...the most miserable of prisons"; and with a sharp critique of Burke 's aesthetic ideology, he adds, "His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy-victim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of mystery, sinking into death in the silence of the dungeon." Smith, with equivocal sympathy for emigrant...

...Burke than he has to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching upon his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination....nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy -victim, expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence...

...Oscar Wilde, in conversation He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination....He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Thomas Paine, of Edmund Burke, in The Rights of Man Andre Malraux, the French writer and politician,...

...Revolution Burke was deserting his principles. Paine, in The Rights of Man, had denounced him as a courtier, "accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself"; and when the Duke of Bedford made his unpleasant remarks on the pension, he must have thought his quarry...

...distress touching his heart but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pit ¡es the plumage but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath parloined him from himself. he degenerates into a composition of art, and the gennine soal of nature...

...employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. . . . He degenerates into a composition of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. . . . The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of Nature. . . . The example [of American...

...of substitute reality, an imaginative world to be accessed via hippogriffs and flying sentry boxes. "Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself," Paine writes of Burke, "he degenerates into a composition of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes...

...political actuality, so that 'He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination....He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. ... His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy-victim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of...

..."inborn," "natural" tragic sensibility that Paine, in the Rights of Man, sarcastically describes him as "accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself," for such claims were a kind of absurd self-denial from such an obviously self-made man. Through such...

...is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it in striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but...or his heroine must be a tragedy-victim expiring in a show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon."2 A wealth...