| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great in many cases loves the right line, and when it deviates it often makes a strong deviation...delicate; the great ought to be solid, and even massive. They are indeed ideas of a very different nature, one being founded on pain, the other on pleasure... | |
| 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,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 pages
...shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great in many cases loves the right line ; and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation...delicate ; the great ought to be solid, and even massive. They are indeed ideas of a very different nature, one being founded on pain, the other on pleasure... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 420 pages
...yet deviate from it insensibly: the great in many cases loves the right line, and when it de* viates, makes a strong deviation : beauty, should not be obscure...; the great ought to be solid, and even massive." This is the skeleton of Mr. Burke's s}rstem of the sublime and beautiful, and of the distinction between... | |
| sir Uvedale Price (bart.) - 1810 - 446 pages
...great, in many instances loves the right line, and when it deviates, often makes a strong deviation : beauty should be light and delicate; the great ought to be solid, and even massive/' These qualities, in stating which it appears from the general tenor of Mr. Burke's inquiry that fce had chiefly natural... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 460 pages
...great, in many instances loives the right line, and whea it deviates, often makes a strong deviation : beauty should be light and delicate; the great ought to be solid, and even massive/' These qualities, in stating which it appears from the general tenor of Mr. Burke's inquiry that he had chiefly natural... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 456 pages
...in many instaince* •loves the right line, and when it deviates, often makes a strong deviation : beauty should be light and delicate; the great ought to be solid, and even massive." These qualities, iti stating winch it -appears from the general tenor of Mr. Burke's inquiry that he 'had chiefly natural... | |
| William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 806 pages
...shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great, io many cases loves the right line, and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation...dark and gloomy ; beauty should be light and delicate j the great ought to be solid and even massive." These qualities of that which is sublime, well apply... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1826 - 510 pages
...shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great in many cases loves the right line ; and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation...ought to be dark and gloomy : beauty should be light an4 delicate ; the great ought to be solid, and even massive. They are indeed ideas of a very different... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great, in many cases, loves the right line ; and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation...delicate : the great ought to be solid, and even massive. They are, indeed, ideas of a very different nature, one being founded on pain, the other on pleasure... | |
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