 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 430 trang
...little more than that he has more pleasure in seeing a swan than a dove, either from the stateliness of its motions, or its being a more rare bird ; and...who gives the preference to the dove, does it from some association of ideas of innocence that he always annexes to the dove ; but, if he pretends to... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 trang
...beautiful form ; for we have no criterion of form by which to determine our judgment. He who says a swan is more beautiful than a dove, means little more than that he has more pleasure in seeing a swan than a dove, either from the stateliness of its motions, or its being a more... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 trang
...beautiful form ; for we have no criterion of form by which to determine our judgment. He who says a swan is more beautiful than a dove, means little more than that he has more pleasure in seeing a swan than a dove, either from the stateliness of its motions, or its being a more... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 trang
...little more than that ho has more pleasure in seeing a swan than a dove, either from the stateliness of its motions, or its being a more rare bird ; and...who gives the preference to the dove, does it from some association of ideas of innocence which he always annexes to the dove ; but if he pretends to... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 332 trang
...beautiful form ; for we have no criterion of form by which to determine our judgment. He who says a swan is more beautiful than a dove, means little more than that he has more pleasure in seeing a swan than a dove, either from the stateliness of its motions, or its being a more... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 trang
...beautiful form, for we have no criterion of form by which to determine our judgment. He who says a swan is more beautiful than a dove, means little more than that he has more pleasure in seeing a swan than a dove, either from the stateliness of its motions or its being a more... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 trang
...beautiful form, for we have no criterion of form by which to determine our judgment. He who says a swan is more beautiful than a dove, means little more than that he has more pleasure in seeing a swan than a dove, either from the stateliness of its motions or its being a more... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 trang
...beautiful form, for we have no criterion of form by which to determine our judgment. He who says a swan is more beautiful than a dove, means little more than that he has more pleasure in seeing a swan than a dove, either from the stateliness of its motions or its being a more... | |
 | Francisco Mirabent - 1927 - 280 trang
...beauty is the medium or centre of all various forms». (2) The Idler, núm. 82: «...He who says a swan is more beautiful than a dove, means little more than that he has more pleasure in seeiug a swan than a dove... But if he pretends to defend the preference he gives to one... | |
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That we prefer one to the other, and with very good reason, will be readily granted ; but it does not follow from thence that we think it a more beautiful form ; for we have no criterion of form by which to determine our judgment. 
