Chromatics: Or, the Analogy, Harmony, and Philosophy of ColoursBogue, 1845 - 263 pages |
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Chromatics; Or the Analogy, Harmony, and Philosophy of Colours George Field No preview available - 2010 |
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according Accordingly afford analogy ancient Greeks appear archeus artist beauty blue catoptric catoptron centre chemical chiaroscuro chro chromascope chromatic chromatic scale circle Citrine coincident coloured specula colourist colourless complementary complementary colour composition compound consonance CONSONANCES AND DISSONANCES contrast dark diagram diatessaron diatonic scale discords doctrine effects elements of light employed enharmonic equal equivalent Example expression figures forms glass Green harmony hues hydrogen images instrument lenses lensic prism light and colours light and shade lours manner melody ment metrochrome musician nature neutral neutralise object octave optical Orange painting perfect philosopher photogenic picture poet poetry powers of colours preceding experiments predominates primary triad principle prismatic produced proportions Purple reflected refraction regard relations of colours remarkable Russet scale sciogenic secondary colours sensible spectra spectrum speculum subordination tertiary colours three primary colours tints tion Titian tone transparent triangle variety various viewed vision whence wherein yellow
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Page 132 - These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Page 125 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still through all the song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft, responsive voice was heard at every close, And Hope, enchanted, smiled, and waved her golden hair.
Page 143 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 127 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 143 - What hands are here ? ha ! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand ? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Page 46 - It is not for that reason alone, but for another of much greater consequence ; for the sake of the general harmony and effect of the picture. The figure of Ariadne is separated from the great group, and is dressed in blue, which, added to the colour of the sea, makes that quantity of cold colour which Titian thought necessary for the support and brilliancy of the great group ; which group is composed, with very little exception, entirely of mellow colours. But as the picture in this case would be...
Page 117 - ... those other recommendations are wanting, or exist in a weaker degree, that the true force of the attraction, exercised by the pure poetry with which they are so often combined, can be fairly appreciated: where, without much incident or many characters, and with little wit, wisdom, or arrangement, a number of bright pictures are presented to the imagination, and a fine feeling expressed of those mysterious relations by which visible external things are assimilated with inward thoughts and emotions,...
Page 125 - Who see'st appall'd th' unreal scene, While Fancy lifts the veil between : Ah Fear ! Ah frantic Fear ! I see, I see thee near. I know thy hurried step, thy haggard eye ! Like thee I start, like thee disorder'd fly...
Page 145 - And he, the man whom Nature self had made To mock herself, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter under mimic shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah! is dead of late: With whom all joy and jolly merriment Is also deaded, and in dolour drent.
Page 63 - Th' according music of a well-mix'd state. Such is the world's great harmony, that springs From order, union, full consent of things ; Where small and great, where weak and mighty, made To serve, not suffer, strengthen, not invade ; More...