The Psychology of BeautyHoughton, Mifflin, 1905 - 286 էջ |
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action aesthetic æsthetic emotion æsthetic experience æsthetic feeling æsthetic pleasure analysis Aristotle attention attitude balance basilar membrane beauty of literature belongs centre clear color combination complementary color complete composition consciousness consonance criticism definition of beauty demands drama ecstasy effect elements equilibrium essential excitement explanation expression fact favorable stimulation felt function Giorgione give given harmony Hegel idea ideal imitation Katharsis less literary logical Madame Guyon Madonna means Meister Eckhart melody ment minor second moral motor impulses movement Nature of Beauty ness organism perfect perfect moment personality physiological picture pity and fear play possible principle psychological PSYCHOLOGY OF BEAUTY psychophysical pyramid question relation religious ecstasy Rembrandt reproduction rhythm rhythmical self-completeness sensation sense Sistine Madonna suggestion symmetry tendency theory thought tion tonality tone tragedy tragic true unity vista visual form vivid whole words
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Էջ 61 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, iptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness...
Էջ 254 - Spirit overhead will look humanely malign, and cast an oblique light on them, followed by volleys of silvery laughter.
Էջ 254 - Men's future upon earth does not attract it; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it sees them self-deceived or hoodwinked, given to run riot in idolatries, drifting into vanities, congregating in absurdities, planning short-sightedly, plotting dementedly...
Էջ 233 - ... to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion: for so in physic things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours.
Էջ 63 - And up and down, and in and out, He turned; but still the pigtail stout Hung steadily behind him. And though his efforts never slack, And though he twist, and...
Էջ 226 - NEVER the time and the place And the loved one all together ! This path— how soft to pace ! This May — what magic weather ! Where is the loved one's face? In a dream that loved one's face meets mine, But the house is narrow, the place is bleak Where, outside, rain and wind combine With a furtive ear, if I strive to speak, With a hostile eye at my flushing...
Էջ 212 - The one word for the one thing, the one thought, amid the multitude of words, terms, that might just do: the problem of style was there!— the unique word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, essay, or song, absolutely proper to the single mental presentation or vision within.
Էջ 211 - All the laws of good writing aim at a similar unity or identity of the mind in all the processes by which the word . is associated to its import. The term is right, and has its essential beauty, when it becomes, in a manner, what it signifies, as with the names of simple sensations.
Էջ 233 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Էջ 87 - To draw one beauty into our hearts' core, And keep it changeless ! such our claim So answered, — Never more ! XIV. Simple ? Why this is the old woe o' the world ; Tune, to whose rise and fall we live and die. Rise with it, then ! Rejoice that man is hurled From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled ! xv.