Essay On Beauty By Francis Lord Jeffrey And Essays On The Nature And Principles Of Taste By A Alison Repr Of The 5th Ed

Author : Sir Archibald Alison
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230261669
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste written by Sir Archibald Alison and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ... SECTION II. Of the Relative Beauty of Forms. Besides those qualities of which Forms in themselves are expressive to us, and which constitute what I have called their Natural Beauty, there are other qualities of which they are the Signs, from their being the subjects of Art, or produced by Wisdom or Design, for some end. Whatever is the effect of Art, naturally leads us to the consideration of that Art which is its cause, and of that End or purpose for which it was produced. When we discover skill or wisdom in the one, or usefulness or propriety in the other, we are conscious of a very pleasing Emotion; and the Forms which we have iound by experience to be associated with such qualities, become naturally and necessarily expressive of them, and affect us with the Emotions which properly belong to the qualities they signify. There is therefore an additional source of Beauty in Forms, from the Expression of such qualities; which, for the sake of perspicuity, I shall beg leave to call their Relative Beauty. Every work of Design may be considered in one or other of the following lights: Either in relation to the Art or Design which produced it, --to the nature of its Construction for the purpose or end intended, --or to the nature of the End which it is thus destined to serve; and its Beauty accordingly depends, either upon the excellence or wisdom of this Design, upon the Fitness or propriety of this construction, or upon the Utility of this end. The considerations of Design, of Fitness, and of Utility, therefore, may be considered as the three great sources of the Relative Beauty of Forms. In many cases, this Beauty arises from all these Expressions together; but it may be useful to consider them separately, and to remark the peculiar.