 | Edmund Burke - 1856 - 238 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 that the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 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,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 pages
...little suited to become the ground-work of a noble philosophy : " Whatever is fitted," says Burke, " in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger...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... | |
 | 1857 - 804 pages
...the groundwork of a noble philosophy : — " Whatever is fitted," says Burke, "in any sort to e*cite the ideas of pain and danger — that is to say, whatever...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... | |
 | 1857 - 820 pages
...little suited to become the groundwork of a noble philosophy : — " Whatever is fitted," says Burke, "in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger...any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objecte, or operates in в manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime — that ia, it is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 pages
...jxrin and danger, and they are the most powerful of all the pasSECTION vn. OF THE SUBLIME. WHITBVEB, small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselve ia to say whatever is in any sort terrihle, or is conver sain ahout terrihle ohjects, or operates in... | |
 | 1863 - 568 pages
...vastness, magnitude, obscurity, infinity ; as, doubtless, they are. When, however, he says that " whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime," one recognizes in part a truth, but at the same time the limitation and falsity of his definition.... | |
 | 1863 - 744 pages
...vustness, magnitude, obscurity, infinity; as, doubtless, they are. When, however, lie says that "whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime." one recognises in part a truth, but at the stniie time the limitation and falsity of his definition.... | |
 | George Herbert - 1863 - 732 pages
...they are. When, however, ho says that " whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of ¡mm and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible -objecte, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime," one recognises... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 572 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...or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a 1 source of the sublime ; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable... | |
| |
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... 
