Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1796. Excerpt: ... DIVISION THE SECOND. PRINCIPLES OF THE RURAL ART. SECTION THE FIRST. ' General Principles. ARTS, merely imitative, have but one principle to work by, the nature, or actual state, of the thing to be imitated. In works of design and invention, another, principle takes the lead, which is taste. And in every work, in which' mental gratification is. not the only object, a third principle arises, utility, or the concurrent purpose for which the production is intended. The Rural Art is subject to these three principles: to nature, as being an imitative art; to utility, as being productive of objects, which are useful, as well as ornamental; and to taste, in the choice of fit objects to be imitated, and of fit purR 3 poses poses to be pursued; as also in the composition of the several objects and ends proposed, so as to produce the degree of gratification and use, best suited to the place, and to the purpose for which it is about to be ornamented: thus, a Hunting Bo and a Summer Villa,-r-an Ornamented Cottage and a Mansion, require a different style of ornament, a disferent choice of objects, a disferent taste. Nor can taste be consined to nature and utility,--the place and the purpofe, alone; the object of the Polite Arts is the gratisication of the human mind, and the state of refinement, of the mind itself, must be considered. Men's notions vary, not only in disferent ages, but individually in the fame age: what would have gratisied mankind, a century ago, in this country will ndt pleafe them now; while the Country Squire and the Fine Gentleman of the present day require a disferent kind of gratisication f nevertheless, under these various circumstances, every thing may be natural, and every thing adapted to the place; the degree of refinement constituting the...
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