This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... The Study of Beauty. HOUGH it is impossible to give an exact definition of Beauty, it is possible, and for my purpose to-day it seems desirable, to make a few statements of almost unquestionable truth respecting its nature. There is a kind of beauty perceived by the eye which has a close analogy to some of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... The Study of Beauty. HOUGH it is impossible to give an exact definition of Beauty, it is possible, and for my purpose to-day it seems desirable, to make a few statements of almost unquestionable truth respecting its nature. There is a kind of beauty perceived by the eye which has a close analogy to some of the simpler kinds of beauty perceived by the ear in music. Colours, seen singly, and certain colours seen together, give pleasure to our senses, as certain sounds and combinations of sounds do, partly by giving activity to part of our nervous system which needs activity for health. This is probably also the case with certain forms. But the pleasure felt in seeing colours and forms, and in hearing sounds, is hardly ever due only to this cause. The effect on our feelings and thoughts of even the simplest thing, and even the first time it is perceived, is probably made somewhat different from what it would otherwise be by recalling the effect, or part of the effect, of something more or less similar; and a second experience of the same thing is complicated by association with the effects of the first experience. Shakespeare's Northumberland tells us that "the tongue of the first bringer of unwelcome news sounds ever after as a sullen bell, remembered knolling a departing friend," and almost every thing we see, almost every sound we hear, in very early life is either a bringer of unwelcome or of welcome news to some part of our nature, or has a close connection with some bringer of such news; and thus almost everything gains the power of producing on us pleasant or unpleasant impressions, to some of which we give the names of beauty and ugliness. It is interesting to think of some of the innumerable ways in which associations between things and...
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