Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Archibald Alison

 
9781331557258: Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Su'ch as to correspond to this effect, or to increase it, we immediately conclude, that the Composition is good, and yield our: Selves willingly to its in?uence; If, lastly, amidst such a scene, we find circumstances introduced, Which have no relation to the' general Expression; if F orms of Gaiety and Gloom, Greatness and Ornament, Rudeness and Tranquillity, &c.' are min: gled together without any attention to one determinate effect, we turn with indignation from the confusion, and conclude, that the Composition is defective in its first princi-a ?ples. In all cases of this kind, we become 'sensible of the Beauty of Composition, only when the scene has some general character, to which the different F orms in Composi {tion can refer; and determine its Beauty y the effect of this union in maintaining r promoting this general Expression. The same observation may be extended to the.

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