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" For sublime objects are vast in their dimensions, beautiful ones comparatively small: beauty should be smooth and polished; the great, rugged and negligent: beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly; the great in many cases loves... "
The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography ... - Page 282
1838
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1764 - 458 pages
...negligent; beauty mould fhun the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly; the great in many cafes cafes loves the right line, and when it deviates, it often makes a ftrong deviation; beauty mould not be obfcure; the great ought to be dark and gloomy; beauty mould...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pages
...negligent: beauty fhould fhun the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly ; the great in many cafes loves the right line; and when it deviates, it often makes a ftrong deviation : beauty fhould not be obfcure ; the great ought to be dark and gloomy : beauty mould...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...negligent; beauty fhould fhun the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly; the great in many cafes loves the right line; and when it deviates, it often makes a ftrong deviation: beauty mould not be obfcure; the great ought to be dark and gloomy: beauty fhould...
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The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from ..., Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...negligent; beauty fhould fhun the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly; the great, in many cafrs, loves the right line; and when it deviates, it often makes a ftrong deviation: beauty fhould pot be obfcure; the great ought to be dark and, gloomy: beauty mould...
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The Life of Edmund Burke: Comprehending and Impartial Account of ..., Volume 1

Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pages
...beautiful ones comparatively small. Beauty should be smooth and polished ; the great, rugged and negligent. Beauty should not be obscure; the great ought to be...delicate; the great ought to be solid, and even massive. A great part of this enumeration is, no doubt, just. Most writers have resolved beauty into colour,...
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An Appeal to the Loyal Citizens of Dublin

Freeman of Dublin - 1800 - 674 pages
...negligent : beauty ihould fhun the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly : the great in many cafes loves the right line; and when it deviates, it often makes a ftrong deviation : beauty ihould not be obfcure ; the great ought to be dark and gloomy : beauty fliould...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...negligent ; beauty fhould Ihun the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly \ the great in many cafes loves the right line ; and when it deviates, it often makes a ftrong deviation : beauty fhould not be obfcure ; the great ought to be dark and gloomy : beauty mould...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 pages
...negligent ; beauty fhduid lliun the right line, yet deviate from it infenfibly ; the great in many cafes loves the right line } and when it deviates^ it often makes a ftrong deviation : beauty mould not be obfcure ; the great ought to be dark and gloomy : beauty fhould...
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The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 27

1806 - 738 pages
...negligent ; beauty fhould ihun the right line, yet deviates from it infenfibly ; the great, in many cafes, loves the right line, and when it deviates, it often makes a ftrong deviation ; beauty fhould not be obfcure, the gieat ought to be dark and gloomy ; beauty {hould...
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 27

1806 - 740 pages
...negligent ; beauty fhould fhun the right hue, yet deviates trom it infenfibly ; the great, in many cafes, loves the right line, and when it deviates, it often makes a ftrong deviation ; beauty fhould not be obfcure, the great ought to be dark and gloomy ; beauty fliould...
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