On Beauty: Three Discourses Delivered in the University of EdinburghSutherland and Knox, 1858 - 270 Seiten |
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1817 LIBRARIES according admirable æsthetical Alison altogether angles architecture Aristophanes Aristotle artist association belongs called cause character colour congruity contrast creature curious delight dialogue discourse divine divine madness doctrine doubt Edinburgh effect element of beauty emotion Encyclopædia Britannica essentially eternal excellent exhibition existence expression fact faculty feeling figure force fundamental Goethe graceful greater Hippias Greek harmony HESIOD Hippias Hippias Major human ideas imagination impression inherent intellect kind language light means merely mind modern moral nature necessary never object painter painting Parthenon perfect person Phædrus Philebus philosophy plain Plato pleasure poet poetry principle produce proportion reason rectangle remarks rich scalene triangles scientific sense sensuous significance Sir William Hamilton Socrates sophism soul sublime symmetry taste things tical tion triangles true truth unity UNIVERSITY University of Edinburgh variety virtue whole wise word writer γὰρ δὲ καὶ τὸ
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Seite 99 - How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads, Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!
Seite 77 - I do not say that the art is greatest which imitates best, because perhaps there is some art whose end is to create, and not to imitate. But I say that the art is greatest, which conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatsoever, the greatest number of the greatest ideas...
Seite 25 - Why we receive pleasure from some forms and colours, and not from others, is no more to be asked or answered than why we like sugar and dislike wormwood.
Seite 261 - There are two Causes of Beauty, natural and customary. Natural is from Geometry, consisting in Uniformity (that is Equality) and Proportion. Customary Beauty is begotten by the Use of our Senses to those Objects which are usually pleasing to us for other Causes, as Familiarity or particular Inclination breeds a Love to Things not in themselves lovely. Here lies the great Occasion of Errors; here is tried the Architect's Judgment: but always the true Test is natural or geometrical Beauty.
Seite 149 - Form, in its widest meaning, the visible universe that envelopes our senses, and its counterpart, the invisible one, that agitates our mind with visions bred on sense by fancy, are the element and realm of invention : it discovers, selects, combines the possible, the probable, the known, in a mode that strikes •with an air of truth and novelty.
Seite 161 - The most obvious, and the strongest association that can be established between inward feelings and external objects is, where the object is necessarily and universally connected with the feeling by the law of nature, so that it is always presented to the senses when the feeling is impressed upon the mind — as the sight or the sound of laughter, with the feeling of gaiety — of weeping, with distress — of the sound of thunder, with ideas of danger and power.
Seite 86 - I should attempt to investigate the principles on which colours, Forms, or motion, give pleasure to the eye. With the greater 'part of Mr. Alison's remarks on these qualities, I perfectly agree; although, in the case of the first, I am disposed to ascribe more to the mere organic impression, independently of any association or expression whatever, than he seems willing to allow.
Seite vi - By sin i' the blood, — his spirit-insight dulled And crossed by his sensations. Presently He feels it quicken in the dark sometimes, When, mark, be reverent, be obedient, For such dumb motions of imperfect life Are oracles of vital Deity Attesting the Hereafter. Let who says "The soul's a clean white paper," rather say, A palimpsest, a prophet's holograph Defiled, erased and covered by a monk's, — The apocalypse, by a Longus ! poring on Which obscene text, we may discern perhaps Some fair, fine...
Seite 104 - Never is piety more unwise than when she casts beauty out of the church, and by this excommunication forces her fairest sister to become profane. It is the duty of religion not to eject, but to cherish and seek fellowship with every beautiful exhibition which delights, and every delicate art which embellishes human life. So, on the other hand, it is the duty of art not to waste its high capabilities in the imitation of what is trivial, and in the curious adornment of what has only a finite significance....