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The principles of beauty (1857)

Symonds, John Addington, 1807-1871, Symonds, John Addington, 1807-1871 (association) · London : Bell and Daldy · leaf 18

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is views. Those who admit the truth of his theory—that beau-tiful visible proportions bear a numerical expressionanalogous to that of the ratios which govern music— PREFACE. xiii will, I trust, find some satisfaction in my attempt toexplain upon physiological principles the pleasure de-rived from… … INTRODUCTION. word Beauty has two meanings, beingused in a manner analogous to that in O which the word Heat is employed. Foras the latter is applied both to the feeling of heat, andalso to the property in outward bodies which causesthe feeling, so Beauty expresses both the feeling in themind and…

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