“Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes.” IfsHeartSeemsBeautifulTreeFieldsCapableCalmCloudsDelightStealingGrassSunsetAutumnSensationsAssociationBellsBosomsTrunksCrimsonWaveringChimesEmbellishment Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature
“We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil.” IfsMightEvilWasteRemedyEmployedImpatience Author:Robert Aris Willmott
“Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of science preserves monsters in glasses. They belong to the study of the mind's morbid anatomy, and ought to be accurately labelled. Voltaire will still be a wit, notwithstanding he is a scoffer; and we may admire the brilliant spots and eyes of the viper, if we acknowledge its venom and call it a reptile.” IfsMenMindMayStillsBookEyePrinciplesStudyHe ManOughtGlassesBrilliantWitMonstersAdmireSpotsPreservesAcknowledgeScholarShelvesAnatomyMorbidDiseasedVenomReptilesVipersScoffers Author:Robert Aris Willmott
“One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an author. In Livy, it will be the manner of telling the story; in Sallust, personal identification with the character; in Tacitus, the analysis of the deed into its motive. If the same test be applied to painters, it will find the prominent faculty of Correggio to be manifested in harmony of effect; of Poussin, in the sentiment of his landscapes; and of Raffaelle, in the general comprehension of his subject.” IfsCharacterStoriesInterestingQualitySubjectsEffectsCriticismTestsHarmonyDeedsPainterLandscapeEaseFeaturesAnalysisMotiveFacultySentimentsComprehensionIdentificationProminent Author:Robert Aris Willmott