 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...degree. SECT. IV. OF THE DIFFEBENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to...If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear idea of those objects ; but then (allowing for the effect of imitation,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1764 - 458 pages
...degree. SECT. IV. J Of the difference between CLEARNESS and OBSCURITY with regard to the paffions. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it offering to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landfcape, I prefent... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1776 - 368 pages
...SECT. IV. . , Of the difference between CLEARNESS and OBSCURITY with regard to the paffions. . • IT is one thing to make an idea clear* and another to...drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landfcape, .1 prefent a very clear idea of thofe objects ; but then (allowing for the effect of imitation, which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1787 - 368 pages
...degree. SECT. IV. Of the difference between CLEARNESS and OBSCURITY with regard to the paffions. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to...for the effect of imitation, which is fomething) my picture can at moft affect only as the palace, H 3 temple, temple, or landfcape, would have affected... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1787 - 482 pages
...indiftinct, the imprcfliorf; however, may be great ; for, as an ingenious Author has well obferved, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make iC affecting to the imagination ; and the imagination may be ftrongly affected, and, in fact, often... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...hlack hejlood as night ; Fierce as ten furies; terrihle as hell\ Andjhook a deadly dart. What feem!d his head The likenefs of a kingly crown had on. In...idea of thofe objects; but then (allowing for the effedl: of imitation, which is fomething) my picture can at moft affect only as the palace, temple,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...indiftindt, the impreffion, however, may be great ; for, as an ingenious author has well obferyed, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination ; and the imagination may be flrongly affected, and, in fact, often is fo, by objects of which we have... | |
 | 1796 - 784 pages
...indiftinft, the impreflion, however, may be great ; tor, as an ingenious author has well obferved, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination ; and the imagination may be ftrongly affeded, and, in fa ft, often is fo, by objeûs of which we have... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - Ireland - 1800 - 674 pages
...degree. SECT. SECT. IV. Of the difference between CLEARNESS and OBSCURITY with regard to the paffions. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to...landfcape, I prefent a very clear idea of thofe objects j but then (allowing for the effect of imitation, which is fomething) my picture can at moft affect... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 366 pages
...degree. SECT. IV. OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to...landfcape, I prefent a very clear idea of thofe objects £ butthen (allowing for the effect of imitation, which is fomething) my picture can at moft affect... | |
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IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear idea of those objects; but... 
