 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1857 - 624 pages
...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...powerful than those which enter on the part of pleasure." We can not conceive of any thing more degrading to art and nature than this low doctrine of pain and... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 804 pages
...sort to e*cite the ideas of pain and danger — that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates...powerful than those which enter on the part of pleasure." • We cannot conceive of anything more degrading to art and nature than this low doctrine of pain... | |
 | England - 1857 - 820 pages
...terrible objecte, or operates in в manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime — that ia, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the...satisfied the ideas of pain are much more powerful thnn those which enter on the part of pleasure." We cannot conceive of anything more degrading to art... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...sain ahout terrihle ohjects, or operates in a manner analogous to terrour, is a source of the HuUim, : honour, spirit, and eloquence have estimation in the world,) I may capahle of feeling. I say the strongest emotion, hecause 1 am satisfied the ideas of pain arc much... | |
 | 1863 - 568 pages
...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...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
...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...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
...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 in part a truth, but at the same time the limitation and falsity of his definition.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 572 pages
...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 1 source of the sublime ; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...the writer traces to the inspiration of terror. " Whatever," he says, "is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates...analogous to terror, is a .source of the sublime." The theory itself is unphilosophical and absurd; nor is the reasoning by which he attempts to support... | |
 | George Mather (Wesleyan minister.) - Aesthetics - 1872 - 106 pages
...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...that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling. I say the strongest emotion, because I am satisfied that the ideas... | |
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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... 
