 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...danger, and they are the most powerful of all the passions. SECT. VII. — OF THE SUBLIME. 'WHATEVEE is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...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... | |
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...mistake to make fear a cause of the sublime, rather than a possible effect. "Whatever," says Burke, "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... | |
 | James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - Europe - 1799 - 640 pages
...Falconer. of the reader ; for as our lamented Master* of the Sublime ha* well observed, *' 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 objcfts, or opsrates in a manner analagous to terror, is a source of The... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1805 - 512 pages
...philosophy, so far as relates to the sublime ; which is first stated to proceed/rote whatever is fated in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger...objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror*. But, nevertheless, as the author immediately adds, when danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable... | |
 | 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 - 508 pages
...<} whatever is Jitted in any sort to excite the Pathetic. ideas of pain and danger ; that is to nay, whatever is in any sort terrible, or conversant about...objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror *. But, nevertheless, as the author immediately adds, when danger or pain press too nearly, they are... | |
 | 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, as the author... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
