 | Karin A. Wurst - Games & Activities - 2005 - 520 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...manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime ... it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling."4 Burke associated... | |
 | F. R. Ankersmit - History - 2005 - 510 pages
...any sort to excite the idea of pain and 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. ... So death is in general a much more affecting idea than pain; because there are very few pains,... | |
 | Harry Francis Mallgrave - Architecture - 2009 - 584 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.""1' His definition is not as startling as it may first appear. Such pain is only a surrogate... | |
 | Christopher Johnson - History - 2006 - 340 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, and are simply... | |
 | Jeffrey Ruoff - Performing Arts - 2006 - 316 pages
...the idea of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort of trouble, is conversant with terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous...strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling" (Burke [1792] 1925: 55). The destructive forces of nature, central features of the sublime, provide... | |
 | Jan Godderis - Lesbians - 2006 - 468 pages
...excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conuersant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous...terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productiue of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. I say the strongest emotion,... | |
 | John Wilson Foster - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 316 pages
...the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or conversant with terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime.' It is something for a man to be able to walk from his own door to his place of worship without being... | |
 | John Wilson Foster - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 255 pages
...the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or conversant with terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime.1 It is something for a man to be able to walk from his own door to his place of worship without... | |
 | Mark Evan Bonds - Music - 2009 - 208 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 in a manner analogous to terror." Burke, whose writings circulated widely in German-speaking lands in the second half of the eighteenth... | |
 | Cynthia Wall - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 331 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 in a manner analogous to terror," and he specifically connects the sublime with power and the masculine, comparing our feelings toward... | |
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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... 
