 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...should compare it with the sublime ; and in this comparison there appears a remarkable contrast. For sublime objects are vast in their dimensions, beautiful...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... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...even, smooth, and weak. Thus there is a remarkable contrast between the beautiful and the sublime: sublime objects are vast in their dimensions; beautiful...polished ; the great, rugged and negligent. Beauty should not be obscure; the great ought to be dark and gloomy. Beauty should be light and delicate; the great... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...should compare it with the sublime ; and in this comparison there appears a remarkable contrast. For sublime objects are vast in their dimensions, beautiful...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... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 420 pages
...most satisfactory, by copying Mr. Burke's own comparison of them with the qualities of the sublime. " Sublime objects are vast in their dimensions ; beautiful...right line, yet deviate from it insensibly: the great in many cases loves the right line, and when it de* viates, makes a strong deviation : beauty, should... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Aesthetics - 1810 - 420 pages
...most satisfactory, by copying Mr. Burke's own comparison of them with the qualities of the sublime. " Sublime objects are vast in their dimensions ; beautiful...right line, yet deviate from it insensibly: the .great in many cases loves the right line, and when it <\evjates, makes ,p, strong deviation : beauty, should... | |
 | sir Uvedale Price (bart.) - 1810 - 446 pages
...Burke, there appears a remarkable contrast. For sublinieobjccts are vast in their dimensions ; beautifuj ones comparatively small : beauty should be smooth...line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great, in many instances loves the right line, and when it deviates, often makes a strong deviation : beauty... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 456 pages
...there appeal a feiftarkable tebritrast. For snblime objects fete vast in their ^intensions ; fcea&tiful ones comparatively small : beauty should be smooth and polished; the 'great, rugged and ;negtogenl: beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; tlhe great, in many... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 460 pages
...those of the sublime. "In this comparison. 237 says Mr. Burke, there appears a remarkable contrast. For sublime objects are vast in their dimensions ; beautiful ones comparatively small : beauty should foe smooth and polished; the great, rugged and negligent: beauty should show the right line, yet deviate... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1817 - 680 pages
...outlines there is something iudiscribably delightful, and they present that rare union of the sublime and beautiful of which no better idea can be formed,...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...should compare it with the sublime ; and in this comparison there appears a remarkable contrast ; for sublime objects are vast in their dimensions, beautiful...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... | |
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For sublime objects are vast in their dimensions, beautiful ones comparatively small : beauty should be smooth and polished ; the great, rugged and negligent; beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly; the great in many cases loves... 
