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" Architecture certainly possesses many principles in common with Poetry and Painting. Among those which may be reckoned as the first, is, that of affecting the imagination by means of association of ideas. "
Observations on English Architecture, Military, Ecclesiastical, and Civil ... - Page 105
by James Dallaway - 1806 - 318 pages
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The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ; Late President of the Royal ...

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1809 - 442 pages
...by that general symmetry and proportion, by which the eye is delighted, as the ear is with musick, Architecture certainly possesses many principles in...common with Poetry, and Painting. Among those which maybe reckoned as the first, is, that of affecting the imagination by means of association of ideas....
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Papers Read at the Royal Institute of British Architects

1865 - 276 pages
...produced by that general symmetry and proportion, by which the eye is delighted, as the ear is with music, architecture certainly possesses many principles in...the imagination by means of association of ideas," — " hence it is that towers and battlements are so often selected by the painter and the poet to...
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The Discourses

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 pages
...produced by that general symmetry and proportion, by which the eye is delighted, as the ear is with music, Architecture certainly possesses many principles in...means of association of ideas. Thus, for instance, as wo have naturally a veneration for antiquity, whatever building brings to our remembrance ancient customs...
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The Connoisseur, Volume 16

1906 - 318 pages
...that architecture possesses many principles in common with painting and poetry. He adds : " Amongst those which may be reckoned as the first is that of...the imagination by means of association of ideas. There, for instance, we have naturally a veneration for antiquity: whatever building brings to our...
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The Students' Cabinet Library of Useful Tracts, Volume 5

1839 - 348 pages
...by that general symmetry and proportion, by which the eye is delighted, as the ear is witli music, architecture certainly possesses many principles in...association of ideas. Thus, for instance, as we have natnrally a veneration for antiquity, whatever building brings to our remembrance ancient customs and...
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