 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...Sublime and Beautiful, These ideas the writer traces to the inspiration of terror. " Whatever," he says, "is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible...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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1874 - 734 pages
...attributes of destruction. "Whatever," he says, "is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain or danger — that is to say, whatever is in any sort...manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime. "f Again, "that power derives all its sublimity from the terror with which it is generally accompanied,... | |
 | 1882 - 436 pages
..."horrors!" Burke builds his theory of the sublime upon the same foundations. He says : — 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. Now this is entirely contrary to the teaching of Christianity,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 562 pages
...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, or operates in a manner 1 To prevent any interruption of the author's chain of reasoning, whatever remark may happen to occur... | |
 | Jeremiah Wesley Bray - 1898 - 364 pages
...natural, unless it abound also with such as are sublime. 1711. ADDISON, III., pp. ISO, 187. Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime. 1756. BURKE, I., p. 74. Those feelings are delightful when we have an idea of pain and danger without... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 pages
...pain and danger, and they are the unost powerful of all the passions. SECT. VII. — OF THE SUBLIME. 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 the ideas... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 468 pages
...and danger, and they are the most powerful of all the passions. SECT. 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 the ideas... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 pages
...danger, and they are the most powerful of all the passions. SECT. VII. — OF THE SUBLIME WHATEVER is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the strilime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.... | |
 | Fitz Roy Carrington - 1912 - 504 pages
...large parts of his enquiry, and in particular of the following definition 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. When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving... | |
 | Fitz Roy Carrington - 1912 - 608 pages
...large parts of his enquiry, and in particular of the following definition of the sublime: "Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain...to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it w productive of the strongest emotion which the mind il capable of feeling. When danger or pain press... | |
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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... 
