...of imagination consists, which is so generally supposed to take place, when these emotions are felt. When any object, either of sublimity or beauty, is...expression of the original object. The simple perception Bf the object, we frequently find, is insufficient to excite these emotions, unless it is accompanied...

...die Einbildungskraft durch schöne und erhabene Gegenstände affiziert? Worin besteht ihre Wirkung? „When any object, either of sublimity or beauty,...the character or expression of the original object. " (S. 4.) Die bloße Vorstellung also, ohne die Begleitung von Ässoziationsreihen, ist nicht hinreichend,...

...succinct expression of the theory appeared in Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste (1790): When any object, either of sublimity or beauty, is presented to the mind, 1 believe every man is conscious of a train of thought being immediately awakened in his imagination,...

...the mind,' explained the Scot Archibald Alison later, in 179o, in his development of similar themes, 'I believe every man is conscious of a train of thought...the character or expression of the original object.' 41 Lockean associationism Alison's 'constant connection between the sign and the thing signified' -...

...primarily defined by imaginative experiences, involving emotions like terror (see chapters 9 and 13). 'When any object, either of sublimity or beauty is presented to the mind,' explained the Scot Archibald Alison later, in 1790, in his development of similar themes, 'I believe...

...For Alison, feelings of beauty or sublimity are complex, not simple, and the effect of association: 'The simple perception of the object, we frequently...find, is insufficient to excite these emotions, unless [. . .] our imagination is seized, and our fancy busied in the pursuit of all those trains of thought,...

...that such emotions are not produced by their objects immediately, but only by trains of associations: When any object, either of sublimity or beauty, is...thought being immediately awakened in his imagination. . . .The simple perception of the object, we frequently f1nd, is insufficient to excite these emotions,...

...lateeighteenth-century British aesthetician, best characterizes this associationist aesthetic theory: When any object, either of sublimity or beauty, is...the character or expression of the original object." For example, according to Alison, the valley of Vaucluse (residence of Petrarch), the field of Agincourt,...

...basis of Burke's view in 1757. His definitions of sublimity and beauty were essentially sensationist.30 'When any object, either of sublimity or beauty is presented to the mind', Alison explained in 1790, 'I believe every man is conscious of a train of thought being immediately...