 Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2501857Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...sort terfible, of is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terrour, is a source of the sublime ; that is, it is productive...because I am satisfied the ideas of pain are much more power* ful than those which enter on the part of pleasure. Without all doubt, the torments which we... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...sort tertible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terrpur, is a source of the sublime : that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the v mind is capable of feeling. I say the strongest emotion, because I am satisfied the ideas of pain... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger; that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, i» a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive C 2 of the strongest emotion which the mind... | |
 | 1833 - 508 pages
...sort, to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in...analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime." So extravagant, and so contradictory of its common experience, does this doctrine, when first enunciated,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...sublime, (which would be far from strictly true,) but that " whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in...analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime," he is led into a great many extravagances and much fanciful reasoning for the support of this hypothesis.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...sublime, (which %vould be far from strictly true,) but that " whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in...analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime," he is led into a great many extravagances and much fanciful reasoning for the support «it tin* hypothesis.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...suhliinf ; that is, it is productivo of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of tilling. Y arc much more powerful than those which enter on the part of pleasure. Without all doubt, the torments... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...sort tervible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates ma manner analogous to terrour, de — a job. —I speak, Sir, of the board of trade and plantations. This board is a sor unnd is capable of feelinff I sav the strongest emotion, because I SECTION VI. OF THE PASSIONS WHICH... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...sublime, (which would be far from strictly true,) but that " whatever is in any sort terrible, or is ' and he expresses himself (if I understand him rightly)...in favour of the coercive authority of such instruc he * is led into a great many extravagances and much fanciful reasoning for the support of this hypothesis.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1837 - 534 pages
...terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is the source of the sublime ; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling/1) performance, we shall subjoin it as a note. Thus with regard to his... | |
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