Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine ArtsScott, John Robert
Philosophy
Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts
Scott, John Robert
Aesthetics; Art; Art and society -- Greece; Art patronage -- Great Britain; Art patronage -- Greece; Arts, British; Arts, Greek
25. Thomas Baker's _The Fine Lady's Airs_ (1709).
26. Charles Macklin's _The Man of the World_ (1792).
27. Frances Reynolds' _An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of
Taste, and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, etc._ (1785).
28. John Evelyn's _An Apologie for the Royal Party_ (1659); and _A
Panegyric to Charles the Second_ (1661).
29. Daniel Defoe's _A Vindication of the Press_ (1718).
30. Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper's _Letters Concerning
Taste_, 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong's _Miscellanies_
(1770).
SIXTH YEAR (1951-1952)
31. Thomas Gray's _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard_ (1751);
and _The Eton College Manuscript_.
32. Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudéry's Preface to _Ibrahim_
(1674), etc.
33. Henry Gally's _A Critical Essay_ on Characteristic-Writings
(1725).
34. Thomas Tyers' A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson
(1785).
35. James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. _Critical
Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David
Malloch_ (1763).
36. Joseph Harris's _The City Bride_ (1696).
SEVENTH YEAR (1952-1953)
37. Thomas Morrison's _A Pindarick Ode on Painting_ (1767).
38. John Phillips' _A Satyr Against Hypocrites_ (1655).
39. Thomas Warton's _A History of English Poetry_.
40. Edward Bysshe's _The Art of English Poetry_ (1708).
41. Bernard Mandeville's "_A Letter to Dion_" (1732).
42. Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances.
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Transcriber's note:
Variations in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained
except in obvious cases of typographical error:
"... joined increased (conveniencies->) conveniences"
"... which nothing imperfect (eould->) would please,"
Footnotes interrupting paragraphs have been moved to the end of
the respective paragraphs.
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