Reverends Père Castel and the Abbé Poncell have constructed, on the
supposed connection of flavours, perfumes, and colours, the following
amusing scales:—
Ut blue sharp.
Ut dièze sea-green
Re bright green sickly, insipid.
Re dièze olive
Mi yellow sweet.
Fa deep yellow bitter.
Fa dièze orange
Sol red bitter-sweet.
Sol dièze crimson
La violet harsh.
La dièze violet-blue
Si iris blue piquant.
It is true that a blind man, noted in ocular science, likened the blast
of a trumpet to scarlet, and Shakspeare speaks of the sweet south wind,
but for the greater part of the above comparisons there is a deficiency
of authorities.
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