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... The Naval Chronicle - Page 468edited by - 1799Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...danger, and they are the most powerful of all the passions. SECT. VII. — OF THE SUBLIME. 'WHATEVEE is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or i is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner ' analogous to terror, is a source... | |
| George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...mistake to make fear a cause of the sublime, rather than a possible effect. "Whatever," says Burke, "is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...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... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...of Burke's account of qualities, may esteem some of his hypotheses incomplete. ' Whatever (says he) is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the... | |
| Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1805 - 512 pages
...philosophy, so far as relates to the sublime ; which is first stated to proceed/rote whatever is fated in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger...that is to say, Whatever is in any sort terrible, or conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror*. But, nevertheless,... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...on pain and danger, and they are the most powerful of all the passions. SECT. VII. OF THE SUBLIME. WHATEVER is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas...and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort tertible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terrpur, is... | |
| Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 502 pages
...which is first stated to proceedjrom bjime ac(j whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the Pathetic. ideas of pain and danger ; that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or conversant abvut terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror *. But, nevertheless,... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 362 pages
...turn chiefly on pain and danger, and they are the most powerful of all the passions. OF THE SUBLIME. WHATEVER is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, er is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terrour, is a source... | |
| Scotland - 1857 - 878 pages
...little suited to become the groundwork of a noble philosophy : — " Whatever ia fitted," says Burke, "in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger—...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or ia conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the... | |
| 206 pages
...untinctured by awe, terror, or any feeling allied thereto ; and we shall call that sublime which " Is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or_ is conversant about terrible objects, or which operates in a manner analogous to terror, the Sublime... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1823 - 446 pages
...on pain and danger, and they are the most powerful of all the passions. SECTION VII. OF THE SUBLIME. WHATEVER is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas...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... | |
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