 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1847 - 380 pages
...attributes of destruction. " Whatever," he says, " is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain or danger — that is to say, whatever is in any sort...conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a * Nothing can be more unsatisfactory than all definitions which have sought to limit the author's liberty... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...escaped some imminent degree of danger, SuflBciently indicate. Whatever excites this delight, whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, without their actual existence, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects,... | |
 | Ritter - Philosophy - 1853 - 680 pages
...SBerfebr mit ibm ju fucijen unb aíleé bíeé tvirb auf bie gefeQigen Neigungen 1). Ib. I, 7. Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is » source of the1 sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable... | |
 | Heinrich Ritter - Philosophy - 1853 - 702 pages
...vertraulichen 33erfebr mit ibm ju fueren unb afleo bied wirb auf bie gefeiltgen Neigungen 1) Ib. l, 7. Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whale vor ig in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner... | |
 | Peter Burke - Philosophy - 1854 - 340 pages
...of the qualities which constitute sublimity and beauty is exact. Of the sublime he says, " Whatever 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 472 pages
...whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, without their actual existence, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 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...strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling. 1 The second head to which the passions are referred, in relation to their final cause, is society.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1857 - 728 pages
...danger, and they are the most powerful of all the passions. SECT. VII. — OF THE SUBLIME. WIIATEVEB is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, wsatfiverjsjn^uy sort terrible, of is coaversant_about terrible, objects, or operates-iti a iimimiT... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 478 pages
...escaped some imminent degree of danger, sufficiently indicate. Whatever excites this delight, whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, without their actual existence, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects,... | |
 | Peter Burke - Philosophy - 1854 - 346 pages
...of the qualities which constitute sublimity and beauty is exact. Of the sublime he says, "Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and damger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or conversant about terrible objects, or... | |
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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... 
