An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste (Classic Reprint)

In objects of vision, however, this in?uence (if organic sensation is much more pievalent m the imitation than the reality. For painting be1ng no ways connected with utility, but 1n tended merely to please, mental habits, preju 'dices, and associations have much less controul 'over it than over the objects which it1epre sents. In building and ga1dening, and still more in dress and fu1n1ture, the charms of neatness, propriety, richness, Splendo'r, Ste. Often reconcile us to those harsh and disce1d ant Oppositions of colour, which, if imitated by painting, in all their native cru'dity, and without beihg softened and melted together by tender gradations of shadow, become glaringly offensive to every eye, and quite intole1able to those accustomed to the art. In thereality, also, much will dependhp'on the kind and degree of light to which objects are exposed; whence we can bear, and even require, much' more brilliance and opposition of colour in the 1nsides than on the outsides of buildings; and more in articles, that are to be seen by candle light, than ih those which are to be exposed to day-light: for candle-light, moon-light, and twilight melt every thing into one mild hue.

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