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" I have here offered, than that music, architecture, and painting, as well as poetry and oratory, are to deduce their laws and rules from the general sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves ; or, in other words,... "
Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste - Page ix
by Archibald Alison - 1812 - 434 pages
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 4

1786 - 694 pages
...taitc of mankind, ana not from the principles of thofe arts themfelves ; or in other words, the tafte is not to conform to the art, but the art to the tafte. Mufic is not defigned to pleafe only chromatic ears, but all that are capable of diftinguifliing...
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The Spectator. ...

1789 - 508 pages
...tafte of mankind, and not from the principles of thofe arts themfelves ; or in other words, the tafte is not to conform to the art, but the art to the tafte. Mufic is not defigned to pleafe only chromatic ears, but all that are capable of diftinguiming...
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves ; or in other words, the taste is not to conform to the art, but the art to the taste. Music is not designed to please only chromatic ears, but all that are capable of distinguishing harsh...
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The British Essayists, Volume 6

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves ; or, in other words, the taste is not to conform to the art, but the art to the taste. Music is not designed to please only chromatic ears, but all that are capable of distinguishing harsh...
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Philosophical Essays

Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1811 - 590 pages
...the general sense and taste of " mankind, and not from the principles of these arts themselves; or, " in other words, that the taste is not to conform to the art, but the "art to the taste." — Spectator, No. 29. CHAPTER SIXTH. 'H THE APPLICATION OF THE THEORY OF ASSOCIATION TO BEAUTY. FARTHER...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves; or, in other words, the taste is not to conform to the art, but the art to the taste. Music is not designed to please only chromatic ears, but all that are capable of distinguishing harsh...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves; or, in other words, the taste is not to conform to the art, but the art to the taste. Music is not designed to please only chromatic ears, but all that are capable of distinguishing harsh...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with sketches of the lives of the ...

Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves ; or in other words, the taste is not to conform to the art, but the art to the taste. Music is not designed to please only chromatic ears, but all that are capable of distinguishing harsh...
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Philosophical Essays

Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
...and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of these arts •' themselves ; or, in other words, the Taste is not to conform to •' the Art, but the Art to the Taste."— Spectator, No. 29. CHAPTER SIXTH. OF THE APPLICATION OF THE THEORY OF ASSOCIATION TO BEAUTY. FARTHER...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 46

England - 1839 - 870 pages
...general sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of the art itself ; or, in other words, the taste is not to conform to the art, but the art to the taste. Music is not designed to please only chromatic cars, but all that arc capable of distinguishing harsh...
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