 | 1843 - 832 lehte
...with his definition of taste — " Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possihle pleasure from those material sources which are attractive...to our moral nature in its purity and perfection." This will not do ; for taste will take material sources, unattractive in themselves, and hy comhination,... | |
 | 1843 - 1380 lehte
...it yet remains to be told. Nor are we satisfied with his definition of taste — " Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure...to our moral nature in its purity and perfection." This will not do ; for taste will take material sources, unattractive in themselves, and by combination,... | |
 | 1847 - 584 lehte
...object, is a man of taste. " This, then, is the real meaning of this disputed word. Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure...and perfection. He who receives little pleasure from these sources, wants taste ; he who receives pleasure from any other sources, has false or bad taste."... | |
 | 1847 - 810 lehte
...object, is a man of taste. " This, then, is the real meaning of this disputed word. PeVfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure...and perfection. He who receives little pleasure from these sources, wants taste : he who receives pleasure from any other sources has fake or bad taste.... | |
 | 1900 - 676 lehte
...chap, vi., we read : — " This, then, is the real meaning of this disputed word. Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure...to our moral nature in its purity and perfection. Ho who receives little pleasure from these sources wants tasto ; he who receives pleasure from any... | |
 | 1900 - 614 lehte
...One uiust have either some taste or no taste. He who receives pleasure, though it be ever so little, from "those material sources which are attractive to our moral nature in its purity and perfection " has taste, though in a very small degree ; and as the pleasure increases so the taste advances towards... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1854 - 348 lehte
...— subject to no rules — " " What says our oracle in ' Modern Painters ?' — ' Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure...to our moral nature in its purity and perfection. Taste, properly so called, is the instinctive and instant preferring of one material object to another,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1857 - 502 lehte
...§ 2. Definition This, then, is the real meaning of this disputed word. Perfect " taste." taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure...and perfection. He who receives little pleasure from these sources, wants taste ; he who receives pleasure from any other sources, has false or bad taste.... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 496 lehte
...object, is a man of taste. This, then, is the real meaning of this disputed word. Perfect taste is tike faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure...and perfection. He who receives little pleasure from these sources, wants taste ; he who receives pleasure from any other sources, has false or bad taste.... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 lehte
...object, is a man of taste. This, then, is the real meaning of this disputed word. Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure...those material sources which are attractive to our innivil nature in its purity and perfection. He who receives littSFfficasurc from these sources, wants... | |
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Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to our moral nature in its purity and perfection. 
