Volume 1

Essays on the nature and principles of taste / by Archibald Alison.

  • Alison, Archibald, 1757-1839.
Date:
1817
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Credit: Essays on the nature and principles of taste / by Archibald Alison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    SECTION ir. That unless this exercise of imaginatioir IS excited, ttfe emotions of Beauty'or Subli- mity are unfelt, seems capable of illustra- tion, from many instances of a very familiar kind. I. If the mind is in such a state as to pre- vent this freedom of imagination, the emo- tion, whether of sublimity or beauty, is un- perceived. In so far as the beauties of art or nature affect the external senses, their effect is the same upon every man who is in possession of these senses. But to a man in pain or in grief, whose mind, by these means, is attentive only to one object or consideration^ the same scene, or the Same form, will produce no feeling of ad- miration, which, at other times, when his