...Ambrosio is, in effect, the Burkean spectator as castigated by Paine, distracted by plumage and 'not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination'.58 Lewis spells out the prurient voyeurism of this kind of spectatorship, which both Burke...

...when he says in the Rights of Man that Burke is "not affected by the reality of distress touching upon his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination" and concludes that Burke "pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird."" Wollstonecraft's first...

..."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...

...1 1 1 Paine, Rights of Man, p. 45. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He 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 forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss...

...retorted: 'the genuine soul of nature has forsaken her'.18 The reference to Paine's attack on Burke ('Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that...art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him') is immediately seized upon by Merry: 'What a beautiful expression is that of Paine!' said Mr. Merry;...

...by the reality of distress touching upon his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking on his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets...himself, he degenerates into a composition of art. . . . His hero or heroine must be a tragedy victim, expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of...

...talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he has been to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart,...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird." Now there is an element of truth in Paine's charge, but there is distortion also. To say that Burke...

...whole passage is held by some to be a piece of false sentiment. Paine for example writes, " He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart,...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird,. ..His hero or heroine must be a tragedy victim, expiring in show; and not the real prisoner of misery,...

..."Nature," says Paine, "has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. Ho is not affected by the realities of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance...He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird." A writer thus known to the American people not only as the champion of their individual rights, but...

...employing his talents to corrupt himaelf. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than lie is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking hia imagination. Hepitia the plumage but forgett the dying bird." It is clear that Shelley took the...