 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - English fiction - 1874 - 734 pages
...sort to excite the ideas of pain or danger — that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates...manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime. "f Again, "that power derives all its sublimity from the terror with which it is generally accompanied,... | |
 | George Mather (Wesleyan minister.) - 1874 - 176 pages
...strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling. I say the strongest emotion, because I am satisfied that the ideas of pain are much more powerful than those which enter on the part of pleasure."f Again he says, " The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when these causes... | |
 | Ferdinand Praeger - Composers - 1892 - 372 pages
...the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful." The personally well attested statement that "the ideas of pain are much more powerful than those which enter on the part of pleasure," was so well reasoned by Burke, that Wagner induced me to read the whole of that author's work to him.... | |
 | Jeremiah Wesley Bray - Criticism - 1898 - 360 pages
...any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates...analogous to — terror, is a source of the sublime. 1756. BURKE, I., p. 74. Those feelings are delightful when we have an idea of pain and danger without... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1909 - 472 pages
...any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates...powerful than those which enter on the part of pleasure. tWithout all doubt, the torments which we may be made to suffer are much greater in their effect on... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1909 - 498 pages
..."oTThe sublime** that is, it is productive of" the stioiigi:st emotion wiuch the mind is_caga-_ ble of feeling. I say the strongest emotion, because I...pain are much more powerful than those which enter jHL'.Tfie part of pleasure. Without all doubt, the torments which we may be made to suffer are much... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 pages
...any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates...in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the strilime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.... | |
 | Fitz Roy Carrington - Engravers - 1912 - 504 pages
...any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates...strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, PtRANESt. THE PRtSONS.... | |
 | Fitz Roy Carrington - Engravers - 1912 - 608 pages
...any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates...to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it w productive of the strongest emotion which the mind il capable of feeling. When danger or pain press... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - Authors, American - 1917 - 610 pages
...sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, — that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates...analogous to terror, — is a source of the Sublime. Indeed, terror is, in all cases whatsoever, either more openly or latently, the ruling principle of... | |
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Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is it is productive... 
