What is that quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator. Fairholt. See Emotion, Passion, Sentiment called?

feeling — That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator. Fairholt. See Emotion, Passion, Sentiment. (Webster's 1913.)

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