An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste

Richard Payne Knight

T. Payne, 1806 - Aesthetics - 473 pages

Contents

• Libr Jow 3443 46936 iii CONTENTS 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
• 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
• Irritation: 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
• Progress of Perception: 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
• Improperly copied and applied to Houses: 41
• Inverted Action of the Nerves Cessation: 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
• OF SIGHT: 57
• Sudden Love: 58
• Love as existing among civilized and savage Men and brute Animals comparatively con sidered: 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 Lon ginus and all others known: 64
• Considered in its different Graduations of Re spect: 65
• Astonishment and Terror as applicable to him: 66
• Its Causes 2 Primary Effects Projection 3 Distance: 69
• Noxious and Innocent Tame and Wild Ani mals Game Cock: 70
• 71: 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
• Visible Magnitude 5 Error of Mr Burke: 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
• Ease Grace Elegance and Dignity of Gesture and Attitude: 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
• 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
• In the Coats of Animals 14 In Buildings Gardens Pieces of Water: 97
• Exemplified: 98
• p: 99
• 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 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
• fective: 129
• All unvaried Continuity tires 2 Change therefore necessary 3 The Cause of corrupt Taste In Literature 4 In: 171
• Artificial Perceptionhow far independent of organic Sensation: 172
• Sculpture compared with Painting 66 Forms appropriate to Sculpture: 192
• Sculpturesque: 193
• Grottesque: 194
• Other distinct Characters as 70 Classical 71 Romantic: 195
• Pastoral: 196
• Uniformity and Regularity: 198
• Irregularity and Mutilation 77 As affecting general Characteristics or Mental Sympathies: 200
• 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 So...: 205
• Regularity and Irregularity in Features and Attitudes: 210
• Their moral Effects: 238
• OF JUDGMENT: 262
• 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...: 264
• Probability in Epic Fiction 11 In Dramatic: 272
• Oratory 14 Acting: 282
• Fiction and Reality: 283
• Epic and Dramatic License in Fiction their Difference: 309
• Roman Mime of Laureolus 9 Fights of Gladiators: 328
• Weakness False Delicacy: 351
• Timidity Modesty 36 Pliability Stubbornness Themistocles 37 Tenacity in Trifles: 354
• Otways Venice Preservd Shakespeares Julius Cæsar: 356
• Achilles: 357
• Treatise on Oriental Gardening Experiments: 382
• Abuse of Words: 394
• tried: 425
• Imitative: 435
• Michael Angelo: 438

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Bibliographic information

• Title: An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste
• Author: Richard Payne Knight
• Edition: 3
• Publisher: T. Payne, 1806
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Aug 23, 2006
• ISBN: 059857946X, 9780598579461
• Length: 473 pages