumstance is ...
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... mixed with the fantastic roots of trees and the varied tints of the soil , from that which they produce when they are trimmed into bushes , or crawl along a shrubbery , where the ground has been worked into one uniform slope . In the ...
... mixed with the fantastic roots of trees and the varied tints of the soil , from that which they produce when they are trimmed into bushes , or crawl along a shrubbery , where the ground has been worked into one uniform slope . In the ...
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... as clearly marked , and may be as successfully studied , as where the higher styles of it , often mixed with the sublime , are displayed among forests , rocks , and mountains . * CHAPTER III . THERE are few words , whose meaning 36.
... as clearly marked , and may be as successfully studied , as where the higher styles of it , often mixed with the sublime , are displayed among forests , rocks , and mountains . * CHAPTER III . THERE are few words , whose meaning 36.
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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.