An essay On the picturesqueJ. Mawman, 1810 |
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... 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 it is a discussion well calculated to give just and enlarged ideas , of what is of no ...
... 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 it is a discussion well calculated to give just and enlarged ideas , of what is of no ...
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... least when compared with a more compre- hensive view of the subject . I have there- fore endeavoured to take the most enlarged view possible , and to include in it whatever had any relation to the character I was occupied in tracing ...
... least when compared with a more compre- hensive view of the subject . I have there- fore endeavoured to take the most enlarged view possible , and to include in it whatever had any relation to the character I was occupied in tracing ...
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... least asserted , that I not only preferred such scenes as were merely rude and pictu- resque , but excluded all others . The second part is built upon the founda- tions laid in the first ; for I have examined the leading features of ...
... least asserted , that I not only preferred such scenes as were merely rude and pictu- resque , but excluded all others . The second part is built upon the founda- tions laid in the first ; for I have examined the leading features of ...
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... least of pointing out , how a much higher relish may be acquired for those , which , though known , are neglected ; and it has given me no small pleasure to find that both my objects have in some degree been attained . That painters do ...
... least of pointing out , how a much higher relish may be acquired for those , which , though known , are neglected ; and it has given me no small pleasure to find that both my objects have in some degree been attained . That painters do ...
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... least our rivals ; but to light and shadow , the supposed triumph of modern , over ancient art : on which account , the professors of painting since its revival , have a still better right to the compliment of so illustrious a ...
... least our rivals ; but to light and shadow , the supposed triumph of modern , over ancient art : on which account , the professors of painting since its revival , have a still better right to the compliment of so illustrious a ...
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Pagrindiniai terminai ir frazės
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190 psl. - 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.
132 psl. - 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.
97 psl. - 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.
87 psl. - 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.
190 psl. - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
116 psl. - 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...
51 psl. - 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.
89 psl. - ... of sublimity. But as the nature of every corrective, must be to take off from the peculiar effect of what it is to correct, so does the picturesque when united to either of the others. It is the coquetry of nature; it makes beauty more amusing, more varied, more playful, but also, Less winning soft, less amiably mild.
63 psl. - 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.
165 psl. - ... 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.