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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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From the Erotic to the Demonic : On Critical Musicology: On Critical Musicology

Derek B. Scott Chair of Music University of Salford - Music - 2003 - 270 pages
...'s thoughts on the sublime and beautiful, written in 1757, when aesthetic theory was in its infancy: 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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Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture

Carolyn Merchant - Nature - 2003 - 324 pages
...compared the sublime and the beautiful in terms of their power to evoke feelings of awe and appreciation: "Sublime objects are vast in their dimensions, beautiful...smooth, and polished; the great, rugged and negligent . . . the great ought to be dark and gloomy; beauty should be light and delicate; the great ought to...
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The Scenic Imagination: Originary Thinking from Hobbes to the Present Day

Literary Criticism - 2007 - 240 pages
...violence and its deferral are more crucial to our survival than (feminine) sympathy and beauty. 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 Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 574 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...beauty should be smooth and polished ; the great, nigged and negligent: beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great...
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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 574 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 ones comparatively small ; beauty should he smooth and polished ; the great, nigged and negligent : beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate...
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Understanding 'The Prelude'

W J B Owen - History - 2007 - 350 pages
...sentence, from the final section of this Part; it is a comparison between the sublime and the beautiful: 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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