 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...passions. SECT. VII. — OF THE SUBLIME. 'WHATEVEE is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1764 - 458 pages
...cite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to fay, whatever is in any fort terrible, or is converfant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a fource of the Jublime; that is, it is productive of the itrongeft emotion which the mind is capable... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 328 pages
...Pafllons of Selfprefervation. ' Whatever is fitted,' fays he, ' to excite Ideas of Pain and Danger, or operates in a Manner analogous to Terror, is a Source of the Sublime ; that is, excites theftrongeft Emotion which the Mind is capable of feeling.' But furely this is falfe Philofophy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 332 pages
...Paffions of Selfprefervation. ' Whatever is fitted,' fays he, ' to excite Ideas of Pain and Danger, or operates in a Manner analogous to Terror, is a Source of the Sublime; that is, excites the ftrongcft Emotion which the Mind is capable of feeling.' .But furely this is falfe Philofophy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 328 pages
...Selfprefervation. ' Whatever is fitted,' fays he, * to excite Ideas of Pain and Danger, or 'operates in 4 Manner analogous to Terror, is a Source of the Sublime ; that is, excites the ftrongeft Emotion which the Mind is capable of feeling.' But furely this is falie PhUofophy... | |
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...than a possible effect. "Whatever," says Burke, "is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort...that is , it is productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling. I say the strongest emotion, because I am satisfied that the ideas... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to fay, whatever is in any fort terrible, or is converfant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a fource of the fublime ; that is, it is productive of the ftrongeft emotion which the mind is capable... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to fay, whatever is in any fort terrible, or is converfant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a fource of the fublime ; that is, it is productive of the ftrongeft emotion which the mind is capable... | |
 | James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - Europe - 1799 - 640 pages
...Master* of the Sublime ha* well observed, *' 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 objcfts, or opsrates in a manner analagous to terror, is a source of The Sublime ; that is, it is productive... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...of his hypotheses incomplete. ' Whatever (says he) is fitted 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, is a source of the... | |
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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... 
