 | Zoltán Simon - American fiction - 2003 - 118 pages
...emphasized an important new element in his definition of the sublime, namely terror and fear. "Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, [.. .] is a source of the sublime, [.. .] the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling"... | |
 | Alexandra Wettlaufer - Visual perception in literature - 2003 - 316 pages
...pleasure in pain, for in contradistinction to beauty, which excites feelings of joy and delight, "whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is ''Longinus, "On the Sublime" in Classical Literary Criticism, ed. DA Russell and M. Winterbottom (Oxford:... | |
 | Martin Edward Thomas - History - 2004 - 350 pages
...pain', it is from the latter that we derive our sense of the sublime. As he described it: Whatever 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 operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the... | |
 | H. Peter Loewer - Gardening - 2004 - 280 pages
...vallies." Edmund Burke (1729—97) wrote in his 1756 Essay on the Suhlime and the Beautiful: "Whatever 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 operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the... | |
 | Andrew Smith - History - 2004 - 202 pages
...moment as it corresponds to a model of the sublime seemingly without transcendence. For Burke, 'Whatever 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 operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the... | |
 | William Pfaff - History - 2004 - 392 pages
...bomber. Another man speaks of the "sublime effect ... of destructive power," and adds, "Whatsoever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...danger, that is to say whatever is in any sort terrible, is a source of the sublime." But this is not an ideologically intoxicated terrorist speaking; it is... | |
 | Hermann Doetsch - Aesthetics - 2004 - 450 pages
...die weitgehend meiner Analyse entspricht. Wliatever isßtted in any sort to exäte the ideas ofpain, 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... | |
 | Harry Francis Mallgrave - Architecture - 2009 - 584 pages
...qualities in bodies, by which they cause love, or some passion similar to it," the sublime is "whatever 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 operates in a manner analogous to terror.""1' His definition... | |
 | Anette Naumann - 2005 - 642 pages
...Schrift A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin ofour Ideas ofthe Sublime and the Beautiful: Whatever 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 operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the... | |
 | Alain Parent - Art and geography - 2005 - 300 pages
...et morales avec la nature grandiose. Ce que Burke a pu écrire cadre bien avec cette image: Whatever 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 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... 
