| Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 448 sider
...without the other. According to the idea I have formed of it, intricacy in landscape might be defined, that disposition of objects, which, by a partial and...uncertain concealment, excites and nourishes curiosity*. Variety can hardly require a definition, though from the practice of many layers-out of ground, one... | |
| 1844 - 836 sider
...variety, is so blended with it, that one can scarcely exist without the other. It is defined by Price to be " that disposition of objects which, by a partial...uncertain concealment, excites and nourishes curiosity." 7th. Simplicity; or that disposition of objects which, without exposing all of them equally to view... | |
| 1856 - 594 sider
...intricacy, qualities that are almost inseparable from one another. Intricacy in landscape may be defined " that disposition of objects which, by a partial and...uncertain concealment, excites and nourishes curiosity." Upon the whole, it appears that, as intricacy in the disposition, and variety in the forms, the tints,... | |
| 1856 - 626 sider
...intricacy, qualities that are almost inseparable from one another. Intricacy in landscape may be denned " that disposition of objects which, by a partial and...uncertain concealment, excites and nourishes curiosity," Upon the whole, it appears that, as intricacy in the disposition, and variety in the forms, the tints,... | |
| Henry Vincent Hubbard, Theodora Kimball Hubbard - 1917 - 948 sider
...advantage from roughness and decay, the effect of time and age. " VI. Intricacy : Which has been defined to be that disposition of objects, which, by a partial...that disposition of objects which, without exposing them equally to view at once, may lead the eye to each by an easy gradation, without flutter, confusion,... | |
| Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1980 - 176 sider
...without the other. According to the idea I have formed of it, intricacy in landscape might 59 be defined, that disposition of objects, which, by a partial and...uncertain concealment, excites and nourishes curiosity. Variety can hardly require a definition, though from the practice of many layers-out of ground, one... | |
| Susanne Fusso - 1993 - 224 sider
...antithetical to Capability Brown's smooth and regular curves: "Intricacy in landscape might be defined as that disposition of objects which, by a partial and...uncertain concealment, excites and nourishes curiosity" (1: 22). The effect of intricacy is produced by allowing the naturally complicated outlines and shapes... | |
| Stephanie Ross - 2001 - 304 sider
...us the passion of curiosity. In fact, Price defined intricacy in terms of this passion, calling it "that disposition of objects which, by a partial and...uncertain concealment, excites and nourishes curiosity" (18). Borrowing from Hogarth, Price declared that the beauty of intricacy was "that it leads the eye... | |
| Helen Groth - 2003 - 266 sider
...Picturesque: According ro the idea I have formed of it, intricacy in landscape might be defined lasI, thnt disposition of objects, which, by a partial and uncertain concealment, excites and nourishes curiosity. . . . Many persons, who take little concern in the intricacy of oaks, beeches, and thorns, may feel... | |
| Marjorie Garson, Associate Professor of English Erindale College Marjorie Garson - 2007 - 497 sider
...the eye of the entranced visitor who moves through it. The apparently natural but actually deliberate 'disposition of objects which, by a partial and uncertain concealment, excites and nourishes curiosity' is given an emphatically erotic charge. Like the landscapes Price approves, Flora's glen 'invite [s]... | |
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