 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...and danger, and they are the most powerful of all the passions. SECT. VII. OF THE SDBLIME. WHATEVER is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terfible, of is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terrour, 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 - 1806 - 522 pages
...any sort to excite the ideas of pain 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 a source of the sublime : that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 362 pages
...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 of pain,...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
...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 of pain...that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. I say the strongest emotion, because I am satisfied the ideas... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 510 pages
...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 of pain...terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terrour, is a source of the sublime ; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...danger, and they are the most powerful of all the passions. SECT. VII. — OP THE SUBLIME. WHATEVER is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...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
...Terror," he remarks, " is the common stock of every thing that is sublime." Again, he says, " Whatever is fitted, in any sort, to excite the ideas of pain...analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime." So extravagant, and so contradictory of its common experience, does this doctrine, when first enunciated,... | |
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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... 
