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" I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts. "
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 79
by Edmund Burke - 1887
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...so happy as to have made any that are valuable. But to cut off all pretence for cavilling, I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those...connected with any particular theory. And my point in this inquiry is, to find whether there are any principles, on which the imagination is affected, so...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1764 - 458 pages
...pretence for caviling, I mean by the word Tafte no more than that faculty, or thofe faculties of the rnind which are affected with, or •which form a judgment...imagination and the elegant arts. This is, I think, the rnoft general idea of that word, and what is the leaft connected with any particular theory. And my...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1767 - 368 pages
...to cut off all pretence for caviU Hng, I mean by the word Tafte no more than that faculty, or thofe faculties of the mind which are affected with, or...imagination and the elegant arts. This is, I think, the moft general idea of that word, and what is the leaft connected with any particular theory, And my...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...to cut off all pretence for cavilling, I mean by the word Tafte no more than that faculty or thofe faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or...imagination and the elegant arts. This is, I think, the moft general idea of that word, and what is the leaft connected with any particular theory. And my...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...to cut off all pretence for cavilling, I mean by the word Tafte no more than that faculty or thofe faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or...imagination and the elegant arts. This is, I think, the moft general idea of that word, and what is the leaft connected with any particular theory. And my...
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The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from ..., Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...Tafte, no more than that faculty or thofe faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which forma judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts. This is, I think, the moft general idea of that word, and what is the leaft connected with any particular theory. And my...
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An Appeal to the Loyal Citizens of Dublin

Freeman of Dublin - Ireland - 1800 - 674 pages
...to cut off all pretence for cavilling, I mean by the word Tafle no more than that faculty or thofe faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or...imagination and the elegant arts. This is, I think, the moft general idea of that word, and what is the leaft connefted with any particular theory. And my...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 366 pages
...to cut off all pretence for cavilling, I mean by the word Tafte no more than that faculty or thofe faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or...imagination and the elegant arts. This is, I think, the moft general idea of that word, and what is the leaft connected with any particular theory. And my...
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Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature

Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...of both is the same in all human creatures. Taste, he defines " that faculty or those faculties in the mind, which are affected with, or which form a...of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts." He first examines the natural pleasures of SENSE ; which he shews to be the same in all, and that our...
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A Critical Dissertation on the Nature and Principles of Taste

Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - Aesthetics - 1823 - 438 pages
...from the object, with the beauty of which it made them acquainted. Thus Burke defines taste to be " that faculty, or those faculties of the mind which...of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts." Allison defines it : " that faculty of the human mind, by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful...
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