 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...-willing to give a peaceful entrance to truth. PART II. SECTION I. OP THE PASSION CAUSED BY THE SUBLIME. THE passion caused by the great and sublime in nature,...all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.1 In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any... | |
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...want a, jeweller ; " and bowed him out of the room. t Burke " On the Sublime and Beautiful," p. 33. is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended with some degree of horror." Before attempting to controvert this opinion, it is only fair to say that he admits, that while astonishment... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...IDEAS OP THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL. PART II. SECTION I. OF THE PASSION CAUSED BY THE SUBLIME. 1 HE passion caused by the great and sublime in nature,...all its motions are suspended, with some degree of liorrour.* In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 520 pages
...II. SECTION I. OF THE PASSION CAUSED BY THE SUBLIME. JL HE passion caused by the great and sublim* in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully,...all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horrour.* In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1823 - 446 pages
...OF OUR IDEAS OF THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL. PART II, SECTION I. OF THE PASSION CAUSED BY THE SUBLIME. THE passion caused by the great and sublime in nature,...motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.* In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 886 pages
...the Sublime and Beautiful affirms, that "the passion raised by the sublime is astonishment, and that astonishment is that state of the soul in which all...motions are suspended with some degree of horror," surely a more sublime spectacle was never presented to mortal eyes, than that which was on this occasion... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 510 pages
...OF OUR IDEAS OF THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL. PART II. SECTION I. OF THE PASSION CAUSED BY THE SUBLIME. THE passion caused by the great and sublime in nature,...all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horrouiv* In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...willing to give a peaceful entrance to truth. PART II. t. I. — OF THE PASSION CAUSED BY THE SUBLIME. THE passion caused by the great and sublime in nature,...motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.* In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...to give a peaceful entrance to truth. PART II. SECTION I. — OF THE PASSION CAUSED BY THE SUBLIME. THE passion caused by the great and sublime in nature,...all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horrour.* In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...II.— SECTION 1. OF THE PASSION CAUSED BY THE SUBLIME. THE passion caused by the great and : ul,Kme in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully,...all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horrour.* In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot emerrain any... | |
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THE passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment : and astonishment is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. 
