An essay On the picturesqueJ. Mawman, 1810 |
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... respecting the banks of rivers : none of them applicable to those of Mr. Brown's artificial water No professor has endeavoured to make an artificial like a natural river ; though he would be proud of having it mistaken for one 305 311 ...
... respecting the banks of rivers : none of them applicable to those of Mr. Brown's artificial water No professor has endeavoured to make an artificial like a natural river ; though he would be proud of having it mistaken for one 305 311 ...
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... respect to the art of improving , we may look upon pictures as a set of experiments of the different ways in which trees , build- ings , water , & c . may be disposed , grouped , and accompanied , in the most beautiful and striking ...
... respect to the art of improving , we may look upon pictures as a set of experiments of the different ways in which trees , build- ings , water , & c . may be disposed , grouped , and accompanied , in the most beautiful and striking ...
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... respect to his own art , may think of those only , and give himself no concern about the rest , he cannot do so if he be an improver as well as a painter ; for he might then neglect or injure what was essential to the whole , by ...
... respect to his own art , may think of those only , and give himself no concern about the rest , he cannot do so if he be an improver as well as a painter ; for he might then neglect or injure what was essential to the whole , by ...
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... respects , with all its health and vigour cannot exhibit . This careless method of cutting , just as the farmer happened to want a few stakes or poles , gives infinite variety to the gene- ral outline of the banks . Near to one of these ...
... respects , with all its health and vigour cannot exhibit . This careless method of cutting , just as the farmer happened to want a few stakes or poles , gives infinite variety to the gene- ral outline of the banks . Near to one of these ...
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... respect , it must be owned , the clump has infinite merit ; for it may be reconnoitred from every point , and seen through in every direction . VOL . I. * Spoilers . D quantity of earth wheeled , and the nicety with which 33.
... respect , it must be owned , the clump has infinite merit ; for it may be reconnoitred from every point , and seen through in every direction . VOL . I. * Spoilers . D quantity of earth wheeled , and the nicety with which 33.
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according admired animals appearance arbutus banks breadth broken Brown buildings Burke called Caravaggio character charm circumstances Claude clumps colour colours of spring Correggio deciduous deformity degree delight distinct effect equally evergreen plantation expression firs foliage fresh gardening Gilpin give grand grandeur ground harmony idea of beauty imitation impression improver intricacy kind landscape less light and shadow lines look manner means ment mind monotony naked nature neral ness objects observed opposite ornament outline painter Palladian architecture peculiar perhaps Picturesque Beauty Pietro da Cortona plantations planted pleasure prevail principles produced qualities of beauty racter Rembrandt Repton rich riety river rough Salvator Rosa scenery scenes seems sense shade shew shewn single tree Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds smooth soft spect striking style sublime sudden supposed symmetry taste thing tints tion Titian ture turesque ugliness uniform varied variety whole wood word
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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.