...Enquiry, Burke noted that "astonishment ... is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree," a "state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror." Likewise, fear is a passion that "robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning" (57). Using...

...Beautiful. Burke's original teaching on this subject links the sublime to pain and horror. According to Burke, "The passion caused by the great and sublime...all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror."1" Later he qualifies the requisite state as "delightful horror."19 "Delight" has a special...

...narrow the scope of the sublime to exclude squalid murder and severe football injury from its scope: 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...

...white and male, is overwhelmingly threatened by a fearsome power of alterity;6 freezes in astonishment ('that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror'; Burke, 1968: 57); then bounces back with renewed strength and vigor by making sense of the threatening...

...Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beauti/ul (1~fyf): 'The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature,...motions are suspended, with some degree of horror . . . Astonishment ... is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree; the inferior effects are...

...the subordinate degrees are awe, reverence, and respect.' Astonishment is further defined (p. 4) as 'that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror'. 16 as he contemplated . . . to pent ages: the power of a ruin to 'revive the memory of former times',...

...trepidation and exhilaration not unlike those accepted at the time as characteristic of the sublime: 'The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature,...causes operate most powerfully, is Astonishment'. 12 Yet this would have been a sublime experience which differed significantly from eighteenth-century...

...to Burke, this moment is registered by "astonishment," the limit response to the sublime in nature. "Astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror."44 In this state, Burke argues, human reasoning succumbs to and lags behind "the great power...

...bewildered self, whose peace of mind is threatened by the excess of power and terror it cannot master. The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature,...all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.'18 However, the sublime does not describe the moment of the arrival of danger, but rather the...

...to the reader. I quote it in full. The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when these causes operate most powerfully, is Astonishment; and...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...