...mean hy the word Taste no more than thai Faculty or those faculties of the mind, which •re afflicted with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts. This is, I think, the most general idea of that word, and what is the least connected with any particular theory. And my...

...Sublime and Beautiful," Edmund Burke says — •" By the word taste 1 mean no more than the faculty or faculties of the mind which are affected with, or...the works of imagination and the elegant arts." This interpretation affords but little help, it must be confessed, to a solution of the question — What...

...writes, " I mean no more than that faculty, or those faculties of the mind, which are affected by, or which form, a judgment of the Works of Imagination and the elegant Arts" With HOBACE, good sense, or, as some have rendered it, a refined judgment, is all in all ; while, according...

...to cut off all pretence for cavilling, I mean by the word taste, no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or...imagination and the elegant arts. This is, I think, the most general idea of that word, and what is the least connected with any particular theory. And my...

...enlightened by reason." Burke's statement is, "I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind which are affected with, or...of the works of imagination and the elegant arts." While the writers just quoted, with careful discrimination point out the two-fold character of taste...

...natural to men." Burke's statement is, " I mean by the word taste no more than the faculty or those faculties of the mind which are affected with, or...of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts." Ruskin, after arguing that taste is a power of the mind, distinct from judgment which decides as to...

...power of perceiving and the power ot feeling. So Burke: " That faculty, or those faculties of the uiind which are affected with, or which form a judgment...of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts." Alison: "That faculty of the mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in...

...the union of all faculties and feelings. or those faculties of the mind which are affected wit h or form a judgment of the works of imagination and the elegant arts." Ruskin magnifies the element of sensibility in Taste. These various views, we will notice, differ mainly...

...perceptive power, if pleasure be wanting. Hence Burke's definition of taste — 'That faculty or those faculties of the mind which are affected with, or...of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts'; and Alison's—'That faculty of the mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime...

...character, which almost invariably turned out to be false, I paid no particular attention to them. 22. Those faculties of the mind which are affected with, or...of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts. 23. They are not disconnected with, nor independent of, the appropriate objects of observation and...