 | Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 448 pages
...\vilh tum» and sweeps, and manoeuvring stakes, that they nev^r gain an idea of the first elements of composition. Such a mechanical system of operations...the name of an art. There are indeed certain words iu all languages that have a good and a bad sense ; such as simplicity and simple, art and (trtful,... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 444 pages
...occupied with turns and sweeps, and manoeuvring stakes, that they nevTT gain an idea of the first elements of composition. Such a mechanical system of operations little deserves the name of ail art. There are indeed certain words in all languages that have a good and a bad sense ; such as... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...ostentatiously'.71 'There are indeed certain words in all languages', writes Price in his conclusion, 'that have a good and a bad sense: such as simplicity...often express our contempt as our admiration.' It is by no means unusual that eighteenth-century theoreticians and practitioners of the picturesque should... | |
 | David Marshall - 2005 - 284 pages
...defect."80 "There are indeed certain words in all languages," writes Price in his conclusion to his Essays, "that have a good and a bad sense: such as simplicity and simple, art and artful, which as 34 often express our contempt as our admiration." Even Brown and Repton would have agreed with Price... | |
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With leaden eye that loves the ground ;' " and are so continually occupied with turns " and sweeps, and manoeuvring stakes, that " they never gain an idea of the first prin" ciples of composition. " Such a mechanical system of operations " little deserves... 