 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 sidor
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1764 - 458 sidor
...cite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to fay, whatever is in any fort terrible, or is converfant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a fource of the Jublime; that is, it is productive of the itrongeft emotion which the mind is capable... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 328 sidor
...Pafllons of Selfprefervation. ' Whatever is fitted,' fays he, ' to excite Ideas of Pain and Danger, or operates in a Manner analogous to Terror, is a Source of the Sublime ; that is, excites theftrongeft Emotion which the Mind is capable of feeling.' But furely this is falfe Philofophy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 332 sidor
...Paffions of Selfprefervation. ' Whatever is fitted,' fays he, ' to excite Ideas of Pain and Danger, or operates in a Manner analogous to Terror, is a Source of the Sublime; that is, excites the ftrongcft Emotion which the Mind is capable of feeling.' .But furely this is falfe Philofophy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 328 sidor
...Selfprefervation. ' Whatever is fitted,' fays he, * to excite Ideas of Pain and Danger, or 'operates in 4 Manner analogous to Terror, is a Source of the Sublime ; that is, excites the ftrongeft Emotion which the Mind is capable of feeling.' But furely this is falie PhUofophy... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 sidor
...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 , 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 sidor
...excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to fay, whatever is in any fort terrible, or is converfant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a fource of the fublime ; that is, it is productive of the ftrongeft emotion which the mind is capable... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 sidor
...excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to fay, whatever is in any fort terrible, or is converfant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a fource of the fublime ; that is, it is productive of the ftrongeft emotion which the mind is capable... | |
 | James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - 1799 - 640 sidor
...mind • 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...any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objcfts, or opsrates in a manner analagous to terror, is a source of The Sublime ; that is, it is productive... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 sidor
...of Burke's account of qualities, may esteem some of his hypotheses incomplete. ' Whatever (says he) is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or 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... 
