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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 Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the ..., Volume 1

William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 806 pages
...rugged and negligent ; beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great, io many cases loves the right line, and when it deviates,...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...
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A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the ..., Volume 1

William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 666 pages
...rugged and negligent; beauty hould shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great, i many cases loves the right line, and when it deviates, it often makes strong deviation ; beauty should not be obscure ; the great ought to e dark and gloomy; beauty should...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1826 - 510 pages
...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...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...
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Descent of the Danube: From Ratisbon to Vienna, During the Autumn of 1827 ...

James Robinson Planché - 1828 - 354 pages
...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...the great • ought to be solid, and even massive." The substitution of the words " Khine" for " Beauty," and of " Danube" for " great," is nearly all...
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The Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle, Volume 3

1828 - 442 pages
...beauty should than the fight tine, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great, in many cases, lovei the right line, and when it deviates, it often makes a strong deviation : beauty should not lie obscure ; the great ought to be dart ami gloomy ; beauty should be light and delicate , the great...
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The Tourist: A Literary and Anti-slavery Journal, Volume 1

1833 - 370 pages
...should be smooth and polished ; the great, rugged and negligent: beauty should f>h»n the right line, yet deviate from It insensibly ; the great, in many cases, loves the right Kne ; and when it deviates, it often makes a strong donation: beauty should not be obscure ; the great...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pages
...beauty should be smooth and polished; the great, rugged and negligent; beauty shnnH shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly: the great in many cases loves the right line; am when it deviates, it often makes a stronsç deviation : beauty should not be obscure ; the p**t...
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The Young Lady's Book of Elegant Prose: Comprising Selections from the Works ...

1836 - 342 pages
...rugged and negligent: beauty should shun the right line, yet deviate from it insensibly ; the great, m many cases, loves the right line ; and when it deviates,...great ought to be solid, and even massive. They are, indced, ideas of a Tery different nature, one being founded on pain, the other on pleasure; and however...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a ..., Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 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. The author comes next to consider in what manner the sublime and beautiful are produced. As the sublime...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and ...

Edmund Burke - 1844 - 232 pages
...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...massive. They are, indeed, ideas of a very different Why is the examination of the similar pleasures of other senses the best way to establish a clear and...
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