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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... "
A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the Science ... - Page 527
by William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 638 pages
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The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 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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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 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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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...should compare it with the sublime; and in this comparison there appears a remarkable contrast. For tion, and in the transit bo smooth and polished ; the great, nigged and negligent ; beauty should shun the right ine, yet deviate...
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Works, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1865 - 572 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...
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Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both ...

Virginia Waddy - English language - 1889 - 432 pages
...given in the following lines by Burke: "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...
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Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both ...

Virginia Waddy - English language - 1889 - 432 pages
...given in the following lines by Burke: "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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The Philosophy of the Beautiful: Its history

William Angus Knight - Aesthetics - 1891 - 346 pages
...interest than his separate discussion of either of them. " Sublime objects," he says (pt. iii. p. 27), "are vast in their dimensions — beautiful ones comparatively...— the great rugged and negligent : beauty should show the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly — the great in many cases loves the right line,...
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The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 pages
...their dimensions, beautiful ones comparao tively small : beauty should be smooth and polished ; th« great, rugged and negligent : 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 s strong deviation : beauty...
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On Taste: On the Sublime and Beautiful; Reflections on the French Revolution

Edmund Burke - 1909 - 458 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...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 24

Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 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...
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