The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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Page 41
... image of a sort of complex Nero ? And does it not strike you with the greater horror , when you observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into the same mean and ...
... image of a sort of complex Nero ? And does it not strike you with the greater horror , when you observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into the same mean and ...
Page 71
... image or description to be found in poets and ora- tors . And though we should never be able to rec- oncile the effect of such images to our principles , this can never overturn the theory itself , whilst it is founded on certain and ...
... image or description to be found in poets and ora- tors . And though we should never be able to rec- oncile the effect of such images to our principles , this can never overturn the theory itself , whilst it is founded on certain and ...
Page 78
... 250 V. Examples that Words may affect without raising Images • • VI . Poetry not strictly an Imitative Art VII . How Words influence the Passions . · 252 257 · 258 INTRODUCTION . ON ON TASTE . Na superficial view we 78 CONTENTS .
... 250 V. Examples that Words may affect without raising Images • • VI . Poetry not strictly an Imitative Art VII . How Words influence the Passions . · 252 257 · 258 INTRODUCTION . ON ON TASTE . Na superficial view we 78 CONTENTS .
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... images of things , this scep- tical proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical reasoning itself which had persuaded us to entertain a doubt concerning the agreement of our ...
... images of things , this scep- tical proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical reasoning itself which had persuaded us to entertain a doubt concerning the agreement of our ...
Page 86
... power of its own ; either in representing at pleasure the im- ages of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses , or in combining those images in a new manner , and according to a 86 INTRODUCTION .
... power of its own ; either in representing at pleasure the im- ages of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses , or in combining those images in a new manner , and according to a 86 INTRODUCTION .
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