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A generous action described in words or colours , occasions a sensible emotion ,
as well as when we fee Thai an abstract idea , which serves ... Thus a spreading
oak raises a pleasant emotion , by means of its colour , figure , umbrage , & c .
A generous action described in words or colours , occasions a sensible emotion ,
as well as when we fee Thai an abstract idea , which serves ... Thus a spreading
oak raises a pleasant emotion , by means of its colour , figure , umbrage , & c .
Page 267
Magnitude is undoubtedly a real property of bodies , not less than figure , and
more than colour . Figure and colour , even in the same body , produce separate
emotions , which are never misapprehended one for the other . Why Thould not ...
Magnitude is undoubtedly a real property of bodies , not less than figure , and
more than colour . Figure and colour , even in the same body , produce separate
emotions , which are never misapprehended one for the other . Why Thould not ...
Page 268
But the beauty of colour comes in happily to enable us to make the distinction .
For the emotion of colour unites with that of figure , not less intimately than
grandeur does with either . Yet the emotion of colour is distinguishable from that
of figure ...
But the beauty of colour comes in happily to enable us to make the distinction .
For the emotion of colour unites with that of figure , not less intimately than
grandeur does with either . Yet the emotion of colour is distinguishable from that
of figure ...
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| Title | Elements of Criticism, Volume 1 Classics in art and literary criticism Elements of Criticism, Lord Henry Home Kames |
| Author | Lord Henry Home Kames |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967 |
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