Price, Uvedale; Price, Uvedale [Oth.]: An Essay On The Picturesque: As Compared With The Sublime And The Beautiful; And, On The Use Of Studying Pictures, For The Purpose Of Improving Real Landscape (Band 1) (London, 1796)

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careffes, by gentle preflure; thefe are the
endearinents we make ufe of (where fex is
totally out of the queftion) to beautiful
children, to beautiful animals, and even to
things inanimate ; and where the ftze and
charadter (as in trees, buildings, &c.) ex-
clude any fuch relation, ftill fomething of
the fame difference of fenfation between
them, and rugged objedts, appears to fub-
ftft; that fenfation however is diminiftied
as the ftze of any beautiful objedt is en-
creafed; and as it approaches towards gran-
deur and magnificence, it recedes from
lovelinefs,

As the eye borrows many of its fenfa^-
tions from the touch, fo that again feems
to borrow others from the fight. Soft,
frefh, and beautiful colours, though “ not
fenftble to feeling as to fight,” give us an
inclination to try their effe£t on the touch;
whereas, if the colour be not beautiful,
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