The science of taste: being a treatise on its principles (1879)
G. L · London, E. Stanford · leaf 105
DECOEATION AND HOUSEHOLD FUKNITURE. 87 It is all very we'll to bedeck a barrenness of invention in the captivating garb of pretended symbolism, and it is flattering, no doubt, to be told that in any particular group or figure there is a dash of allegory which is imperceptible only to the… … AN ORNAMENT IN THE MIDTAND HOTEL. the tail of a dolphin. In the most imaginative period of Mediaeval Art the best designers abstained from deline- ating phenomena lying without the bounds of proba- bility ; and there is no reason why we should not accept this as our own guiding principle, even in…
Aesthetics
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