 Not to mention, that the same excellence of faculties which contributes to the improvement of reason, the same clearness of conception, the same exactness of distinction, the same vivacity of apprehension, are essential to the operations of true taste,...  The Architectural Magazine - Page 124edited by - 1837 - 39 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1804 - 592 pages
...taste and invention, a poet can never hope to succeed in so delicate an undertaking. Not to mention, that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...conception, the same exactness of distinction, the same-vivacity of apprehension, are essential to the operations of true taste, and are its infallible... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1809 - 868 pages
...taste and invention, a poet can never hope to succeed in so delicate ian undertaking. Not to mention, that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...of true taste, and are its infallible concomitants. It seldom or never happens, that a man of sense, who has experience in any art, cannot judge of its... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1817 - 564 pages
...to succeed in so delicate an under* taking. Not to mention, that the same excellence of fa* culties which contributes to the improvement of reason, the...of true taste, and are its infallible concomitants. It seldom or never happens, that a man of sense, who has experience in any art, cannot judge of its... | |
 | Alexander Walker - Aesthetics - 1836 - 528 pages
...possession of a brain capable of vigorous thought, sound judgment, and exquisite taste, Hume observes that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...apprehension, are essential to the operations of true taste. Here again, those who take these true, but vague and inconclusive views, should, I think, have seen... | |
 | Alexander Walker - Beauty, Personal - 1840 - 434 pages
...possession of a brain capable of vigorous thought, sound judgment, and exquisite taste, Hume observes that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...apprehension, are essential to the operations of true taste. Here, again, those who take these true, but vague and inconclusive views, should, I think, have seen... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 586 pages
...taste and invention, a poet can never hope to succeed in so delicate an undertaking. Not to mention, that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...of true taste, and are its infallible concomitants. It seldom or never happens, that a man of sense, who has experience in any art, cannot judge of its... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...taste and invention, a poet can never hope to succeed in so delicate an undertaking; not to mention that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...of true taste, and are its infallible concomitants. It seldom or never happens that a man of sense who has experience in any art can not judge of its beauty;... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics, Modern - 1889 - 530 pages
...taste and invention, a poet can never hope to succeed in so delicate an undertaking. Not to mention, that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...of true taste, and are its infallible concomitants. It seldom, or never happens, that a man of sense, who has experience in any art, cannot judge of its... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - English essays - 1910 - 450 pages
...taste and invention, a poet can never hope to succeed in so delicate an undertaking. Not to mention, that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...of true taste, and are its infallible concomitants. It seldom or never happens, that a man of sense, who has experience in any art, cannot judge of its... | |
 | Stephen David Ross - Art - 1984 - 590 pages
...taste and invention, a poet can never hope to succeed in so delicate an undertaking. Not to mention, that the same excellence of faculties which contributes...of true taste, and are its infallible concomitants. It seldom, or never happens, that a man of sense, who has experience in any art, cannot judge of its... | |
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