THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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Page 33
... represent him as a man , one partaking with us of the fame com- mon nature , and subject to the fame law . There is something so averse from our nature in these artificial political distinctions , that we need no other trumpet to kindle ...
... represent him as a man , one partaking with us of the fame com- mon nature , and subject to the fame law . There is something so averse from our nature in these artificial political distinctions , that we need no other trumpet to kindle ...
Page 104
... representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the fenfes , or in combining those images in a new manner , and according to a different 1 a different order . This power is called ...
... representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the fenfes , or in combining those images in a new manner , and according to a different 1 a different order . This power is called ...
Page 144
... fiction , the more perfect is its power . But be its power of what kind it will , it never approaches to what it represents . Choose a day on which to reprefent the the most fublime and affecting tragedy we have ; appoint 144 ON THE ...
... fiction , the more perfect is its power . But be its power of what kind it will , it never approaches to what it represents . Choose a day on which to reprefent the the most fublime and affecting tragedy we have ; appoint 144 ON THE ...
Page 163
... represents . I believe this excellent judge was led into this mistake ( if it be a mistake ) by his system , to which he found it more conformable than I ima- gine it will be found by experience . I know se- veral who admire and love ...
... represents . I believe this excellent judge was led into this mistake ( if it be a mistake ) by his system , to which he found it more conformable than I ima- gine it will be found by experience . I know se- veral who admire and love ...
Page 167
... represent it ? When painters have attempted to give us clear representations of these very fanciful and terrible ideas , they have , I think , almost always failed ; infomuch that I have been at a lofs , in all the pictures I have feen ...
... represent it ? When painters have attempted to give us clear representations of these very fanciful and terrible ideas , they have , I think , almost always failed ; infomuch that I have been at a lofs , in all the pictures I have feen ...
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