| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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