The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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Edmund Burke. of proceeding I should think very improper . The task would be infinite , if we could establish no principle until we had previously unravelled the complex texture of every image or description to be found in poets and ...
Edmund Burke. of proceeding I should think very improper . The task would be infinite , if we could establish no principle until we had previously unravelled the complex texture of every image or description to be found in poets and ...
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... 268 XI . The artificial Infinite - - 270 XII . The Vibrations must be similar - - 272 XIII . The effects of Succession in visual objects explained - - 273 SECT . PAGE considered XV . XIV . Locke's Opinion 92 CONTENTS . PAGE.
... 268 XI . The artificial Infinite - - 270 XII . The Vibrations must be similar - - 272 XIII . The effects of Succession in visual objects explained - - 273 SECT . PAGE considered XV . XIV . Locke's Opinion 92 CONTENTS . PAGE.
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... infinite variety of causes , which give rise to madness : but this at most can only prove , that the passion of love is capable of producing very extraordinary effects , not that its extraordinary emotions have any connection with ...
... infinite variety of causes , which give rise to madness : but this at most can only prove , that the passion of love is capable of producing very extraordinary effects , not that its extraordinary emotions have any connection with ...
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... to him , nor unproductive to ourselves of that noble and uncommon union of science and admiration , which a contemplation of the works of infinite wisdom alone can afford to a rational mind ; whilst wisdom 152 ON THE SUBLIME.
... to him , nor unproductive to ourselves of that noble and uncommon union of science and admiration , which a contemplation of the works of infinite wisdom alone can afford to a rational mind ; whilst wisdom 152 ON THE SUBLIME.
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... infinite attention , by what a disregard of every perishable object , through what long habits of piety and contemplation it is , any man is able to attain an entire love and devotion to the Deity , will easily perceive , that it is not ...
... infinite attention , by what a disregard of every perishable object , through what long habits of piety and contemplation it is , any man is able to attain an entire love and devotion to the Deity , will easily perceive , that it is not ...
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Page 161 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 248 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 187 - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 166 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Page 141 - IT is by the first of these passions that we enter into the concerns of others; that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost any thing which men can do or suffer.
Page 158 - No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain. Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror, be endued with greatness of dimensions or not; for it is impossible to look on any thing as trifling, or contemptible, that may be dangerous.
Page 165 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 174 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8.
Page 171 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free ? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass ? Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 317 - This idea or this affection caused by a word, which nothing but a word could annex to the others, raises a very great degree of the sublime ; and this sublime is raised yet .higher by what follows, a "universe of Death.