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THE LANDSCAPE ARTISTS OF ENGLAND

This Work

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

BY THEIR SINCERE ADMIRER,

THE AUTHOR.

SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.

PART III.

OF IDEAS OF BEAUTY.

SECTION I

OF THE THEORETIC FACULTY,

CHAPTER I.-Of the Rank and Relations of the Theoretic

Faculty.

§ 1. With what care the subject is to be approached..

§ 2. And of what importance considered....

§ 3. The doubtful force of the term "utility”.

§ 4. Its proper sense........

§ 5. How falsely applied in these times..

§ 6. The evil consequences of such interpretation. How connected with national power...

§ 7. How to be averted..

§ 8. Division of the pursuits of men into subservient and objective. § 9. Their relative dignities.. . . . .

§ 10. How reversed through erring notions of the contemplative and imaginative faculties....

§ 11. Object of the present section..

CHAPTER II.—Of the Theoretic Faculty as concerned with

Pleasures of Sense.

§ 1. Explanation of the term "theoretic"...

§ 2. Of the differences of rank in pleasures of sense. 3. Use of the terms Temperate and Intemperate..

§ 4. Right use of the term "intemperate".

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§ 5. Grounds of inferiority in the pleasures which are subjects of intemperance.....

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§ 6. Evidence of higher rank in pleasures of sight and hearing... 15 § 7. How the lower pleasures may be elevated in rank.

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§ 8. Ideas of beauty how essentially moral.. 9. How degraded by heartless reception.. § 10. How exalted by affection....

CHAPTER III.—Of Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Impressions of Sense.

§ 1. By what test is the health of the perceptive faculty to be determined?.......

§ 2. And in what sense may the terms Right and Wrong be attached to its conclusions ?....

§ 3. What power we have over impressions of sense.

4. Depends on acuteness of attention...

§ 5. Ultimate conclusions universal....

6. What duty is attached to this power over impressions of

sense.....

7. How rewarded....

§ 8. Especially with respect to ideas of beauty.

9. Errors induced by the power of habit..

10. The necessity of submission in early stages of judgment....

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§ 11. The large scope of matured judgment..

§ 12. How distinguishable from false taste.

13. The danger of a spirit of choice....

14. And criminality...

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15. How certain conclusions respecting beauty are by reason de

monstrable..

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§ 16. With what liabilities to error.

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§ 17. The term beauty" how limitable in the outset. Divided into typical and vital......

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CHAPTER IV.-Of False Opinions held concerning Beauty.

§ 1. Of the false opinion that truth is beauty, and vice versa..... § 2. Of the false opinion that beauty is usefulness. Compare Chap. xii. 5......

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Of the false opinion that beauty results from custom. Com-
pare Chap. vi. § 1..

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4. The twofold operation of custom. It deadens sensation, but confirms affection..

5. But never either creates or destroys the essence of beauty.. 32 6. Instances..

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Of the false opinion that beauty depends on the association of ideas...

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8. Association. Is, 1st, rational. It is of no efficiency as a cause of beauty.....

9. Association accidental. The extent of its influence.

10. The dignity of its function....

§ 11. How it is connected with impressions of beauty...

§ 12. And what caution it renders necessary in the examination of them....

CHAPTER V.—Of Typical Beauty :-First, of Infinity, or the
Type of Divine Incomprehensibility.

§ 1. Impossibility of adequately treating the subject...
§ 2. With what simplicity of feeling to be approached..
3. The child instinct respecting space.

4. Continued in after life...

§ 5. Whereto this instinct is traceable..

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§ 8. And connected analogies....

9. How the dignity of treatment is proportioned to the expres

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§ 12. Among the painters of landscape.

§ 13. Other modes in which the power of infinity is felt.....

14. The beauty of curvature...

§ 15. How constant in external nature..

§ 16. The beauty of gradation...

17. How found in nature..

§ 18. How necessary in Art.

§ 19. Infinity not rightly implied by vastness...

-CHAPTER VI.—Of Unity, or the Type of the Divine Compre

hensiveness.

§ 1. The general conception of divine Unity....

§ 2. The glory of all things is their Unity..

§ 3. The several kinds of unity. Subjectional. Original. Of

sequence, and of membership...

4 Unity of membership. How secured.

§ 5. Variety. Why required.....

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§ 6. Change, and its influence on beauty...

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§ 7. The love of change. How morbid and evil.........

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8. The conducing of variety towards unity of subjection..

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§ 9. And towards unity of sequence....

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§ 11. The value of apparent proportion in curvature...
12. How by nature obtained.....

§ 10. The nature of proportion. 1st, of apparent proportion.

§ 13. Apparent proportion in melodies of line.

§14. Error of Burke in this matter.....

§ 15. Constructive proportion. Its influence in plants.
§ 16. And animals.

§ 17. Summary..

CHAPTER VII.-Of Repose, or the Type of Divine Perma

nence.

§ 1. Universal feeling respecting the necessity of repose in art. Its

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