| James Robinson Planché - Danube River - 1828 - 350 pages
...rules he has laid down in the twenty-seventh section of his Third Part. " Sublime objects," says he, " are vast in their dimensions, beautiful ones comparatively...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... | |
| Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...subject : — _ Sublime objects (says lie) are vast in their dimensions ; beautiful ones compara lively small : beauty should be smooth and polished ; the great, rugged and negligent: beauty should f>h»n the right line, yet deviate from It insensibly ; the great, in many cases, loves the right Kne... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 748 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... | |
| Anthologies - 1834 - 506 pages
...thus generally stated in Mr. Burke's treatise on that subject : — " Sublime objects," says he, " are vast in their dimensions ; beautiful ones comparatively...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 - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...with the sublime ; and in this comparison there appears a remarkable contrast. For sublime objects arc cians, and so do the whole clan of the enlightened...essentially differ in these points. They have no respect for in ntany casée loves the right line ; and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation: beauty... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...remarkable contrast. For sublime objects агет«й in their dimensions, beautiful ones comparative!» small : beauty should be smooth and polished; the great, rugged and negligent; beauty shnnH shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly: the great in many cases loves the right... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...should compare it with the sublime; and in this comparison there appears a remarkable contrast. For anger in a generous cause: but, with or without right,...resource of the thinking and the good. The third head in many cases loves the right line ; and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation: beauty... | |
| American literature - 1836 - 342 pages
...is thus generally stated in Mr. Burke's treatise on that subject: — "Sublime objects," says he, " are vast in their dimensions ; beautiful ones comparatively...line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great, m many cases, loves the right line ; and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation : beauty... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...Sublime ; and in this comparison there appears_ a remarkable contrast. For sublime objects are vast j in their dimensions, beautiful ones comparatively...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 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... | |
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