Pre-Raphaelites, aim of, i. 425; unwise in choice of subject, iv. 18; studies of, iii. 58, 71 (note); rank of, in art, iii. 141, iv. 57; mystery of, iv. 61, iii. 29, 127-129; apparent variance between Turner and, iii. 129; love of flowers, v. [91]; flower and leaf-painting of, i. 397, v. [35].
Pride, cause of mistakes, iv. 50; destructive of ideal character, ii. 122; in idleness, of mediæval knights, iii. 192; in Venetian landscape, v. [218].
Proportion, apparent and constructive, ii. 57-63; of curvature, ii. 60, iv. 266, 267; how differing from symmetry, ii. 73; of architecture, ii. 59; Burke’s error, ii. 60-62.
Prosperity, evil consequences of long-continued, ii. 4-5.
Psalm 19th, meaning of, v. [147]-149.
Purchase, wise, the root of all benevolence, v. [328] (note).
Puritans and Romanists, iii. 252.
Purity, the expression of divine energy, ii. 75; type of sinlessness, ii. 78; how connected with ideas of life, ii. 79; of color, ii. 79; conquest of, over pollution, typified in Apollo’s contest, v. [323]; of flesh painting, on what dependent, ii. 124; Venetian painting of the nude, v. [227]. See Sensuality.
Python, the corrupter, v. [323].
Rays, no perception of, by old masters, i. 213; how far to be represented, i. 213.