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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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The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volume 37

British essayists - 1819 - 370 pages
...of mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves ; or, in other words, the taste iŁ 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: With Notes, and a General Index. The Eight Volumes Comprised ...

Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...sense and taste o mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves; or, in other words, of an old Greek or Music ii no« designed to please only chromatic ears, bu all that are capable of distinguishing harsh...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 356 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, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 5-6

British essayists - 1823 - 884 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 ta&te. Music is not designed to please only chromatic ears, but all that are capable of distinguishing...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 1

Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 310 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 Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pages
...of mankind, and not from the principles of these arts themselves ; or, In other words, that the Uste 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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Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste

Archibald Alison - Aesthetics - 1830 - 430 pages
...remembered, " That music, archiJ " tecture, and painting, as well as poetry and oratory are to deduce! " their laws and rules from the general sense and taste...most effectual method to check the empiricism, either * Mr. Addison. of art or of science, is to multiply, as far as possible, the number of those who can...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 20

1850 - 736 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, hut all that are capable of distinguishing harsh...
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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those ai ts themselves; or, in other words, and blemishes that are apt to rise among the charms which nature Music is not designed to please only chromatic ears, but all that is capable of distinguishing harsh...
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The Spectator, no. 1-314

Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 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 is capable of distinguishing harsh...
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