Table TalkBoD – Books on Demand, Feb 6, 2024 - 500 pages |
Contents
ON THE PLEASURE OF PAINTING | 1 |
ON THE PAST AND FUTURE | 25 |
ON GENIUS AND COMMON SENSE | 38 |
ON THE CHARACTER OF COBBETT | 65 |
ON PEOPLE WITH ONE IDEA | 78 |
ON THE IGNORANCE OF THE LEARNED | 93 |
ON THE INDIAN JUGGLERS | 103 |
ON LIVING TO ONES SELF | 121 |
ON A LANDSCAPE OF NICOLAS POUSSIN | 232 |
ON MILTONS SONNETS | 240 |
ON COFFEEHOUSE POLITICIANS | 261 |
ON THE ARISTOCRACY OF LETTERS | 284 |
ON CRITICISM | 297 |
ON GREAT AND LITTLE THINGS | 315 |
ON FAMILIAR STYLE | 338 |
ON EFFEMINACY OF CHARACTER | 346 |
ON THOUGHT AND ACTION | 136 |
ON WILL MAKING | 153 |
ON CERTAIN INCONSISTENCIES IN SIR JOSHUA | 165 |
ON PARADOX AND COMMONPLACE | 199 |
ON VULGARITY AND AFFECTATION | 214 |
WHY DISTANT OBJECTS PLEASE | 356 |
ON CORPORATE BODIES | 369 |
WHETHER ACTORS OUGHT TO SIT IN THE BOXES | 384 |
ON PATRONAGE AND PUFFING | 394 |
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abstract admiration Andrea Sacchi appears artist beauty better C. S. CALVERLEY Carlo Maratti character Cobbett colours common sense Correggio criticism delight Discourse Domenichino Edition effect effeminacy Elgin Marbles English Engravings ESSAY excellence expression face fancy favour favourite Fcap feeling genius GEORGE CRUIKSHANK give grandeur hand heart human idea Illustrations imagination indifferent instance interest Julius Cæsar laugh learned live look Lord Lord Byron manner means ment mind Molière nature never Nicolas Poussin notions object once opinion pain painter painting passion Paul Veronese person picture play pleasure poet portrait Post 8vo prejudice pretensions principle reason Rembrandt Sir Joshua sort speak spirit striking style talents talk taste things thou thought tion Titian truth turn vanity vols vulgar whole William Hazlitt wish words write