 Of the Passion Caused by the Sublime The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 128by Edmund Burke - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1767 - 368 pages
...foul, in which all its motions are fufpended, with fome degree of horror *. In this cafe the mind is fo entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by confequence reafon on that object which employs it. Hence arifes the great power of the fublime, that... | |
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...bowed him out of the room. t Burke " On the Sublime and Beautiful," p. 33. is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended with some degree of horror." Before attempting to controvert this opinion, it is only fair to say that he admits, that while astonishment... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...foul, in which all its motions are fufpended, with fome degree of horror *. In this cafe the mind is fo entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by confequence reafon on that object which employs it. Hence arifcs the great power of the fublime, that,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...in which all Jfs motions are fufpended, with fome degree of horror *. In. *&is cafe the mind is fo entirely filled with its object, that it Cannot entertain any other, nor by confequence reafon on that object which employs it. Hence arifes the great power of the fublime, that,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 366 pages
...foul, in which all its motions are fufpended, with fome degree of horrour.* In thiscafe the mind Is fo entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by confequence reafon on that object which employs it. Hence arifes the great power of the fublime, that*... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 448 pages
...those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended with some degree of horror: the sublime also, being founded on ideas of pain and terror, like them operates by stretching the fibres... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 886 pages
..."the passion raised by the sublime is astonishment, and that astonishment is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended with some degree of horror," surely a more sublime spectacle was never presented to mortal eyes, than that which was on this occasion... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horrour.* 8 ) *fXG% 5 +` q 3^ y 3 MݸOS ! `9ė+ X Ц cannot entertain any other, DOT by consequence reason on that object which employs it. Hence arises... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horrour.* which, however lawful, is not reconcileable to any ideas of liberty, much emerrain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which emplovs it. Hence arises the great... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1844 - 232 pages
...astonishment is that statg_ of the soul in which all its motions are suspended .seith. some 5?S££^_?^ horror.* In this case, the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it can not entertain any other, nor, by consequence, reason on that object which employs it. Hence arises... | |
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