An essay On the picturesqueJ. Mawman, 1810 - Landscape gardening |
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... passages of the poets , 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 ...
... passages of the poets , 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 ...
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... passages so very plainly shew how little I presumed to suppose our ideas were clearly settled , that no person , who had read the book with any degree of atten- tion , could have made such a remark ; and I must say , that whoever does ...
... passages so very plainly shew how little I presumed to suppose our ideas were clearly settled , that no person , who had read the book with any degree of atten- tion , could have made such a remark ; and I must say , that whoever does ...
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... passages very gene- rally acknowledged , I could wish that he and his learned friends , would take the trouble of examining such passages in Homer , Virgil , Shakspeare , Milton , and all the poets who are most eminent for their ...
... passages very gene- rally acknowledged , I could wish that he and his learned friends , would take the trouble of examining such passages in Homer , Virgil , Shakspeare , Milton , and all the poets who are most eminent for their ...
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... passages in poe- try will of course present themselves to a person so well read in the classics as Mr. Mason , but I will ... passage which Longinus has particularly dwelt upon : it is that celebrated one in the Iliad * , where Homer has ...
... passages in poe- try will of course present themselves to a person so well read in the classics as Mr. Mason , but I will ... passage which Longinus has particularly dwelt upon : it is that celebrated one in the Iliad * , where Homer has ...
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... passage , according to my idea , in Virgil , or perhaps in any other poet , is that magnificent personification of a ... passages of terror , what remains ? In this last particularly , the sublime opposition between the cause and the ...
... passage , according to my idea , in Virgil , or perhaps in any other poet , is that magnificent personification of a ... passages of terror , what remains ? In this last particularly , the sublime opposition between the cause and the ...
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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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Page 190 - 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.
Page 132 - 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.
Page 97 - 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.
Page 87 - 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.
Page 190 - 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.
Page 116 - 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...
Page 51 - 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.
Page 89 - ... 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.
Page 63 - 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.
Page 165 - ... 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.