 Observe that part of a beautiful woman where she is perhaps the most beautiful, about the neck and breasts ; the smoothness ; the softness ; the easy and insensible swell ; the variety of the surface, which is never for the smallest space the same ; the...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 151by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1764 - 458 pages
...is never for the fmalleft fpace the fame; the deceitful maze, through which the unfteady eye Aides giddily, without knowing where to fix, or whither it is carried. Is not this a demonftration of that change of furface continual, and yet hardly percep? tible at any point which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1767 - 368 pages
...knowing where to fix, or whither it is carried. Is not this a demonftration of that change of furface continual, and yet hardly perceptible at any point, which forms one of the great conftituents of beauty ? It gives me no finall pleafure to find that I can ftrengthen : my theory in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...is never for the fmalleft fpace the.fame; the deceitful maze, through which the unfteady eye Hides giddily, without knowing where to fix, or whither it is carried. Is not this a demonftration of that change of furface, continual, and yet hardly perceptible at any point, which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...is never for the fmalleft fpace the fame ; the deceitful maze, through which the unfteady eye flides giddily, without knowing where to fix, or whither it is carried. Is not this a demonftration of that change of furface, continual, and yet hardly perceptible at any point, which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...to iix, or whither it is carried. Is not this a demonftradon of that change of furface, continual, yet hardly perceptible 'at any point, which forms one of the great conftituents of beauty ? It gives me no fmall pleaiure to find that I can ftrengthen my theory in this... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - Ireland - 1800 - 674 pages
...is never for the fmalleft fpace the fame ; the deceitful maze, through which the unfteady eye flides giddily, without knowing where to fix, or whither it is carried. Is not this a demonftration of that change of furface, continual, and yet hardly perceptible at any point, which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 366 pages
...is never for the fmalleft fpace the fame ; the deceitful maze* through which the unfteady eye ffides giddily, without knowing where to fix or whither it is carried. Is not this a demonftration of that change of furface, continual, and yet hardly perceptible at any point, which... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Aesthetics - 1810 - 420 pages
...fame undulation, or (to borrow an exprefllon from Mr. Burke) " that change of furface, " continual yet hardly perceptible at any " point, which forms one of the great con" ftituents of beauty." Inftead of thofe tufts, thickets, and groups, whofe playful outline and... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 420 pages
...fame undulation, or (to borrow. an expreflion from Mr. Burke) "that change of furface, " continual yet hardly perceptible at any " point, which forms one of the great con" ftituents of beauty." Inftead of thofe tufts, thickets, and groups, whofe playful outline and... | |
 | 1811 - 392 pages
...about the neck and bosom ; the smoothness, the softness, the ease and insensible swell; the variety of the surface, which is never for the smallest space...giddily without knowing where to fix or whither it ii carried." — Look on this picture, and saj — is it uot the picture of heallh • — If you think... | |
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