 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - Liczba stron: 520
...VIII. INFINITY. ANOTHER source of the sublime is infinity ; if it does not rather belong to the last. Infinity has a tendency to fill the mind with that sort of delightful horrour, which is the most genuine effect, and truest test of the sublime. There are scarce any things... | |
 | Liczba stron: 206
...ii'gloom, a sulky stupidity. "Another great source of the Sublime is infinity, — " which" says Burke " has a tendency to fill the mind with that sort of delightful horror, which is the inost genuine effect ar.d truest test of the Sublime." (Page 2 Sec. 25.) tn this respect it is difficult... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1823 - Liczba stron: 446
...VIII. INFINITY. ANOTHER source of the sublime is Infinity; if it does not rather belong to the last. Infinity has a tendency to fill the mind with that...most genuine effect, and truest test of the sublime. There are scarce any things which can become the objects of our senses, that are really and in their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - Liczba stron: 194
...IX.— INFINITY. ANOTHER source of this sublime is Infinity: if it does not rather belong to the last. Infinity has a tendency to fill the mind with that...most genuine effect and truest test of the sublime. There are scarce any things which can become the objects of our senses, that are really and in their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - Liczba stron: 744
...— INFINITY. ANOTHER source of the sublime is Infinity ; if it does not rather belong to the last. Infinity has a tendency to fill the mind with that sort of delightful horrour, which is the most genuine effect and truest test of the sublime. There are scarce any things... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - Liczba stron: 648
...rather belong to the lost. Infinity has a tendency to nil the mind with that sort of delightful hnrrour, n the opinion of ewh men as I have mentioned, have no substantial There are scarce any things which can become the objects of our senses, that are really and in their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - Liczba stron: 652
...SECTION VIH. AJTOTHER source of the sublime is inßnity i if it does not rather belong to the last. laves of the whole community, and of every part of it ; and the worst borrour, which is the most genuine effect, and truest test of the sublime. There are scarce any things... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - Liczba stron: 744
...— INFINITY. ANOTHER source of the sublime is Infinity ; if it does not rather belong to the last. that part of it which comes within my reach. I know my inability, an horrour, which is the most genuine effect and truest test of the sublime. There are scarce any things... | |
 | 1842 - Liczba stron: 546
...no feeling of danger can be found to exist Infinity and eternity are sublime ; but although, as be says, ' infinity has a tendency to fill the mind with...Helvetius says, ' When God said, " Let there be light, and there was light :" this image is sublime. But should such an image inspire fear ? Yes ; because it... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1842 - Liczba stron: 536
...danger can he found to exist. Infinity and eternity are sublime ; but although, as he says, ' inanity has a tendency to fill the mind with that sort of...fill the mind with horror ; it may or may not, but in cither case it is sublime. Helvetius says, ' When God said, " Let there be light, and there was light... | |
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ANOTHER source of the sublime is infinity ; if it does not rather belong to the last, (infinity has a tendency to fill the mind with that sort of delightful horror, which is the most genuine effect, and truest test of the sublime. 
