The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Joshua Reynolds 'Discourse'. CUL-DAR91.10. Edited by John van Wyhe. (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR91 contains early notes on guns & shooting. Darwin's draft of recollections of Henslow, 1861. Notes on the moral sense. Wallace pension. 'a sketch of the principal events in my life' & list of Darwin's works. Loose notes found with CUL-DAR119 'Books to be read'.

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Reynolds X discourse very curious as showing "the perfection of this science of abstract form" is the source of part of the highest enjoyment in mutilated statues

[Reynolds, Joshua. 1778. Seven discourses delivered in the Royal Academy by the president. London. [? ed.] "But as a stronger instance that this excellence alone inspires sentiment what artist ever looked at the Torso without feeling a warmth of enthusiasm as from the highest efforts of poetry? From whence does this proceed What is there in this fragment that produces this effect but the perfection of this science of abstract form?"]

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)