An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste

Richard Payne Knight

Payne, 1805 - 471 páginas

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INTRODUCTION p	1

In Building Furniture Gardening and Dress	2

In imitative	3

In Style	4

In the Productions of Nature	5

Of the Word Beauty	6

Applied to intellectual as well as sensible Qualities	7

Variations in its Meaning	8

Classical	70

Romantic	71

Pastoral	72

Commercial naval agricultural	74

Uniformity and Regularity	75

Irregularity and Mutilation	76

As affecting general Characteristics or Mental Sympathies	77

As differently perceived by the Mind or the	78

As to the Sexes in Mankind	9

Mr Humes Opinion considered	10

Sexual Tastes of Brutes	11

Double Meaning of the word Taste	12

How violated in the dead Languages	13

How far addressed to organic Sense	14

Musical and Poetical Melody	15

Distance and Direction of Sounds	16

Their Grandeur and Sublimity	17

Mixed Qualities and Sensationshow separated	18

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Grottesques	20

Its Organs 2 Primary or simple Sensation 3 Variation	21

Irritation	22

Mr Burkes System compared with that of Sir Joshua Reynolds	23

Illustrated by Examples of the Temples of Vesta and Indian Domes	24

The latter further examined Mental Sympathies	25

Beauties of Colour and Form in Animals Ap propriated Beauties of particular Kinds de pending on Habit Irregularity	26

Sexual Predilectionstheir Influence and Ef fects	27

Force of Lightas reflected	28

As acting directly upon the Eye Mr Burkes Error	29

Darkness Mr Burkes Notion of it examined	30

Other Privations compared with	31

Difficulty of considering Sensation alone	32

Particularly in Vision	33

Progress of Perception	34

Its Effect in reducing the Pleasures of Sense	35

Pliability Stubbornness Themistocles	36

Buildings of the Goths Celts Scandinavians	37

When employed in Houses and Villas	38

Rise and Progress of Monastic or Cathedral Gothic	39

Sacred Architecture of the Greeks and Romans	40

Cessation	41

In Decorations of Grounds	42

OF HEARING	43

Symmetryin Animals	44

In different Individuals 6 Mixed Flavours 7 8 Vitiated and morbid Palates 9 Their Pleasures and Habits	45

Its Reasons	46

Its Origin and Progress	47

Refinement and Excessopposed to the Gothic Principle of Contrast	48

Scale by which the Eye measures	49

Consequent Effects of Proportion in St Peters	50

And of Contrast in Gothic Cathedrals	51

Of Intricacy and Extent	52

Lightness in Sculpture and Building	53

Errors of Imitation in Principles	54

Lightness in Painting Flowing Lines Rubens	55

Corregio	56

Sexual Beautyits Principle	57

Sudden Love	58

OF SIGHT	59

Power of Imagination	60

Sensual and social or sentimental Love	61

Metaphysical Love Petrarch Cowley Waller	62

His progressive Scale of the Sublime	63

Contrary in its Principles to the System of Lor ginus and all others known	64

Pastoral Love in Theocritus	65

Forms appropriate to Sculpture	66

Sculpturesque	67

Grottesque	68

Other distinct Characters	69

Mr Prices Illustration	79

His general Mistake of Ideas for Things	80

Deceptions of sexual and social Sympathies Mistatement	81

Regularity and Irregularity in Features	82

Ease Grace Elegance and Dignity of Gesture and Attitude	83

Belong to Character and Expression and not to particular Lines and Forms	84

In inanimate as well as animal Bodies	85

Dignity and Elegance wherein different	86

Dancing	87

Grace of Savages	88

Of the Greeks	89

Lines of Grace	90

Spiral Columns scooped Pediments	92

In Gardening	93

Clumps and Canals Terraces and Borders	94

Composition in Houses Offices and Plantations	95

Hanging Terraces	96

Irregularity in Architecture	97

Exemplified	98

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In Lodges Cottages Gateways	101

Situations	102

Sir John Vanbrugh	103

Mr Brown	104

Made Water	105

Walks	106

Smallness of Size	107

In Women In Animals or other Objects	108

Gradual Diminution or Tapering	109

General Rules	110

In Morals	111

Affections Abstract Principles	112

Their Effects	113

Whether negative or affirmative	114

In Taste and Manners	115

Academies their Effect on	116

Accounted	117

Mechanical and liberal Arts their Difference	118

Feeling Sentiment and Science in Painting	119

In Sculpture	120

Public Schools of Rhetoric their Effect on the Latin Language	121

Freedom of Study its Effect on the Greek	122

On the English 124 Instanced in Dr Blairs Criticism on a Passage of Pope	123

Criticism examined	125

The Passage justified by others from Euripides and Shakespeare	126

Theoretical Criticism in general	127

Its Causes 2 Primary Effects Projection 3 Distance	149

Artificial Perceptionhow far independent of organic Sensation	172

Degrees of Sensibility in the Organs Effects	204

Attitudes	210

In the Coats of Animais 14 In Buildings Gardens Pieces of Water	217

Their moral Effects	236

Judgment in what it consists 2 Reason as applied to Taste 3 Demonstration and Analogy 4 Laws of Nature 5 In Matters of Demonstration in Matters o...	261

Cæsar	268

Achilles	269

Probability in Epic Fiction 11 In Dramatic	293

Oratory 14 Acting	332

Epic and Dramatic License in Fiction their Difference	333

Treatise on Oriental Gardening Experiment	379

tried	422

Imitative	435

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Título	An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste
Autor	Richard Payne Knight
Edición	2
Editor	Payne, 1805
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Oxford
Digitalizado	9 Jul. 2008
ISBN	0598013229, 9780598013224
Largo	471 páginas

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