The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].F. & C. Rivington, 1803 |
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Página 155
... observations confidered in themselves ; and I never should have taken the pains to digeft them , much lefs fhould I have ever ventured to publish them , if I was not convinced that nothing tends more to the corrup tion of science than ...
... observations confidered in themselves ; and I never should have taken the pains to digeft them , much lefs fhould I have ever ventured to publish them , if I was not convinced that nothing tends more to the corrup tion of science than ...
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... observed , that young perfons , little acquainted with the world , and who have not been used to approach men in power , are commonly ftruck with an awe which takes away the free ufe of their faculties . When I prepared my feat in the ...
... observed , that young perfons , little acquainted with the world , and who have not been used to approach men in power , are commonly ftruck with an awe which takes away the free ufe of their faculties . When I prepared my feat in the ...
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... observed , that on mi- micking the looks and geftures of angry , or placid , or frighted , or daring men , I have involuntarily found my mind turned to that paffion , whose ap- pearance I endeavoured to imitate ; nay , I am convinced it ...
... observed , that on mi- micking the looks and geftures of angry , or placid , or frighted , or daring men , I have involuntarily found my mind turned to that paffion , whose ap- pearance I endeavoured to imitate ; nay , I am convinced it ...
Página 270
... observe , that an inveftigation of the natural and mechanical caufes of our paffions , besides the curiofity of the fubject , gives , if they are discover- ed , ed , a double ftrength and luftre to any rules 270 ON THE SUBLIME The ...
... observe , that an inveftigation of the natural and mechanical caufes of our paffions , besides the curiofity of the fubject , gives , if they are discover- ed , ed , a double ftrength and luftre to any rules 270 ON THE SUBLIME The ...
Página 278
... observe , that the ideas of darknefs and blackness are much the fame ; and they differ only in this , that blackness is a more confined idea . Mr. Chefelden has given us a very curious ftory of a boy , who had been born blind , and ...
... observe , that the ideas of darknefs and blackness are much the fame ; and they differ only in this , that blackness is a more confined idea . Mr. Chefelden has given us a very curious ftory of a boy , who had been born blind , and ...
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Página 248 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Página 93 - ON a superficial view, we may seem to differ very widely from each other in our reasonings, and no less in our pleasures ; but, notwithstanding this difference, which I think to be rather apparent than real, it is probable that the standard both of Reason and Taste is the same in all human creatures...
Página 158 - To make any thing very terrible, obscurity* seems, in general, to be necessary. When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes.
Página 143 - Choose a day on which to represent the most sublime and affecting tragedy we have ; appoint the most favourite actors ; spare no cost upon the scenes and decorations ; unite the greatest efforts of poetry, painting, and music; and when you have collected your audience, just at the moment when their minds are erect with expectation, let it be reported that a state criminal of high rank is on the point of being executed in the adjoining square ; in a moment the emptiness of the theatre would demonstrate...
Página 148 - Now whatever either on good or upon bad grounds tends to raise a man in his own opinion, produces a sort of swelling and triumph that is extremely grateful to the human mind; and this swelling is never more perceived, nor operates with more force, than when without danger we are conversant with terrible objects, the mind always claiming to itself some part of the dignity and importance of the things which it contemplates.
Página 96 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts.
Página 251 - ... beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly; the great in many cases loves the right line; and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation: beauty should not be obscure; the great ought to be dark and gloomy: beauty should be light and delicate; the great ought to be solid, and even massive.
Página 241 - First, to be comparatively small. Secondly, to be smooth. Thirdly, to have a variety in the direction of the parts ; but, fourthly, to have those parts not angular, but melted as it were into each other. Fifthly, to be of a delicate frame, without any remarkable appearance of strength. Sixthly, to have its colours clear and bright, but not very strong and glaring. Seventhly, or if it should have any glaring colour, to have it diversified with others.
Página 179 - Infinity has a tendency to fill the mind with that sort of delightful horror, which is the most genuine effect, and truest test of the sublime. There are scarce any things which can become the objects of our senses that are really, and in their own nature infinite. But the eye not being able to perceive the bounds of many things, they seem to be infinite, and they produce the same effects as if they were really so.
Página 116 - I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most excellent performances of genius, which I felt at that age, from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.