| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...produces a sort of swelling and triumph, that is extremelygrateful to the human mind ; and this swelling is never more perceived, nor operates with more force, than when without danger we are conversant with terrible objects ; the mind always claiming to itself some part of the dignity and... | |
| Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1764 - 458 pages
...fort of fwelling and triumph that is extremdy grateful to the human G 2 mind; jnind; and this fwclling is never more perceived, nor operates with more force, than when without danger we are con-^ verfant with terrible objects, the mind always claiming to itfelf fome part of the dignity and... | |
| Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1767 - 368 pages
...opinion^ produces a fort of fwelling and triumph that is extremely grateful to the human G 2 mind; mind ; and this fwelling is never more perceived,...inward greatnefs, that always fills the reader of fuch paffages in poets and orators as are fublime ; it is what every man muft have felt in himfelf upon... | |
| Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1776 - 368 pages
...of fwelling and triumph, that is extremely grateful to the human mind ; G 2 and and this fvyelling is never ,more perceived, nor operates with more force,...the dignity and importance of the things which it con-r templates. Hence proceeds what Longinus has obferved of that glorying and fenfe of inward greatnefs,... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...in his own opinion, produces a fort of fwelling and triumph, that is extremely grateful to the hum.m mind ; and this fwelling is never more perceived,...inward greatnefs, that always fills the reader of fuch pafTages in poets and orators as are fublime ; it is what every man muft have felt in himfelf upon... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...opinion, produces a fort of fwelling and triumph, that is extremely grateful to the human mind ; and this is never more perceived, nor operates with more force,...things which it contemplates. Hence proceeds what JLonginus has obferved of that glorying and fenfe of inward greatnefs, that always fills the reader... | |
| Freeman of Dublin - Ireland - 1800 - 674 pages
...hen without danger we are converfant with terrible obje<fts, the mind always claiming to itfelf fomc part of the dignity and importance of the things which it contemplates. Hence proseeds what Longinus has obferved of that glorying ing and fenfe of inward greamefs, that always... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 366 pages
...fomething excellent, we begin to take a complacency in fome fingular infirmities, follies, or defects of one kind or other. It is on this principle that...inward greatnefs, that always fills the reader of fuch paffages in poets and orators as arefublime; it is what every man muft have felt in himfelf upon fuch... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 366 pages
...; for flattery is no more than what raifes in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he L 3 has has not. Now, whatever, either on good or upon bad...inward greatnefs, that always fills the reader of fuch paffages in poets and orators as are fublime ; it is what every man muft have felt in himfelf upon... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...produces a sort of swelling and triumph, that is extremely grateful to the human mind ; and this swelling is never more perceived, nor operates with more force,...with terrible objects, the mind always claiming to itself some part of the dignity and importance of the things which it contemplates. Hence proceeds... | |
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