 | 1843 - 832 pages
...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 pages
...been said about it, it yet remains to be told. Nor are we satisfied with his definition of taste — " Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest...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 pages
...from any given 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...pleasure from any other sources, has false or bad taste." — Pp. 25-26. Lastly, Ideas of Relation. — This term is used rather as one of convenience than as... | |
 | 1847 - 810 pages
...any given 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...he who receives pleasure from any other sources has fake or bad taste. "And it is thus that the term 'taste' is to be distinguished from that of judgment,... | |
 | 1847 - 574 pages
...'object, >i» timan of taste. l! '"' "-«! *"li " This, then, is the real meaning of this disputed word. Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest...perfection. He who receives little pleasure from these scto^ces^ wants taste; he who receives pleasure from any other sources, has' false or bad taste."—... | |
 | 1900 - 676 pages
...i. part i. sec. i. chap, vi., we read : — " This, then, is the real meaning of this disputed word. Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest...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 pages
...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 - 340 pages
...matter of taste — subject to no rules — " " What says our oracle in ' Modern Painters ?' — ' Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest...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 pages
...taste. , § 2. Definition This, then, is the real meaning of this disputed word. Perfect " taste." taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible...pleasure from any other sources, has false or bad taste. § 3. Distinc- And it is thus that the term "taste" is to be distinguished from taste and* that of... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1857 - 500 pages
...§ 4. How far beauty may become intellectual. This, then, is the real meaning of this disputed word. Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest...pleasure from any other sources, has false or bad taste. And it is thus that the term " taste" is to be distinguished from that of "judgment," with which it... | |
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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. 
