The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Great Britain |
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Page 49
... image of a sort of complex Nero ? And does it not strike you with the greater horrour , when you observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into the same mean and ...
... image of a sort of complex Nero ? And does it not strike you with the greater horrour , when you observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into the same mean and ...
Page 86
... image or description to be found in poets and orators . And though we should never be able to reconcile the effect of such images to our principles , this can never overturn the theory itself , whilst it is founded on certain and ...
... image or description to be found in poets and orators . And though we should never be able to reconcile the effect of such images to our principles , this can never overturn the theory itself , whilst it is founded on certain and ...
Page 93
... V. Examples , that Words may affect without raising Images 308 VI . Poetry not strictly an imative art VII . How Words influence the Passions 316 - ibid . INTRODUCTION . ON TASTE . N a superficial view , CONTENTS . 93.
... V. Examples , that Words may affect without raising Images 308 VI . Poetry not strictly an imative art VII . How Words influence the Passions 316 - ibid . INTRODUCTION . ON TASTE . N a superficial view , CONTENTS . 93.
Page 99
... images of things , this scepti- cal proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical reasoning itself which had persuaded us to enter- tain a doubt concerning the agreement of our ...
... images of things , this scepti- cal proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical reasoning itself which had persuaded us to enter- tain a doubt concerning the agreement of our ...
Page 104
... images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses , or in combining those images in a new manner , and according to a different a different order . This power is called imagina- tion 104 INTRODUCTION :
... images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses , or in combining those images in a new manner , and according to a different a different order . This power is called imagina- tion 104 INTRODUCTION :
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