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" When any object, either of sublimity or beauty, is presented to the mind, 1 believe every man is conscious of a train of thought being immediately awakened in his imagination, analogous to the character or expression of the original object. "
Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste - Page 4
by Archibald Alison - 1815 - 447 pages
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Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, Volume 1

Archibald Alison - Aesthetics - 1812 - 442 pages
...not perhaps as generally understood in what it consists, or what is the nature of that effect which is produced upon the imagination, by objects of sublimity...this effect, or, in what that exercise of imagination con3 ' «ists, which is so generally supposed to take place, when these emotions are felt. When any...
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The General Repository, Volume 3

Andrews Norton - Periodicals - 1813 - 424 pages
...metaphysical discussion relieved, by a passage of so much richtfess and ekgance of expression. • • "When any object, either of sublimity or beauty, is presented to the mind, I believe every man is conscious of a train of thought being immediately awakened in his imagination,...
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The English Orator: a Selection of Pieces for Reading & Recitation

James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...of mind, is considered as synonymous with the expression of a similar deficiency in point of taste. When any object, either of sublimity or beauty is presented to the mind, every man is conscious of a train of thought being immediately awakened in his imagination, analogous...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 24

1842 - 530 pages
...what follows we shall confine ourselves to the explanation of taste in its restricted or proper sense. When any object either of sublimity or beauty is presented to the mind, we are conscious of a train of thought being immediately awakened analogous to the character or expression...
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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

1842 - 528 pages
...what follows we shall confine ourselves to the explanation of taste in its restricted or proper sense. When any object either of sublimity or beauty is presented to the mind, we are conscious of a train of thought being immediately awakened analogous to the character or expression...
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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volume 24

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 540 pages
...what follows we shall confine ourselves to the explanation of taste in its restricted or proper sense. When any object either of sublimity or beauty is presented to the mind, we are conscious of a train ot thought being immediately awakened analogous to the character or expression...
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Arts and Sciences: Or, Fourth Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Volume 8

Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 552 pages
...what follows we shall confine ourselves to the explanation of taste in its restricted or proper sense. When any object either of sublimity or beauty is presented to the mind, we are conscious of a train of thought being immediately awakened analogous to the character or expression...
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The English Cyclopaedia

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 548 pages
...what follows we shall confine ourselves to the explanation of taste in its restricted or proper sense. y m p # IS q ZMc;7, p r2 S = L ^ ~ < | c շ <G w we are conscious of a train of thought being immediately awakened analogous to the character or expression...
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The Scottish Philosophy: Biographical, Expository, Critical, from Hutcheson ...

James McCosh - Philosophy, Scottish - 1875 - 506 pages
...are productive of it, or, in other words, the sources of the beautiful and sublime in nature. I. " When any object either of sublimity or beauty is presented to the mind, I believe man is conscious of a train of thought being immediately awakened in his imagination analogous...
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Versuch über Alison's ästhetik, darstellung und kritik: ein beitrag zur ...

Constantin Fedeles - Aesthetics - 1911 - 88 pages
...die Einbildungskraft durch schöne und erhabene Gegenstände affiziert? Worin besteht ihre Wirkung? „When any object, either of sublimity or beauty, is presented to the mind, I believe every man is conscious of a train of thought being immediately awakened in his Imagination,...
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