An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste

Richard Payne Knight

Luke Hansard, 1805 - Art - 471 pages

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INTRODUCTION p	1

In Building Furniture Gardening and Dress	2

In imitative	3

In Style	4

In the Productions of Nature	5

Of the Word Beauty	6

Applied to intellectual as well as sensible Qualities	7

Variations in its Meaning	8

Consequences of Obscurity being thought Su blime	83

Belong to Character and Expression and not to particular Lines and Forms	84

In inanimate as well as animal Bodies	85

Dignity and Elegance wherein different	86

Dancing	87

Grace of Savages	88

Of the Greeks	89

Lines of Grace	90

As to the Sexes in Mankind	9

Mr Humes Opinion considered	10

Sexual Tastes of Brutes	11

Double Meaning of the word Taste	12

How violated in the dead Languages	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

p	19

Grottesques	20

Its Organs 2 Primary or simple Sensation 3 Variation	21

Consequence of Mr Burkes Doctrine of Beauty	22

Mr Burkes System compared with that of Sir Joshua Reynolds	23

Illustrated by Examples of the Temples of Vesta and Indian Domes	24

The latter further examined Mental Sympathies	25

Beauties of Colour and Form in Animals Ap propriated Beauties of particular Kinds de pending on Habit Irregularity	26

Sexual Predilectionstheir Influence and Ef fects	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

Particularly in Vision	33

Irritation	34

Its Effect in reducing the Pleasures of Sense	35

Its Principles	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

Inverted Action of the Nerves Cessation	41

In Decorations of Grounds	42

OF HEARING	43

Symmetryin Animals	44

In different Individuals 6 Mixed Flavours 7 8 Vitiated and morbid Palates 9 Their Pleasures and Habits	45

Its Reasons	46

Its Origin and Progress	47

Refinement and Excessopposed to the Gothic Principle 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	52

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

Sudden Love	58

OF SIGHT	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 Lor ginus and all others known	64

Considered in its different Graduations of R spect	65

Astonishment and Terror as applicable to	66

Noxious and innocent Tame and wild Ani mals	70

Dog Game Cock	71

Ulyssess	72

Destroying and preserving Powers compared as to Energy	73

as to the Effect of that Energy in the Sublime	74

Description and Reality compared	75

Illustrated by Virgils Bees	76

By Homers Moor Fowl	77

Acquired Tastes	78

Passage of Horace explained	79

Mr Burkes Opinion of Description examined	80

Obscurity Things distinct and Things deter minate	81

Energies Images Virgils forging of the Thunderbolts Homers Girdle of Venus	82

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

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In Lodges Cottages Gateways	101

Situations	102

Sir John Vanbrugh	103

Mr Brown	104

Made Water	105

Walks	106

Smallness of Size	107

In Women In Animals or other Objects	108

Gradual Diminution or Tapering	109

General Rules	110

In Morals	111

Affections Abstract Principles	112

Their Effects	113

Pastoral Love in Theocritus	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

Public Schools of Rhetoric their Effect on the Latin Language	121

Freedom of Study its Effect on the Greek	122

On the English 1 124 Instanced in Dr Blairs Criticism on a Passage of Pope	123

Criticism examined	125

The Passage justified by others from Euripides and Shakespeare	126

tion Order of the Understanding	127

Its Causes 2 Primary Effects Projection 3 Distance	149

Artificial Perceptionhow far independent of organic Sensation	172

Sculpture compared with Painting 66 Forms appropriate to Sculpture 67 Sculpturesque	192

Grottesque	193

Other distinct Characters as 70 Classical 71 Romantic 72 Pastoral	195

Uniformity and Regularity	198

Irregularity and Mutilation 77 As affecting general Characteristics or Mental Sympathies	200

Degrees of Sensibility in the Organs Effects	204

As differently perceived by the Mind or the Eye 79 Mr Prices Illustration 80 His general Mistake of Ideas for Things 81 Deceptions of sexual and soc...	205

Regularity and Irregularity in Features and Attitudes	210

In the Coats of Animals 14 In Buildings Gardens Pieces of Water	217

Their moral Effects	236

OF JUDGMENT	259

Judgment in what it consists 2 Reason as applied to Taste 3 Demonstration and Analogy 4 Laws of Nature 5 In Matters of Demonstration in Matters o...	261

Cæsar	268

Probability in Epic Fiction 11 In Dramatic	269

Oratory 14 Acting	279

Epic and Dramatic License in Fiction their Difference	306

OF THE PASSIONS p	315

In the Passions	325

Sympathy	329

Semblance of Truth 3 Mr Burkes Opinion 4 Examined as	375

Treatise on Oriental Gardening Experiment	379

In Attitude and Countenance Raphael Rem brandt	412

Wit as opposed to Judgment as exciting Mirth 6 Ludicrous as opposed to sublime Imagery 7 Humour 8 Parodies	414

Incongruities in Dress Deportment and Dialect	416

Mimicry 11 Good Nature and Good Humour wherein dif ferent	418

Sympathy in Joy Contrast	419

Selfish Passions ludicrous	420

tried	422

In Love and Marriage	425

OF NOVELTY	426

Fiction and Reality 6 Degrees of Sympathy Romans Asiatics 7 Sympathies with Exertion not with Suffering please	428

All unvaried Continuity tires 2 Change therefore necessary 3 The Cause of corrupt Taste In Literature 4 In Art 5 Abuse of Words	431

Imitative	435

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Bibliographic information

Title	An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste
Author	Richard Payne Knight
Edition	2
Publisher	Luke Hansard, 1805
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	6 Nov 2008
ISBN	0598013229, 9780598013224
Length	471 pages
Subjects	Art › General Art / General

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