An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste

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Payne, 1805 - 471 páginas

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As to the Sexes in Mankind
9
Mr Humes Opinion considered
10
Sexual Tastes of Brutes
11
Double meaning of the Word Taste
12
Various Pleasures of Cessation or inverted Action
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
Adverse Opinions of Mr Price and Boileau
19
OF SENSATION
20
Mixed Qualities and Sensations further explained
21
Consequence of Mr Burkes Doctrine of Beauty
22
Mr Burkes System compared with that of Sir Jo shua Reynolds
23
The latter further examined Mental Sympathies 5 Beauties of Colour and Form in Animals
24
English Verseits Nature and Character
25
Appropriated Beauties of particular Kinds depending on Habit Irregularity
26
Sexual Predilectionstheir Influence and Effects
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
Their different Effects in Poetry
33
Various Effects of Verse
34
Vicious Modes of pronouncing Greek and Latin
35
Why they do not destroy the Character of Verse
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
Improperly copied and applied to Houses
41
In Decorations of Grounds
42
Ancient Coins c why interesting
43
Symmetryin Animals
44
In the Orders of Architecture
45
Its Reasons
46
Its Origin and Progress
47
Refinement and Excessopposed to the Gothic Prin ciple 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
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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
Its Causes CHAP V OF SIGHT
58
Love as existing among civilized and savage Men and brute Animals comparatively considered
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 Longi nus and all others known
64
Pastoral Love in Theocritus
65
Forms appropriate to Sculpture
66
Sculpturesque
67
Irregularity and Mutilation
76
As affecting general Characteristics or Mental Sym pathies
77
As differently perceived by the Mind or the
78
Mr Prices Illustration
79
His general Mistake of Ideas for Things
80
Deceptions of sexual and social Sympathies
81
Regularity and Irregularity in Features and Atti tudes
82
Ease Grace Elegance and Dignity of Gesture and Attitude
83
Belong to Character and Expression and not to par ticular Lines and Forms
84
Primary Effects Projection 3 Distance
85
Dignity and Elegance wherein different
86
Enthusiastic Language Heroic Style
87
Lyric Style Pindar Sophocles Gray
88
Miltons Imagery sometimes obscure not so in the Instance quoted by Mr Burke
89
Lines of Grace
90
Influence of Authority
91
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
Trick and Affectation in Houses
99
Its Organs 2 Primary or simple Sensation 3 Variation
101
Situations
102
Sir John Vanbrugh
103
Mr Brown
104
Made Water
105
Walks
106
Smallness of Size
107
7 Dancing
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
OF IMAGINATION
132
Its Effects on Temper and Disposition Lunacy 3 Intoxication
133
Dreams 5 Anxiety Grief and Vexation 6 Vivacity Wit Madness
134
Particularly in Vision
198
Grace of Savages
208
Semblance of Truth 3 Mr Burkes Opinion 4 Examined as
247
Cæsar
265
Of the Greeks
270
Fiction and Reality
277
Roman Mime of Laureolus 9 Fights of Gladiators
323
Visible Magnitude 5 Error of Mr Burke 6 Irritationits Effects on the Organ 7 Pleasures and Pains Colours
359
OF NOVELTY
425
Irritation
426
In different Individuals
429
Michael Angelo Greek Artists
434

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