The exercise of criticism always destroys for a time our sensibility to beauty by leading us to regard the work in relation to certain laws of constr…

- Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If the life of many a you…

- Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity …

- Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of na…

- Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet