Elements of criticism / By Henry Home, Lord Kames.

  • Henry Home, Lord Kames
Date:
1839
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Elements of criticism / By Henry Home, Lord Kames. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    500/510 page 478
    phorsmuch strained, 356. Metre, 280. Mile, the computed miles are longer in a barren than in a populous country, 71. Milton, his style much inverted, 301 ; the defect of his versification is the want of coincidence betwixt the pauses of the sense and sound, 303 ; the beauty of Milton’s comparisons, 316, 317. Moderation in our desires con- tributes the most to happiness, 89. Modern manners make a poor figure in an epic poem, 401. Modification de- fined, 467. Modulation defined, 271. Molossus, 308. Monosyllables (Eng- lish) arbitrary as to quantity, 281. Moral duties.—See Duties. Morality, a right and a wrong taste in morals, 450 ; aberrations from its true stan- dard, 453. Moral sense, 10 ; our pas- sions as well as actions are governed by it, 42. Moral tragedy, 396. Motion requires the constant exertion of an operating cause, 45 ; productive of feel- ings that resemble it, 74 ; its laws agree- able, 87 ; motion and force, Chap. V. what motions are the most agreeable, 108 ; regular motion, ib. ; accelerated motion, 108; upward motion, 109 ; undulating motion, ib.; motion of fluids, ib.; a body moved neither agreeable nor disagreeable, ib. ; the pleasure of motion differs from that of force, 109 ; grace of motion, 111 ; motions of the human body, ib. ; motion explained, 461. Mo- tive defined, 14 ; a selfish motive arising from a social principle, 15, note. Move- ment applied figuratively to melody, 265. Mount, artificial, 430. Mourning Bride censured, 208, 215, 225, 417, 421. Music, emotions raised by instrumental music have not an object, 21 ; music disposes the heart to various passions, 418 ; refined pleasures of music, 17 ; vocal distinguished from instrumental, 56 ; what subjects proper for vocal music, ib.; sentimental music, 56, note; sounds fit to accompany disagreeable passions cannot be musical, ib. ; wThat variety proper, 140 ; music betwixt the acts of a play, the advantages that may be drawn from it, 418 ; it refines our nature, 17, 18* Musical instruments, their different effects upon the mind, 98. Musical measure defined, 270. Narration, it animates a narrative to re- present things past as present, 37 ; nar- ration and description, Chap. XXI. it animates a narrative to make it dra- matic, 386, 387, 395. Nation defined, 470. Note, a high note and a low note in music, 96. Noun, 246. Novelty soon degenerates into familiarity, 48 ; novelty and the unexpected appearance of objects, Chap. VI. novelty, a plea- sant emotion, 112; distinguished from va- riety, ib. ; its different degrees, ib. ; fixes theattention, 133. Numberdefined,437; explained, 461. Numerus defined, 271. Object of a passion defined, 13 ; distin- guished into general and particular, ib. ; an agreeable object produces a plea- sant emotion, and a disagreeable object a painful emotion, 76, 77 ; attractive object, 77; repulsive object, ib. ; ob- jects of sight the most complex, 83; objects that are neither agreeable nor disagreeable, 94, 108, 109 ; natural objects readily form themselves into groups, 145 ; an object terminating an opening in a wood appears doubly dis- tant, 427 ; object defined, 456 ; objects of external sense, in what place perceiv- ed, 456, 457 ; objects of internal sense, 457 ; all objects of sight are complex, 461, 467 ; objects, simple and complex, ib. Obstacles to gratification inflame a passion, 48. Old Bachelor censured, 356. Opera censured, 147. Opinion influenced by passion, 63, 331 ; in- fluenced by propensity, 68 ; influenced by affection, ib. ; why differing from me in opinion is disagreeable, 451 ; opinion defined, 466. Oration of Cicero (Pro Archia Poeta) censured, 262. Orchard, 430. Order, 3, 464 ; plea- sure we have in order, 86, 4 ; necessary in all compositions, 5 ; sense of order has an influence upon our passions, 27 ; order and proportion contribute to grandeur, 90 ; when a list of many par- ticulars is brought into a period, in what order should they be placed ? 259; order in stating facts, 411. Organ of sense, i. Organic pleasure, i. ii. Orlando Furioso censured, 412. Ornament ought to be suited to the subject, 48 ; redundant ornaments ought to be avoided, 374 ; ornaments distinguished into what are merely such, and what have relation to use, 441; allegorical or emblematic ornaments, 446. Ossian excels in drawing characters, 381. Othello cen- sured, 393. Ovid censured, 140. Paeon, 309. Pain, cessation of pain ex- tremely pleasant, 20 ; pain, voluntary and involuntary, 44 ; different effects of pain upon the temper, 44 ; social pain less severe than selfish, ib.; pain of a train of perceptions in certain circum- stances, 137 ; pain lessens by custom, 181J; pain of want, 182, 449. Painful emotions and passions, 41. Painting, power of painting to move our passions, 37 ; its power to engage our belief, 38; what degree of variety is requisite, 139,
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3