 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...  An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste - Page 371by Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 471 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...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 and danger,...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
...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 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... | |
 | James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - Europe - 1799 - 640 pages
...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 and danger,...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... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...account of qualities, may esteem some of his hypotheses incomplete. ' Whatever (says he) is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger,...objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime/ That terror is a principal source, he very clearly demonstrates, and ingeniously... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 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 and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort tertible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terrpur, is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1815 - 362 pages
...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, and danger,...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 and danger,...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1823 - 446 pages
...and they are the most powerful of all the passions. SECTION VII. OF THE SUBLIME. 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...and they are the most powerful of all the passions. SECT. VII. — OP THE SUBLIME. 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, i» a source of... | |
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