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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... nature . This part , the most curious and interest- ing to a speculative mind , will be least so to those , who think only of what has a di- rect and immediate reference to the ar- rangement of scenery : that , indeed , it has not ; but ...
... nature . This part , the most curious and interest- ing to a speculative mind , will be least so to those , who think only of what has a di- rect and immediate reference to the ar- rangement of scenery : that , indeed , it has not ; but ...
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... nature alone , without having ac- quired any just principles of selection . my I believe , however , that this part ... natural conclusion , and often justified , that an author is par- tial to the particular subject on which he has ...
... nature alone , without having ac- quired any just principles of selection . my I believe , however , that this part ... natural conclusion , and often justified , that an author is par- tial to the particular subject on which he has ...
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... nature , and no inconsiderable share of their relish for her beauties , by an easier process - by studying their works . study , has one great advantage over most others ; there are no dry elements to strug- gle with . Pictures , as ...
... nature , and no inconsiderable share of their relish for her beauties , by an easier process - by studying their works . study , has one great advantage over most others ; there are no dry elements to strug- gle with . Pictures , as ...
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... nature : like that extraordinary work , they are at once the amusement of childhood and ignorance , and the delight , instruction , and admiration , of the highest and most cultivated minds . It is not , however , to be supposed , that ...
... nature : like that extraordinary work , they are at once the amusement of childhood and ignorance , and the delight , instruction , and admiration , of the highest and most cultivated minds . It is not , however , to be supposed , that ...
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... nature . The artist's design in real scenery , must change with the growth and decay of trees : the only unchanging compositions , are in the designs of painters .... Distinction between the painter and the improver Between looking at ...
... nature . The artist's design in real scenery , must change with the growth and decay of trees : the only unchanging compositions , are in the designs of painters .... Distinction between the painter and the improver Between looking at ...
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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.